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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2551804/Birmingham-council-use-cityscape-of-Birmingham-Alabama-on-leaflet.html This one here?

Yes, it looks like a mis-numbered link Viv. To get at the photo one can go on the Mirropix website and type in the words 'Bimingham Tidy' as the theme of the photo was a Keep Britain Tidy sweep-up in New Street. Remember when pride in the city meant making an effort.....?

If one remembers-as recalled by our correspondent at Post No.4-Lady Chatterley's Lover was published by Penguin Books in 1960 and subject to the famous court case. Maybe the lower floor of Penguin Books was meant so just the servants COULD read it! Hudson's in New Street you can see in this...

Hudsons was a name to trust. Think they had a connection with the University at Selly Oak. It was time-honoured tradition in the bookselling world even in the modern 70's. But alas...

It happens to be the BT telephone engineer, Outer Circle. I'm still trying to get an audible connection in Wolverhampton after 125 years too..

I don't think I'm going over the top whenever I compare this and other wartime photos of Times Furnishings with the world-famous photograph in the London Blitz of St.Paul's cathedral rising from the debris cloud swirling around it. The picture became the front cover of a documentary book in the...

The road safety board gets more detailed attention here https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/sign-on-a-street-in-birmingham-displaying-the-number-of-news-photo/3400190 This particular year is 1953 comparing statistics with those of 1952. I'm assuming the totals were added to each...

Interesting view of what to me is the old Suffolk Street (incorrectly labelled here as Digbeth) in its last days as a simple two-way road. View looking towards Holloway Circus with Allport Street on the right and on the left the Technical College. The occasion seems to be the transport of a...

Would these bollards have been lit up at night and in bad weather to prevent pedestrians coming a cropper,Viv?

It looks like old Paradise Street to me

Which is here, Maria. I hope the shoppers weren't buried in the rubble when it was filled in-having tried to find their way out of there for 35 years! https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/bull-ring-shopping-centre-square-birmingham/posterid/RIBA62700.html...

Viv, in your postcard (post 258) you can see at the far end the rounded building which became known as Harrison's Corner seen close-up in photo 2 of post 259.

The other Odeon within the Birmingham boundary was the Odeon, Warley. This is -or was-where the Wolverhampton New Road met the Hagley Road, and was demolished 1973-ish. The only remaining Odeons of the same style still existing in the west of the region apart from Kingstanding are in...

From around 1963 it became one side of the dual carriageway from what was (until 1990) the Gaumont Cinema Steelhouse Lane to the Masshouse Roundabout. (Is THAT there anymore even?) https://www.photobydjnorton.com/OldSquare.html If you look at the whole page of that link you will get a 'today'...

You can use it to impress Gina Lollobrigida on a date, Cookie. I gather she was once a renowned classical sculptor. You can be looking deep into her fuller figure and mistakenly say "I love your beautiful ruins here in Rome".

There's a street name on the corner wall, Viv. Sandon Road? In which case we're just off the Hagley Road with the front of the building on it. Remember, deliveries round the back in those days. Can we run a caption competition for what the 'orse is saying while the driver is taking the parcel...

Is it the famous one from outside Dock Green police station after the BBC TV series came to an end? It would be quite an embarrassment if the BBC props dept said it had michievously slipped out of their hands in 1975 and they wanted it back for their BCLM-type theme park!

I'm intested too MikeJee. Going back 50 years in my parents house I traced over road and street maps using greaseproof paper just to see if maybe my idea of linear networking would improve. Absolute fail. Even the mild inclinations of the land would have been unworkable. But modern civil...

This is a Burtons on Soho Road complete before the bombing. The National Provincial would be in the gap between all the shop blinds https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/imu/imu.php?request=multimedia&irn=88104&mimeType=image&width=800&format=jpg Addition: from the same collection, an exact replica...

Or its a ballcock from a cistern he's found down there. Somebody will be missing that in Rubery!