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Dennis at 3908. That is a fabulous photo. As if that decade regarding improvement had rubbished the 2000s and wanted to renew again with hindsight! Midland Red bus too! Yet with contradictions such as the jalopey truck vehicle on the left. Exploration dream!

According to Digital Ladywood, the site on the corner of Little Bow Street became the long-term address for the National Provincial Bank in Horsefair...

I would think that a stagecoach would have a pair of horses-maybe two pairs-with passengers facing both ways on top and inside. A horse bus would have only one nag on the front and all the passengers facing the same way. Courtesy of Mary Evans heres a coach outward bound to London at the...

My mother and father in the 1950s had a PYE radio and TV. It was one of those where the valves had to warm up before a hazy picture came on, eventually a day later.

Have you tried the ArthurLloyd website yet Julia? I'm more of a cinema historian having been able to supply the website owner with a few items from my collection whenever theatres went 'silver screen' and never returned. Here's the direct link to the Alex in its bustling music-hall days...

Interestingly however, BOTH Vincent Streets (in Ladywood-post 51-AND Balsall Heath) have a "Tindal Street" of one kind or another in their immediate vicinity.

Just goes to show Jean how versatile BHF members are;well so far you,Astonian and Old Boy. I think I'm just a closet exhibitionist that the BBC or whatever camera veered towards at that moment in time really. My appearance on Kilroy (just in case BHF wants to avoid a booking from me for a...

I'm going to regret this, but I was a front-line guest in an episode of the BBC daytime show "Kilroy" some twenty years ago. You'll all have to wait until I get a flight all the way from Wolverhampton to one of the Christmas meet-ups, and only wild horses (or serious amounts of Teacher's...

Post No.1288: maybe the woman has done a runner with a seal wrapped up in a shawl rescued from the local circus as in the original 1967 Rex Harrison film of 'Doctor Dolittle? https://www.moviestore.com/rex-harrison-285612/ but unfortunately in our pic the pram has conked out way back down...

and here is Five Ways nearing its 'celestial' completion (as in the pinnacle of heavenly white line orderliness) https://ribapix.com/image.php?i=89790&r=2&t=4&x=1&ref=RIBA47275 Even just one side of Islington Row would take up the width of the 1890's thoroughfare. Carolina's photo of Kunzle's...

The invention of gas lighting IN Birmingham, or its major advance in the City, discussed here in the closing paragraphs. https://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpage.php?MID=16507&id=1405861053

Absolutely superb! Is there any way with the next one we can have fifties' and sixties' backgrounds with the modern people rushing about bumping into the sadly long-gone beloved buildings of Birmingham? In which case they would have a rude awakening about our vanished heritage! Would be a bit...

It does look dangerous too, Maria. Just imagine being a motorist and having a swimsuited glamour girl plastered over your windscreen due to having taken a wrong turn up there!

Here's Lewis's roof garden, Maria. Not many of the shrubs though! https://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-02091957-road-safety-demonstration-on-lewiss-roof/MediaEntry/2131.html

Our friends on the railway remembrance site disusedstations have today produced a feature no less equal to their immaculate usual standards https://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/harborne/index.shtml Hope it gets everyone's approval Richie

For those keen lady shoppers in the early 1970's-a very retro article about C & A and its then very trendy makeover https://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/bres/pub/COID/275/042.jpg https://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/bres/pub/COID/275/043.jpg You might be able to enlarge the articles by clicking somewhere on...

Added to the Britain from Above website just a few weeks ago this image from 1938, https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw057518 although this closer view has a posting date from 2013 https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw005405

Its the same shop as in this photo from RIBA here, taken from the side street on its left and naturally a few decades earlier to this image

When an officials credentials are longer than the message one starts to get a bit weary...

I think there were three different colours of spearmint wrappers to differentiate the flavours: green, yellow, and for the standard variety, white. Are they still sold in these packs? Are they still sold, even? The machines were somewhat different to the bubblegum ones which were free-standing...