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It is the late '50s about the turn of the sixties, so let me take you for a short walk along New Street past where they have begun letting the new shops on the "big top" site and clearing the ground for the Rotunda opposite Times Furnishing. Now turn right down along Worcester Street past the...

Quite so, you sat at table pushed a button and after some time a lady appeared having walked down a passage between adjacent "booths" which seated four or six people. At the time (circa 1966-7) it felt pretty cool and was certainly up a level from the Kardomah though quite soon the Formica...

Correct Astonian, well spotted. Brittle Street ran at right angles to Livery Street across to Snow Hill and is shown in a "Plan of the Station Ground Birmingham" surveyed and drawn by I K Brunel in 1852 and which is part of the Bristol Special Collection at the SS Great Britain Archive. To...

Actually Mike, it was your response sometime back to a query in the Railway Terrace, Bordesley thread (August 8th 2011 Post number 9) that first put me onto this. Victoria Place (not Terrace, my error) was constructed well after the event with the first occupiers appearing in records from 1878...

Curzon Street was the destination though efforts by the GWR to connect were thwarted by the London & North Western Railway so the Duddeston Viaduct remains testament to the pig headed business interests of the Railway Mania of the 1840's. This from the National Archive showing the area of...

This picture shows the Camp Hill line rising up from Lawden Street bridge toward the old Camp Hill station to the right past the self storage site visible from the Middle Ringway. The photo was taken recently from the southern end of Bordesley station with a telephoto lens so there is quite a...

Clear recollection of slant sided tender/bunker, tall narrow chimney, Ivatt 2-6-0 or maybe 2-6-2 tank....don't ask for a number Approached us from Harborne travelling backwards and at other times stood at the station but it is a long, long time ago now.

Been delving since in some old college stuff and find I was at least two years adrift! Autumn of 1965 not '63! Firstly found a transparency of the original coloured renderings of three ceramic forms with a note about "work done at Harborne during Texture and Form section of Common course" in...

During the Autumn of 1963 I attended an annex to the Birmingham College of Art which was located in the Harborne Junior School where we studied Ceramics. From memory the short course lasted for just a single term before we were "assigned" to another module elsewhere in the following January...

Not the last piece in the new New Street's shiny jigsaw puzzle but Network Rail's scale prototype just off the end of Small Heath Bridge

Dear Toby44, you are correct though I arrived at the answer by a slightly different route. It was detailed in John Pigott Smith's 1856 survey of Birmingham on sheet 112 along with much of the original detail of Curzon Street station The monochrome copies are available by request in the...

Sure thing! Trip back to Carolina's posting #1485 to see why we are talking about somewhere at least 4,000 miles away, one of two instances of Birmingham in the USA, this one in Alabama and the other not far from Chicago in Michigan. Which reminds me of a mad day in November 1995 when I was...

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Brilliant, you were a few clicks ahead of me and this might not be the exact one but the visual clues are there...

Definitely not Curzon Street, nor for that matter any other station in Birmingham nor possibly England. Brum really only had one terminus for a short period at Vauxhall before the line from London was extended to Curzon Street which was soon extended to New Street. Suffolk Street was goods only...

Tram experts required! This picture comes from Derek Harrison's collection and appeared in print in Pat Whitehouse's book "The Great Western in the West Midlands" in 1984. The picture shows work to replace an original girder bridge in Small Heath in March 1907, the caption refers to a BCT...

Re: The (new ) New Street Station A few more links to views of New Street: https://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Euston&objid=1997-7409_LMS_1075 https://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Euston&objid=1997-7409_LMS_2687...

Ell said: "Still pretty dark down here!" c/o https://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Derby&objid=1997-7397_DY_2455 Not back in 1903 under Cowper's beautiful roof on the Midland side

Work (still) in progress on 15th September 1969 fixing the ceiling and wall cladding c/o Railtrack/Network Rail archives From the curve I would guess it was looking along platform 11 and 12 on the Midland side. The waiting DMU has Derby on the blind Interesting fifty-one year old snippet...

All of the MR services mentioned (161, 168 and 171) routed via Saltley Viaduct, Washwood Heath (Fox and Goose) and The Clock Garage (City boundary) before either turning off down the Old Chester Road past Castle Bromwich Hall for Water Orton and Coleshill or straight on along Bradford...