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One source says… The original painting is usually titled “Rednal Terminus – Route 70” or “The Lickey Tram”, and was produced around...

Postcard on Ebay. From a painting by Robert K. Calvert the well known transport artist. Said to be 1952. Was that just before the tram...

On the enclosure map you listed on post 155 above, the old pool [later Moseley Bog] is sandwiched between Swanshurst Common and Moseley...

Re: Moseley Bog. The name on the gate from Yardley Wood Road is "Moseley Bog and Joy's Wood" in memory of Joy Fifer. (Couldn't find...

Where you do see Gracewell Cottages surrounded is by the sandpit and the very long gardens of Victorian houses beyond it. Part of these...

Really sad about this for the proud residents of Sutton Coldfield. I've always felt very strongly that the place for local heritage...

Interesting post. Yes, Sarehole Mill was operating in the 16thC and possibly even earlier. Sarehole and Wake Green were both owned by...

The Enclosure map below clarifies the boundary of Wake Green, which did not wrap around Old Pool, as might be guessed from the...

Could it be the "Model Aerodrome" company who made the "Drome" range of flying model aircraft? - There offices were at 144 Stratford...

What a cracking photograph. Can identify many of the properties in other posts above starting from St Chads Convent on the extreme left...

Thank you for posting this. It is how it would have looked when my Grandmother lived there aged 11.

An earlier view about 1904. Same building in centre above? Don't think it has been posted before.

Another great Birmingham company. These may be of interest. Taken over by Samuel Groves in 1995 - another old established Birmingham...

What a gem of a map! Wake Green & Sarehole are two of my interests and this is a brilliant addition to my notes - also the oldest...

An interesting old plan of the Sarehole area dated 1807. Sarehole Mill is indicated in red, and Sarehole Farm in green. It shows the...