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I was brought up in Oldbury where the canals were always open. People treated the towpaths as any other footpath so if that was the most convenient route then that was the way people walked. I was surprised to find that in Birmingham the canals were all sealed off with just Gas Street as the...

The city centre was split between CENtral and MIDland with I think CITy and COLmore as overflow exchanges. My parents were on BEArwood and my first home on my own was on WOOdgate which was actually Quinton but there was no Q on the old dials.

Not Birmingham but I thought it would be interesting Names of London telephone exchanges

Number of photos of the Harborne Room in the V & A https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10987/panelled-room-from-the-grove-room-chamberlain-john-henry/?carousel-image=2010EG9804

Very Interesting. Do you know where it is now. One room from the Grove has been reconstructed in the V & A in London. Grove House was in what is now Grove Park, Harborne. Just being pedantic but in 1877 Harborne was in Staffordshire not Warwickshire.

I think Uncle Holly was exclusive to Lewis's which in those days included Selfridges.

Photo of 2 Charles Road from 2011 is available on Google Maps Street View. Although 133 Stamford Road exists it appears that a photo of it is not available on Google. Looks like the driver of the camera car went round by Stamford Grove and forgot to backtrack along Stamford Road.

The original Railway Police were the signallers. That is why signallers are always addressed as Bobby whatever their real names.

I am extremely annoyed as my ticket reads as a perfectly valid admission ticket. There is no mention on it to say that it is a lottery or ballot ticket. This is a complete misdescription but I have no idea what we can do about it. As we have not lost any money, there is no point in complaining...

I had not realised that Handsworth Grammar had joined the King Edwards Schools and changed its name in 2017. My late father went to Handsworth Grammar.

I had not realised that Handsworth Grammar had joined the King Edwards Schools and changed its name in 2017. My late father went to Handsworth Grammar.

As this thread has just been revived after 10 years, I thought I would just comment that Juxta is Latin for 'next to' so Aston Next To does required the place it is next to be named. So the place name should read Aston next to Birmingham to distinguish from the many other Astons.

A small correction. The 74 to Dudley took the Soho Road route. It was the 87 which took the Dudley Road route.

I remember watching a film in which an American western town bought a school mail order and when they built it, it turned out to be a chapel. Anyway perhaps we should stop as we are going off topic here.

Had a couple of scam emails lately claiming to offer £100 vouchers for McDonald's. This is particularly dangerous as it is obviously aimed a youngsters who would not possibly be so scam savvy. Both were sent from Italian email addresses.

When I read you comment about taking issue with a reference to Farmers Bridge, I thought you were going to comment about the confusion about the location of Framers Bridge Junction. For years the junction behind the ICC was described as Farmers Bridge Junction. That was not correct and I blame...

Presumable stacks of mailbags on the platform which will not be seen these days. From the bend in the platform this would be on the Midland side of the station, I would guess platform 12.

l think the argument about not reopening Balsall Heath was that geographically it was close to the city centre and the railway line takes a long sweep round via St Andrews so trains would have no advantage over buses. Conversely on the Cross City Line Five Ways is a destination station in itself.

Also not often shown is the entrance to the tunnel from the basement of the old Bank of England. I have heard a story about how one day the driver of a bullion train had a problem with his engine and could not get it started. The signalman got concerned when the train did not appear so the...

Had an attempted scam this morning. I received an email supposedly from ebay saying that a PC I had ordered had been dispatched to an address in Norwich. Momentary panic so I rang the phone number quoted for complaints problems etc. That was my mistake for not checking with the ebay website...