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Eno's was sold in a jar I recall, but Andrews came in a tin. Always remember bending the teaspoon trying to prise the heavily sealed lid off.

The Wilmot Breedon (the motor parts manufacturer of under the car stuff) thing is to do with Britains first request to join the Common Market in 1961. Maybe it was hoped Wilmots association with the Italian car industry would help with the application...

Members might like to see the Austin Reed shop at around the time of this 1930s advertisement https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/austin-reed-new-street-birmingham-the-remodelled-frontage/posterid/RIBA58717.html or alternatively the older shop during...

There's a selection too, on John Ball's JLB2011 website. Section listed "Walk No.3".

The planners did flatten quite a lot in order to get it to fit in, Viv Some newish postings on the DJNorton website btw https://www.photobydjnorton.com/NewBham/NewBham14.html https://www.photobydjnorton.com/NewBham/NewBham4.html https://www.photobydjnorton.com/NewBham/NewBham5.html

Yes, but with only a tenth of the care and effort Viv. This guy is utilising a lifetime of work for the community.

I will look through the links over the weekend and see if I can deduce anything further. Thanks everyone for the work in the feedback so far.

The name of Clarkson Street doesn't appear in Bill Dargue's extensive posting on B'ham street names. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?18409-History-of-Birmingham-Street-names/page2 although if anyone has the time the name might appear buried in the thread somewhere. My own...

Regardless of the location of the bridge in Post No.464, I'm intrigued by the SECOND set of lights right on the opening to the structure itself. Was the first set of lights anything to do with the opening on the left to the (farm?) buildings; or maybe the second set (with only two lights it...

I'm assuming this is a Sunday, with the awnings extended not for the benefit of sheltering shoppers, but to protect whatever stock inside from sun-fade over the weekend. Look at the assembled public-Sunday best maybe, having just left the main church in the BullRing?

Here's an article to illustrate Paul's posting https://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpage.php?I_page=72070355&Mline=28565&id=1455966709 There are two pages. To get to the next and get back, use the big arrows in the top left corner.

And which one are you masquerading as Mohawk? The running man or the woman with the woman with the shovel? Or maybe you're BH Forum's very own Stanley Baxter, with a thousand appearances!

Its not on YouTube Lynn- its on the university archive "MaceArchive" Here's the link. https://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-01041959-gladstone-street-birmingham/MediaEntry/2992.html (That's another beer you owe me, LOL)

But an 'orse is an 'orse, Mohawk. Far more intuitive than humans. He's probably been waiting for what seemed an age for the photographer to make the shot. Remember moving items would have caused a blur so he'd have been placid for the whole presentation.

The real interest for me in the section of the A41 between the junction of Vyse Street and Hockley Hill and the top of Soho Hill/Soho Road is that you can just imagine it like one of the villages in this country sunken under a reservoir which maybe will come to light in extreme drought...

Going back a few weeks now, it would be wonderful if it could be ascertained the location of photo No.3 in Post no.5 (Number 44 of whatever road-with the children by the gate). There seems to be a engraved stone top left hand corner. Maybe with a larger screen the name of the villa might be...

I remember years ago my local Council ordering me to take down from the washing line my ex-partners bloomers as they were a danger to passing aircraft. Well, I do live on the top of a high-rise and our local RAF base is only 1 min away by jet fighter. (Moderators entitled to wipe this post in...

One can spend hours looking into that photo, Lynn. The motor cars and the pristine signs. Banbury Street Wharf, I notice-British Railways, too. AND not a speck of litter in sight either!

Indeed, Mohawk. There are perceptibly two different generations looking at the rubble simultaneously. The older (Grandparent) thinking 'was the rebuilding after WW1 really worth it?' and the children thinking 'is this our foreseeable future?'

By interesting coincidence the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) website has recently been adding to its side-by-side photo archive of the Madin library with its Victorian predecessor and other historic buildings. To help readers onto the website here is a SYMBOLIC example of the...