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I honestly haven't any idea where it is, but it must be within the old City of Birmingham boundaries, because it has a Corporation-pattern bus stop sign of the post-1947 pattern (with the sign projecting away from the road, as opposed to the earlier ones, with the sign symmetrically centred over...

Thanks Lloyd, I've been thinking for 65 years that 486 was one of the bus converted for gas production, but I'm prepared to accept your word [I certainly remember it before and after 'rebodying' by Brush]. I agree BCT had no wish to get involved in the 'experimental' use of gas producers and, to...

I remember 486 at Wellhead Lane very well, working the 33 route with a gas producer trailer in 1943-44. Incidentally, why did BCT pick that route to run this feeble and 'iffy' experiment, when there were quieter routes without such hills north of Perry Barr? Peter

Lloyd, For bus nutters only Sorry to pick nits, but I don't think the bus on the far right of your excellent picture was a Morris, because (1) it has it has a 'piano' front common to AEC Regents and a very short-lived Tilling Stevens demonstrator, and (2) it's offside destination indicator is...

Lloyd, I've just seen your five-piece letter card, posted on 24 July. I think the last pic, although titled 'Calthorpe Park' is in fact Perry Hall Park. The moat once surrounded Perry Hall, seat of the Gough-Calthorpes, which was demolished in the late 1920s. We used to have paddle-boats there -...

Alf, It was nice to see that last pic of the Great Orme Tramway. My last memory of Llandudno goes back 47 years, when we were newly married, skint, with a first offspring well on the way. We were living in digs in London, I was working for the railways and Barbara was working for the Piccadilly...

Tardebigge, I'm quite surprised you say that pic of Regent OV 4491 was taken at Cotteridge. For one thing, this depot was quite small, capacity only 30 trams, although at that time 31 were based there, the last one being parked on the track 'fan' in the forecourt, if one wasn't away in the...

Seeing that picture of the coach park at Cheddar Gorge really struck a familiar but forgotten chord with me. The last time I was there was very nearly 70 years ago - on Thursday 3 November 1938, to be precise. The schools had a week's holiday for half-term then (as now) and, as my dad and...

The author of that site, J M Jones, is a hero of mine. I believe he was headmaster of George Dixon's School, and he has done some wonderful research and documentation. Everything is very readable and exciting. He must have been a brilliant teacher. His studies of Aston Manor are also on the...

Thank you everybody for some lovely pictures. I can remember quite a few of the scenes. For example the colour pic of the Bull Ring must have been late 1958 or early 1959, as you can see Bryant's the contractors had started to remnove Nelson's statue to a terrible site in Moor Street. I am...

Thank you for you kind comments. I have done some tweaking this morning, and replaced the missing pictures which bounced off yesterday. Yes it is a labour of love, but I really enjoy discovering new things and it's always nicer to share them, although some think it's a bore. I have to...

I doubt if anyone is too concerned, but my question about Sunday Bridge was a non-starter, because I have now discovered that Sunday Bridge was not over the canal as I thought, but over the river Tame itself, at Newton Road, Great Barr. The 1834 OS map does not show the Tame Valley Canal at all...

Bogie trams were in the minority on the Dudley Road, and rarely got beyond Grove Lane or, at a pinch Bearwood. The Corporation ran the four-wheeler oldest cars with open balconies (lovely) through Smethwick, Oldbury and Dudley. Your picture is on the Dudley Road looking towards Town, with the...

There was a German PoW camp on a strip of land 'borrowed' from the3 Lucas Sports Ground in College Road, running from Moor Lane down to the canal. The prisoners were there for about a year after the war, but I don't think they were while the war was still on. By Christmas 1946 some had been...

Delving round Digbeth, Part 5 Banbury Street and New Canal Street Walking up Andover Street I got to Banbury Street with the Proof House [Fig 20] at the end, which I have never seen before, other than from the train. Then back along Banbury Street to New Canal Street and the former Eagle & Tun...

Delving round Digbeth, Part 4 Fazeley Street Next on the right then comes the former headquarters of the canal carrying company Fellows Morton and Clayton [Fig 15], established there by Joshua Fellows in 1879, while the name of Pickford and Co, better-known today, also started in the vicinity...

Delving round Digbeth, Part 3 Garrison Lane Crossing Garrison Lane gingerly, I looked over the opposite parapet towards Town [Fig 10]. Again the scene was dominated by the unfinished railway viaduct, with the former Corporation wharf on the right beyond it. Fazeley Street Back as far as the...

Delving round Digbeth, Part 2 Heath Mill Lane, Lower Trinity Street and Adderley Street Once refreshed I set off along Heath Mill Lane, and turned right immediately after passing under the railway viaduct which straddles and dominates this low-lying area. It is hard to imagine today that this...

Delving round Digbeth, Part1 Last Tuesday, having seen a good weather forecast the day before, I got myself ‘advance’ tickets over the internet from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill (return cost £7.90 on a senior railcard). Armed with two ‘Discovery Trails’ the Museum & Gallery did...

Thanks very much, Mike. Not seen the painting before, but there are still quite a few photos around. Many years ago an old friend of mine moved from Brum, where he was a teacher at St Philip's Boys' Grammar School off the Hagley Road, to Clifton in Bristol - almost directly above where the...