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According to my notes this photograph in Desford Road is of the Hope Family and was taken in the late 1940s. To the best of my knowledge all the post war prefabs that were supplied under the Temporary Housing Programme had refrigerators.

The prefabs in these photographs were the AIROH – which stands for Aircraft Industries Research Organization on Housing. One of Churchill’s objectives was to use factories that had been engaged in the war effort to help create the new Temporary Houses. So, the aircraft manufacturers were...

It's been a while since this was posted, but we use the photograph at the end of our prefabs talk called "Those Damn Tin Cans" This is what we say about the photographs and living in prefabs in the 1950s: "This is probably the best known “prefab” photograph of the era. It’s Hector Murdoch's...

Most local authorities, such as Solihull (in the case of the Olton prefabs) had maybe just one or two sites for their prefab allowance. Birmingham was different, they had a couple of large sites (for instance Druids Heath) but most of the city's allowance was put on the edges of parks, playing...

I have attached a map from around 1950 showing the 10 prefabs that were built on the site in Umberslade Road. The reason that there was gap here was that development took place different developers bought small plots, and I suspect that this one did move forward.

The place with the fancy stone facade is the old County Court and the one with the arched windows is Pitman House. both are still there. Here's a photograph looking in the other direction with the Victoria Law Courts & Central Hall in the distance - both terracotta brick masterpieces!

I'd care to resurrect this thread as I've just been looking in to this (for the second time). Originally I was confused by the "Hillfield Farm in Hall Green" label, knowing full well that Hillfield was the name of the area between Solihull town centre and Monkspath. Looking at the second pair of...

I thought I'd kickstart this thread again, as it seems there is some work going on. Last year Birmingham City University (BCU) published a drawing of the proposed building for the Belmont Works site incorporating the original facade. Work is due to be completed by 2021. Scaffolding has now gone...

Thank you for the new photograph. Given that practical photography was not really available until the mid 19th century I think a date of 1829 is unlikely. I suspect that both of these were taken probably around 1900 just before the pub was demolished in 1901.

I'm looking for some help with a photograph that I've found. It claims to be the Red Lion on Soho Road, Handsworth in 1929. The clothes the bowler hatted gent is wearing gets the date about right, but the new Red Lion which is listed, is still there but abandoned was built in 1901. Does anyone...

We frequently drop into The Shakespeare for a bite to eat when we are going to the Coffin Works, or Symphony Hall. Good pub grub!

Just been searching for photographs or information on The Navigation Inn on Tyburn Road at the junction with Bromford Lane. The architect's drawing of the "Navi" is most likely the original one which stood on Bromford Lane. The map here is from 1905 and shows the pub at its original location...

I'm resurrecting this thread in the hope that someone has some photographs of the Penfold Factory on Bromford Lane. The ones that have evidently been posted when the thread started, were deleted some time ago. We are refreshing our Outer Circle Talks for Local History Groups etc and looking for...

I think that you are referring to the Greet Inn pub. Yes, it's been gone now for over ten years. No one living around there to use it! This was it in 1988.

Tracline 65 was the experimental guided bus system that was laid in 1984 to take buses on a concrete track of about 600 metres from Stockland Green along Streetly Road to Short Heath. This was the first of these systems in the UK and was used to test how ell the system worked. A new fleet of...

Eight years after the post I've just read about "The Unicorn" on Holloway Head which stood on the corner of Speaking Stile Walk, opposite Washington Street, I've put together this small collection. The first photograph is dated 1964, the second is a map from 1950 showing the "PH" on the corner...

I think that the "prefab shops" on Castle Lane & Lode Lane were Nissen Huts. The prefabs on the rest of the site were of the Arcon MkV type that were clad with asbestos. This is the same type as the one that is now preserved at Avoncroft Museum near to Bromsgrove, that originally was sited at 85...

Looking at pjmburn's post it seem that the film shown at the Rialto on 18th April 1953 was "House of Wax". It is described as follows: "House of Wax is a 1953 American color 3-D horror thriller film, about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and...

Welcome Steven. I remember most of the shops you mention, as well as the 32 bus. I lived at the bottom of Cubley Road near to the Rialto and remember it being demolished and replaced with MacFisheries. The same building is now Poundstretcher, the latest of many names that the supermarket has had...

Take a look at post #643.