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  1. Dennis Williams

    Old building Query

    What year was this map please?
  2. Dennis Williams

    Old building Query

    Brilliant sleuthing, as per on here! So grateful...
  3. Dennis Williams

    Old building Query

    Cheers...xx
  4. Dennis Williams

    Old building Query

    This photo was posted on another website, and captioned as a building in Lichfield Street, sited BEFORE the Birmingham Law Courts were built in Corporation Street....can anybody vouch for that?
  5. Dennis Williams

    Saltley Pubs please....

    Anyone got these two named and shamed...? Love a map with 'em on...! Cheers..
  6. Dennis Williams

    The George Inn, Saltley

    Brilliant...Thanks so much...
  7. Dennis Williams

    The George Inn, Saltley

    Just seen this posted on his Blog by Graham Knight, who used to be on here in the early days....and I can't find any reference. or better still, pictures of the George Inn in Saltley....anyone remember it's location...or have a photo? Pretty please?
  8. Dennis Williams

    Hen and Chickens Hotel New Street

    Sorry again Brummiegeoff...THAT building is the Joint Stock Bank....I was concentrating on the one next to it....the Hotel pictured so nicely in older prints...!
  9. Dennis Williams

    Hen and Chickens Hotel New Street

    Sorry Brummie Geof...but it is the Hen and Chickens Hotel in New Street...here's some pics and gumpf to confirm...
  10. Dennis Williams

    Hen and Chickens Hotel New Street

    Couple of photos of old New Street......puzzled me a bit...two questions... Is that road on the left where Stephenson Place is now? (No Tommy Attwood Statue).... What is the name of the Hotel? with the ornate staue carvings over the Pillars...? Cheers
  11. Dennis Williams

    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Another one...Ivor Roth....Brummie...but works in Bournemouth...
  12. Dennis Williams

    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Just found this lovely Brummie Artist.... Paula Gabb Creative artist proud to be from Birmingham Paula Gabb is inspired by the beauty of the British countryside for her landscapes – occasionally populated by historic towns and cityscapes, Paula spends her time focusing on her local area with...
  13. Dennis Williams

    New Market Street

    Has anyone any idea if a "market' was ever a feature of this odd little Street up Town....New Market Street...I have a few pics of then and now...anyone got any others...especially love Warren Blackham's painting of said Street...
  14. Dennis Williams

    Blanning family

    Wow...extract from myFamily memoirs... In my early school years, Mom worked full time at a pork butchers’ factory in Small Heath – Messrs Bywaters & Co. They had a chain of shops in Birmingham and were well known for their pork pies and sausages. She was secretary to the Managing Director, the...
  15. Dennis Williams

    YMCA Bristol Street

    Has anyone got any other pics of this lovely looking building? I can find absolutely nowt anywhere.....no pics or info, other than this, which I saw posted today on a Brum History site....the caption reads...YMCA Hostel on Bristol Street, Birmingham. The Hostel was opened in 1919 to cater for...
  16. Dennis Williams

    Smallpox hospital...

    I had the greatest displeasure to be an onlooker and bit part player to one of our darkest deeds from the not-so-good closet of Brum history. Namely, the day we gave smallpox back to the world…for an instant anyway, and it could have been so much worse... Geneva, Switzerland, May 8, 1980 - The...
  17. Dennis Williams

    It’s mikejees birthday

    Happy Birthday mike....xx
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