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There are a couple of facebook groups on the history and memories of KEGS Aston, which you might find interesting. The groups are run by Jim Perkins. This is one of them: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1995467627392099

Here's a watercolour of the Birmingham Manor House with moat dated 1775. Although there had been a manor house from medieval times, this version of the manor house appears to be Georgian. The spire on the right of the picture is St Martin's. The manor house was demolished and the moat filled in...

Fifty Schilling Tailors on the corner of Corporation Street and Union Street

Note the remnant of Hyam's / Horne's building in the background and the construction work beyond it. The Hyam's building would be demolished shortly after this photo.

I note that in Whybrow's 'How does your Birmingham grow?' there is a statement on the acknowledgement page that the old photos were by Thomas Lewis (d1913) and Henry Joseph Whitlock (d1918) and the 'new' photos were by Elizabeth Clair Jones b1946. There are two issues with this. The first is...

I'm intrigued what document does this photo / map / discussion come from?

Midland Counties Herald offices. Dates July 1836 to January 1933. Known as Birmingham Herald up to March 1838 (source Birmingham Library - Newspaper Collection).

The book that followed the 1972 exhibition was John Whybrow's 'How Does Your Birmingham Grow?' Although out of print, used copies in a very good condition are for sale on the internet.

The Italian Renaissance style Hyam & Co. store on post No.839 was built in 1859.

The street directory in the 1835 Wrightson and Webb Directory also has an entry for 'Highgate, Moseley Road.' No 'Mayfield' listed.

The photo is a well known one. It is/was in the John Whybrow collection. The date is sometime between 1853 and 1858. We know this because that is the period Thomas Dayson was the licensee and his name is over the entrance to the pub which is on the right edge of the photo. A clearer version of...

Jim Perkins now runs a facebook group: 'History of KE Aston' where a lot of information and memories are shared.

In Kelly's Directory of 1854 Darwin's was listed as being at 69 High Street, on the corner of Union Street and not at 35A Bull Street. So the move to 69 High Street took place in 1854 or earlier.

A photo of the New Inn at 191-4 Bromsgrove Street is in Andrew Maxam's 'Time Please' (2002). The only exposed timber is three dormer windows on the top (3rd) floor of the building. Alas, this does not appear to be the timber framed building from the first post of this thread. .... which means I...

The timber framed building above the cow's back in this c1900 photo appears to be the Plough and Harrow pub on Jamaica Row (see: photo on https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/jamaica-row/plough-and-harrow.htm for a c.1930 photo of pub). Alas this pub appears to be too narrow to be the...

Doesn't look like building in the photo :(

Photo seems to have been taken around the 1930s in an urban area. The building seems to be a fairly large exposed timber framed building either original late medieval / early modern or later. Only the Old Crown seems to fit this description but the building in the picture does not appear to be...

I would suggest using the official Royal Mail addresses to determine the precise boundaries between roads. After all the Royal Mail is the ultimate authority on addresses in the UK. For example recently on another site some people were disputing whether the Old Crown was in Digbeth of High...

Possibly Alfred Freeman Smith (1847 to 1932), who did a painting of Worcester Street (dated 1883) that is the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (source artuk.org). There is also an entry for 'A Freeman Smith' in Sydney and Kathleen Morris's 'A Catalogue of Birmingham & West Midlands Painters...

The label on the image states it is after the riots. The five bay three storey building in Eccleston's drawing looks like the centre five bay 3 storey building that is the centre part of the building that stands there today.