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The building with the rounded tower has previously been identified as Redhill School.

Sparkhill Park in 1959 .... showing the paddling pool and the Sons of Rest building.

SteveBhx: Many thanks for the old photos of the Bear pub (opened c1937), and previous occupants, on the corner of Stratford Road and Thornhill Road in Sparkhill .... I hadn't seen them before. I was born and brought up in Thornhill Road, and the spot outside those corner pub doors was our...

A 1922 photo of the same Easy Row/Broad Street location .... before construction of the Hall of Memory.

There are several references to the Beverley Hotel in the Stratford Road thread.

The Moseley steam tram is on the Alcester Road, at the junction with Moor Green Lane.

The NLS Maps site contains this interesting - and alarming - map of Birmingham showing the locations of "fatal street accidents due to vehicular traffic for the year ended 31st December 1935. Total 148". The highlighted area of South Birmingham emphasises the density of fatalities. My...

MrSloyan .... here's a 1954 map, and a c1959 photo showing 24 Bath Row.

You may have already seen this photo Horatio .... 335 Coventry Road, Small Heath at the corner of Regent Park Road.

Great photos. The Stratford Road location is shown in this photo dated c1908. Would Turner's shop be there at that time ? .... the shop would be behind the lamppost, where the boxes are placed on the shopfront. I remember going in the shop as a lad. We used dried peas to shoot from our toy guns...

I believe this is a photo of the shoe repair shop at 7 Edward Road dated c1902, and a much later photo after it was taken over by Payne's.

Here's an 1867 photo from Henry Joseph Whitlock showing the whole of the building on the corner of Newhall Street and Ann Street/Colmore Row .... that is partially shown on the left edge in Lines' earlier sketch from Viv in Post #171.

Here's another photo of the garage from the thread "Petrol pumps and filling stations of the past". It appears to be later than the first picture .... the Marine Tavern has been taken over by the expanding Motor Works.

The recent episode of BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" featuring Rose Ayling-Ellis contains a section relating to the Aston Tavern .... one of her ancestors is Agnes Chilton who owned the pub in the early 1900s. It shows a couple of great photos taken in the pub garden .... a group shot showing...

I don't think this picture of the Eagle Insurance Building dated as 1932 has appeared on this thread before. It's at 122-124 Colmore Row, and is now the Java Lounge Coffee House.

I think the trolleybus is outside a WITHERS shop, not W H SMITH .... location shown on the right in this 1933 photo of Old Square.

Sorry Mark, I don't have a copy of the magazine. I found the cover photo on the "Old Pics of Brum" FB group .... posted by the great niece of Betty Burden.

The cover of the Picture Post edition that contained the photos.

The quote below is from the Cregoe Street thread Post #40. It appears many of the Betty Burden photos were taken around Cregoe Street. The building on the right in Post #9 above looks like Morton's Chapel .... presumably giving the name Chapel Court. It was in Court 11 Cregoe Street.

The excellent warwickshirerailways site identifies the vehicle as a "Great Western Railway Karrier Cob Mechanical Horse acting as the Chain Horse" i.e. it was used instead of an additional horse when needed to pull heavy loads up inclines.