Recent content by Stokkie

If anyone is mobile then https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk in Bradford is the place to see historic cameras. All the best photographs have gone to the V&A. The quality of a good lens and plate camera was outstanding. I would like to see a decent photography collection on display in...

More on the Lancaster Watch Camera here. Rare Historical Photos Someone has a men's version on EBay for £42K!! The petite lady's version is really scarce. Ebay has lots of examples of Instantograph folding cameras for a couple of hundred pounds. They would probably need new light-tight bellows...

The Lancaster Watch Camera is very collectable and can fetch ridiculous sums at auction. 18K - 30K euro. condition is everything. CameraWorth.

Harry Mason (I can read his name on the picture) makes beer pumps and dispensing equipment. They are established for 60 years (or 200 years according to their own website!) Currently at 217 Thimble Mill Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B7 5HS. I don't know if there is any connection with Titus Mason the...

On sunny days young people will sit outside on the benches and tables. I'm not so sure about the numbers though and I only visit the Woodman these days if there is an event in the upstairs room. I think that some young people drink sparingly or not at all.

And another thread here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/lancaster-makers-of-cameras.58468/

Belated Happy Birthday Jean. Hope you can enjoy the Bank Holiday sunshine!

But as I posted #50 September 2022 it was known that Curzon Street Hub wasn't due to open until 2033 - this date seems to be 2039 now. But there is an awful lot of building work to be done before then. The construction of Curzon Square and the Station complex itself. Students in term time and...

BOY LAYS THE GHOST It Was a Lamp Shining on Tombstones By climbing a street lamp-post and obscuring the light with his coat, a boy succeeded last night in laying the 'liveliest ghost that has troubled the Black Country for many a day. Each night this week there has been talk of spectres in...

The cemetery concerned would be Oldbury Cemetery.

Sorry Trabo, I found these by searching Calmview for 'Hurst Street Subway'. Screenshot of results. Alas Birmingham Archives are tricky to use. You will need an Archives Card (which you can use in many UK archives). Then you need an appointment at the Wolfson Centre. But once you have these the...

Birmingham Archives have photographs from 1961. These are not digitised though. I don't know if this is any use to you. https://calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx Stokkie

Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham …, ed. C. Fowler, vol. 1, Surtees Society Publications 99 (1898). This is a Victorian transcript. (1324-5) : Pro vxx et viij ulnis panni de Berm' pro ix robis [etc.]. (1342-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc. 99171 : vxx uln. de albo Bermegeham pr...

The first surviving documentary record of Birmingham is in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as the small manor of Bermingeham, worth 20 shillings. (Wikipedia) Text is Medieval Latin with the place name presumably rendered phonetically.