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I was surprised that no one pointed out that the photograph in the newspaper article on post #1,944 seemed to show the driver opening the door of a LHD bus! That's the newspapers for you. Here's a corrected version.

Originally the word was formed from the Greek pan ("all") and techne ("art"). The word was used for a place where furniture was stored. We tended to use the word for (as you say) a large furniture van, but in fact that would have been a "Pantechnicon Van" - the van used by the pantechnicon...

It's been 7 years, but the bank building and adjacent shops were demolished last month (July '21) to make way for a 28 storey block of flats. Sad isn't it.

1966!! Hadn’t checked that far. I suppose there would be two distinct markets for them even now, especially with all these equestrian Olympians out there. Then there is always another one.

I've just stumbled upon this thread as part of research into a "Walk Down Hurst Street". I was taken by Elliott Brown's photographs of the "Zair Works" building that were taken in 2011. Well, it is still standing, as it was on my 1889 map when it was shown as a Whip Factory. Doubtless this was...

I'm researching the history of Hurst Street at the moment and needless to say the pubs need special attention! Does anyone have any photographs, other information or memories regarding the Hurst Street pubs? Here is a list of the pubs that I know of - left & right assumes travelling south from...

The 3X trams stopped running on the 31st of December 1949. This photograph shows tram 692 outside the Aston Hotel at Witton opposite the tram depot. This was probably on or around the last day of service on the no 3X route. The chalked bus route number (64) was to let passengers know what the...

I know this was posted six years ago, and I like the photograph. But where is Vaughan Street? I've searched maps dating back to 1889 and I can find no trace of a Vaughan Street in the area, or, indeed, in Birmingham. I've found Vaughan Streets in Willenhall, Coalville, Llandudno and in the USA...

Thanks Lloyd - that was a shame - technology eh!

Thank you - it all helps to remember what it was like 50 years ago and 100! Not much changed in between the two I suspect! D

Thank you so much. This is more than I've got at the moment. The nearest I've got at the moment is the Belle Vue, but the angle doesn't allow me to see the rest of Gerrard Street. D

Four years on from the last post - thank you Lyn, I'm researching Gerrard Street as I've discovered that my paternal grandmother, Edith Humphries, had a laundry at no 93 Gerrard Street, near to the Belle Vue pub in 1921. This site of this now sits under the Holte School (HML) campus in Wheeler...

Brummy-lad: Referring to your post 242, I spent quite a while studying your photographs as I am researching the Inner Circle bus route at the. moment. In your 1969 photograph the house nearest the camera is 112 Park Lane. The next block of four (116, 118, 120 & 120A) are the front houses of...

It's six years since the last post on here and the previous one was 12 years ago! But I'm researching the Inner Circle bus route (no8) and was wondering if anyone had a photograph of the original Shareholders Arms pub on Park Lane? I've found a few of the new one and of course the building is...

I'm a bit late replying to this thread, but no 63 in MikeJee's photograph is the shop on the left which, after Ida Mantle was there, was used as offices by Worthington's Coaches. Worthingtons bought the court of back-to-back houses to the left of the ones in the photograph, and demolished them...

Hi devonjim. That link does not work, but I found the page you referred to here: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/photographs/shopping-centres-built-by-laing/#f4840a2d

Hi. It's taken a while to get to grips with this original request for information about "a Station" pub on the Inner Circle (no.8) by a railway bridge. Most folk seem to have had an obsession with a pub of the same name in Selly Oak! But, I think that the pub in question is the Station Hotel on...

I'm a bit late replying to this, but the van with the "R" on the side wasn't Rackhams' (they were dark green). It was Rima Patisseries. Remember them?

There were 45 prefabs in Trehurst Avenue and they were called the UK100. This was the only post war prefab type not designed in the UK. It was made in the USA by the Tennessee Valley Authority from wood and a material called Homasote, which was in fact a cardboard based material. They were...

Thanks for your reply. What type of prefab did you live in?