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In my memories hidden away I remember Moor Street Warehouse so well.....my mom worked in town as a dressmaker and so did my aunt, my gran would take me to town every Tuesday (market day) and would meet both her daughters after and often we'd go in to Moor Street warehouse.....I always recall...

You just brought back some wonderful Midland red memories there Bob.......super times we are lucky to remember....Happy Days indeed

That brings back childhood memories, when I lived at my grans in Selly Oak our #20 bus used to turn around using that building as the terminus, and you'd wait for the bus to come into Suffolk Street bus stop...the street was a cobbled surface...looked very dangerous when wet.

On a few occasions I've wondered if there were any original photos of this Locomotive being named officially at New Street Station in March 1945 by Alderman Wiggins-Davies ??? one would have thought there might be some tucked away in an library archive of Birmingham Mail perhaps ...

Quite a bit of equipment that was for sure...........!!! Thanks for the photos...

I wonder Does anyone remember the traverser that was there in the station ???? I wonder how many photos of that exist in someone's collection ??

Yes you've taken me back as well.......

Right on there Dave...a Crab for sure......looks so good......happy memories there for me

You're right...it was never shiny,,,,,,lol

Goodness me...that takes me back to the 1950's...that loco used to be on the Selly Oak ..Bournville.KN line so much, really takes me back to those spotting days for sure...so good to see a colour shot of it...many thanks

That's one great photo.....many thanks

Thank you for this.......I may be able to 'fudge' the picture about a bit....many thanks indeed Mike

This is really a long shot I know, but I wondered if anyone that train spotted on New Street Station and standing on the end of Platform 6 , took any photos of locos waiting at the end of platform 1A...where the 'Glasgow' used to go from, what I'm after is what looks like an awful background of...

We live in hope then !!!

And I used to see it everyday and used to shout...'Wreck It !!1' Now....I wish I could see it lol

The Derbyshire Yeomanry was NEVER rebuilt...it had a parallel boiler all through it's life

Fat Controller ????

That sure hits the memory strings superbly well....that enclosure where we all gathered too...well done

It was a water pumping house

I worked with a mechanic in Kings Heath way back in 1964 and his brother in law was something to do with that garage, I am sure it was in a prominent place on a corner of a main road.