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This is one that has appeared on the B38 Facebook group a couple of weeks ago. I saw it and immediately thought it's the "Ash Meadow" in Brandwood Park Road.

Never been in the Tudor cinema but I remember it. What I do remember is drinking in the Warstock, Dog & Partridge, Sherwood, Bagnell Arms (the last pub I remember that had a piano - a plea for a free and easy night failed because no-one could play it), Haven/Mercury/cottage, New Lodge, Prince of...

There are still quite a few of the old 30M.P.H signs in Birmingham with a "flat top" Three. These became "illegal" on the 1st Jan 1965! There are quite strict laws on signage and I wonder how many motorists have been proscecuted or fined because they did not know that the road signs were no...

Great photographs Viv'. The first pic is definately 50's. The style of midland "red" plate on a BCT column/bracket together with a "tin front" bus in the background dates it. The second is again 50's. A pre-war BCT request stop on a post war bracket complete with cylindrical yellow litter bin...

Oops sorry picture wrong way up. A 1925 AEC 504 seen in Stonehose Hill. 89 years later the lovely old "pedestal" sign is still there (just). Strangely it has been very recently painted,despite being damaged. I remember it being very rusty with the "ST" broken and twisted at a 45 degree angle.A...

A pre - warboys school sign still doing its job in Sycamore Road Bournville green. The grey paint has worn off revealing its true colours. This one dates from around 1957.

It looks like an "Almex" to me. Birmingham experimented with them in the mid 60's on one-man operated single deck services. I could have had one some years ago (a Birmingham one) for a couple of quid. Wish I'd bought it - kicking myself now - it would be worth £70 -80 to a collector

Hi Andy. Oooh yes my favourite lamp - just like the one I used to have (sigh). I remember these in Woodfall Ave. King's Norton was the last place to have these. About this time the columns were painted dark brown but the brackets weren't. Shortly after they were converted to "7" brackets (in...

Hi GuyArab. My favourite lamps were the Revo "Moseley" columns with the elliptical "clock box", large swan-neck bracket complete with wrought iron scroll, stepped top lantern with a glass acorn bowl. These delightful brackets (mid 30's) were all replaced by 1981. I used to have a complete 1937...

The ultra modern "stick" lamp is a Revo "Festival" column and lantern. Again these were designed by Birmingham PWD in liason with Revo and as their name implies they were made in 1951 for the festival of Britain. Quite classy for their time - using low pressure mercury lamps (flourescent tubes)...

Viv. They were catenary wired to save space as you rightly said. If you looked carefully at the buildings where the wall mounted "roses"were there was a little control box which housed the fuses and solar clock. During the war alternate lanterns were removed (rather than remove the bulbs!). In...

Superb! It would be 1938. The Lovely lamp-post (of Handsworth UDC origin) has very recently lost its arc lamp and has been replaced by a GEC "box" lantern burning a then state of the art 400w MA discharge lamp. Interestingly Birmingham did not possess any electric street lighting until it took...

Here's a picture taken outside of the "Valley Pub". Haunch Lane / Yardley Wood Road around 1957 showing the 13 / 18A bus terminus (The 13 used this for buses running back to Yardley Wood Garage) The basic 13A went down Trittiford Road)

The lamp-post out side of the shop was not a "corporation" one and was probably erected by Aston Manor UDC , hence the different column and lantern. The white strip on the lanterns glass would, more than likely, read "Deykin Avenue". Quite a few of these older lamps had the name of the road...

It is a small mantle burner attached to the "Sugg" controller used to illuminate the no entry sign

Yes, Castle Vale had a whole installation of them. The Main roads through (Tangmere Drive, etc) were powered by 125w Mercury vapour discharge lamps(MBF) whilst the rest were 80w MBF from new. (white light) Originally all of the "Birmingham" or "Hatfield" lanterns (or to give them their correct...

'm not sure if there is a thread for street lighting (haven't found one) but as they are street furniture I'll post it here. Here are a couple of pictures of an old lamp-post which is about to fall vitim to Amey. This particular lamp is interesting because it is one of the very original...

I remember the old litter bins as a small child. The ones on legs with a canopy over them tended to be by shops whereas bins on lamp-posts and bus stops were cylindrical, bright yellow, and had PWD embossed on them. (Photo by DJ Norton - His sons site is excellent!)

Ah yes the 13/24/38. Yardley wood garage was always well stocked with Leyland buses in those days. Because of this garages tradition with Leyland vehicles they got a vast majority of the ex- midland red "leopards" when the PTE took them over in 1973. I remember these very well as they appeared...

Remember the 48 and 49 well. As a child mum and I sometimes went to meet dad from work. As he worked just off the Parade the 48/9 was Ideal as they stopped at the top end of Suffolk Street so it was a short walk along what was left of Easy Row and summer row. As we lived in Brandwood Park Road...