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I can remember having to get home in the fog one day. A Midland Red single decker appeared in Paradise Street. I did not know where it was going but as long as it was going along the Hagley Road I was happy to get on it. Coming out of Broad Street at Five Ways the driver just had to guess the...

Queens Hospital was the old Accident Hospital on Bath Row. That name was over the door but I think it was partly obscured and no longer used.

Photographed in Liverpool last year. Possibly one of the last steam buses to operate in service. This bus, a Thornicroft, ran an experimental service between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus in 1902.

As I understand it Winson Green was a grassy area of Birmingham Heath. Over the years Birmingham Council built many institutional buildings there. Prison, Workhouse (which became the hospital), a mental hospital, a smallpox isolation hospital.

The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen Germany. I took this photo in 2018 looking across the airport.

I think that is near Barnsley Road not St Augustus Road.

This could have been when Early Closing Day was abolished. Shop staff were entitled to a half day off each week to be determined by the local council. In Birmingham this was Wednesday afternoons. When this was abolished shops had to set up new rotas for staff with time off. (Side note. Sheffield...

Paul, I am not sure where you live these days but I believe you have moved abroad. Because of running out of numbers all geographical dialling codes were changed on 16th April 1995, so Birmingham became 0121 replacing 021

A year since the last post but Happy New Year. Through my letter box today, I received a leaflet from a local fast food shop. It had a phone number 0121 824 XXXX and is based in Halesowen. I have never seen a Birmingham exchange code in the 800s before and a search of the codes for each of the...

1000 Trades (a Jewellery Quarter pub) have now opened a bar selling food and drinks in the former refreshment rooms of Lightwoods House. For info https://1000tradesonthepark.org.uk/

I don't have date for the founding of Lewis's Bank but many stores had their own banks. In 1958 Lewis's Bank was bought by Martin's Bank but continued operating under their Lewis's name. In 1967 Martin's Bank merged with Barclays Bank but one of the government conditions for approval of the...

That building would have been between Francis Road and Five Ways. I think I remember it. It would have been demolished with the massive works carried out at Five Ways in the late 1960s onwards.

No that is the church over the canal. At the moment I cannot remember its name. St Peter's was to the left and behind the photographer. EDIT The Church of the Messiah. a Unitarian church well supported by many Birmingham business leaders in the past like the Nettlefolds and the Chamberlains

The original entrance to the London and Birmingham Curzon Street station was to the left of the still standing building which was a hotel in the early days. The entrance to the Grand Junction station was along Curzon Street. As Heartland says above it is not generally realised that there were...

The Calthorpe family name in full is Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. The present head of the family is Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe Bt.

I knew the furriers in Calthorpe Road but I am sure they used to be somewhere else in the Five Ways area but I can't remember where.

As the title of the thread is 'around Birmingham', I can mention that there is the wreck of a West Bromwich Corporation Bundy Clock on Spon Lane just off the main Smethwick-Oldbury Road. I remember travelling to my grandmother's house on the no. 11 Outer Circle. I always wondered why, going...

The Galton name comes from a member of the Galton Family, possibly Samuel, who later built Warley Abbey in Warley Woods. He had a house just beyond this point between the two canals at the point at which they separate.

I have a question about the tunnels on the canals at Galton Bridge. Actually, further research has answered my question before I asked it. So for information: I wanted to know the name of the tunnels as they are not listed on Wikipedia's List of Canal Tunnels. I have found that they are named...

George Dixon 1820-1898 Mayor of Birmingham 1866-67 Member of Parliament 1867-1876 and 1885-1898. Founded Bridge Street School at his own expense in 1884 which in 1888 moved to new premises being renamed to George Dixon School before moving to City Road in 1906.