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Dear Alan, I have checked the Ordnance Survey maps of 1901, 1913, 1921, 1938, 1949 and 1958 none of which show any property in Grove Lane Harborne apart from The Grove (Thomas Attwood's house), and Harborne Hall itself. It wasn't until the 1986 edition which shows properties constructed along...

Circa 1949-1950, my bro and I taken outside the entrance of the Grand Pier by the resident photographer with the old harbour (fuzzy) in the background. Always stayed at the Melrose Hotel nearby, now a car park! Clearly my parents presented the ticket and collected this print at the end of the...

Interesting stuff here. This from my ever expanding pile of references for the area, firstly from William Hutton's Perambulations: "We now cross the Lichfield road, down Duke-street, then the Coleshill road at the A B house. From thence down the meadows, to Cooper's mill; up the river to the...

You said earlier Kent Street as a maybe. That is just off (and still is) the Horsefair/Wrentham Street part of town but nothing rings a bell for me down there, not educationwise anyhow, Pornophone was on a nearby corner which was however educational filmwise. I recall going to the old...

Wasn't that the one with two mad women hacking Samuri soldiers up, edgy, all black and moody. Went on a lot with not much said. Not my cup of tea. I recall the Sculpturists were also ensconced upstairs in Summer Row and possessed useful Acetylene and Oxygen gas cylinders and welding tackle on...

As I recall the Gosta Green building first opened in September 1964 though not all departments used the building immediately. Fine Art remained at Margaret Street and Industrial Design, both NDD and DipAD years, was based over the Peggy Goss(?) shop opposite the TGWU building in Broad Street for...

Spent a few hours yesterday in the Lichfield Record Office following a lead about Cooper's Mill (Document Reference B/C/5/1789/292) which is a copy of a lease dated 28th July 1791 between John Cooper along with many others and a piece of land the property of Sir Thomas Gooch Baronet "Piece of...

Dear Rupert, I doubt any of the features present in Westley's Prospect of around 1730 survived the arrival of the canals and later the railways in the 18th and 19th centuries. I have read elsewhere that by 1836 the site of the mill was subsumed into a steel drawing mill which occupied the land...

Dear Rupert, Not sure whether this is the aerial photo you refer to, it was taken in the late '20s and was part of a sequence which covered Bordesley to the Markets area from east to west and is from the English Heritage Aerofilms archive available online. The aircraft's flight track was...

Spent a few minutes this morning wandering around the new concourse which after St Pancras and Kings Cross left me feeling a little underwhelmed. No doubt when the atrium is opened then light will make all the difference. Meantime the painters need to return to finish off the inner walls at the...

I have uploaded this copy of Thomas Sulman's Panorama which is a slight improvement on the previous version. It also includes the vignettes of the City Sorry, can't upload the full scan as it exceeds the hosting site limits being over 100mb.

I have to admit I love maps and the stories they tell and particularly when you make a discovery that has been staring you in the face for weeks. When I visited the National Archive earlier in February I was mainly interested in stuff related to the Duddeston Viaduct but their referencing...

Thanks Jim, It may be that work to alleviate the old route of the Rea near to the pier foundations at Montague Street was covered in the Specification of Contract which was awarded to Peto and Eastted in 1849 for constructing the section from Bordesley northwards toward Curzon Street. The...

The purple line defines the boundary of the Parish of Birmingham along it's eastern side which largely followed the main course of the Rea as far as Speedwell before heading northwest to Islington Row and Five Ways etc. The small river meeting the Rea in the upper left corner of the map appears...

Looking back from the Great Charles Street end toward the tunnel beneath the staircases from the Concourse above and the Great Western Arcade beyond. Taken around about 1973 before the area was used as a car park. The Brockhouse adverts are visible above the staircases. The London bound trains...

OK, I think I may now have a handle on the way references to the Coppermine works. Hopefully they should appear here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/images2/userpics/10449/GWR_11476.jpg https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/images2/userpics/10449/After_J_Piggot_Smith_1825.jpg These two...

I have been digitising some of Brunel's Contract drawings for the Birmingham and Oxford Junction railway held at The National Archive in Kew as part of research into the Duddeston Viaduct. The original drawings are in a sorry state sadly having been poorly stored for several years before being...

In my student days I used to leave our house in Castle Bromwich every weekday about four in the morning and ride into town to meet my uncle who was a fishmonger and greengrocer in Cotteridge. It helped pay my way. He would make his way around the Fish and Veg markets ahead of me placing orders...

Spent a happy hour or so last night sorting through a pile of photos taken in the 70's when I had more hair and silly shoes. Lots of old shop fronts long gone as well as a few of Snow Hill station when the rails had gone but you could still walk the tunnel from Moor Street. Though not titled...

It was in the Courtyards and yards of Brum thread in post number 292