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This photograph in #65 must have been taken from the back windows of the building that is now "The Green Room" (no 67 Snow Hill?). Honduras Wharf is on the other side of Snow Hill down Clive Passage. See my picture in #64. DAVID

Thanks again for this link. Yes I have read the Norman Field pages - this one about 20 Snow Hill and the photograph is what started me off on this quest. The rest of the site is a good read too, especially if you have an interest in old 78s, brass bands etc. There is a link to recording of...

Thanks Viv. The theatre that you're thinking of was on the site of the YMCA hostel (now called The Snow Hill). The original theatre was built in 1885 as the New Star Theatre of Varieties. It later became the Queen's Theatre and Opera House then The Metropole Theatre which was made...

Once again Brumgum you've found another classic. What was the mortality rate in Bull Street in 1946? Jaywalking seems to be taken to a new level!!!!! So Many buses, and so many people waiting for them - patiently. Most of this was filmed in Bull Street where the BCT mobile canteen was in the...

Thanks Viv - you do track down some STUFF!! The buildings in the fore-ground are standing in Weaman Street (I think). If you look to the right of the Weaman Street buildings there is a cluster of buildings in front of the station and I suspect that the darker one is probably the post office. In...

Thanks once more Brumgum - I've taken that photo & labeled up a few locations. You can just see the cores of the two towers that were never built and the block where dad's business was - now used as a contractors yard. My photo was taken a couple of weeks ago (October 2013) from the contractors'...

That's another great photo - thanks Brumgum. The building to the left is now called The Snow Hill, it was the YMCA and is now a hostel. This is the site of the Metropole Theatre/Cinema which was bombed & demolished during the WW2. The building over the canal was Metro Tyre in the 1950s (see the...

Lyn - thanks for posting this photo, it's one of my favourites too - I've used it as the header for my Snow Hill website/blog (work in progress!!) www.SnowHillBirmingham.info There is so much going on here. Starting on the right, out of frame to the right was the site of the theatre, later a...

Maurice - thanks for the close-up of the Jungle. If you look at my post #46 you'll see the story of how the Jungle came to be there - with help from "Mickymoo". The "Drainpipes" sign is a leftover from Len Dymond's days when he ran the premises as a tailor's shop. DAVID

Mickymoo - thanks for that bit of info - this is just the sort of story that I'm looking for. The tailor was Len Dymond and in this 1953 photo you can see his name on the vertical board above the shop to the left of Timpsons. It seems that the photo was taken when he was holding a "Closing Down...

Brumgum - thanks for the link. The video is very good - they obviously had a clear vision of how the new buildings were going to look - even down to the grass where the metro trams were going to run. Though the video was made seven years ago the buildings look remarkably like their vision on the...

Richie - Thanks for the photo - grim isn't it? Yes the cobbles mark the entrance to the old Parcels Depot. The photo was taken from a spot right on the corner of Great Charles Street. As a child I would have walked down here on my way to my dad's factory which was on the other side of Great...

Thanks Viv. The shops on the other side of Snow Hill were in a line of the new office blocks One Snowhill & Two Snowhill. Snow Hill Queensway was built roughly on the line of Slaney Street (no longer with us) which ran down the side of the Gaumont parallel to Snow Hill & Weaman Street. This 1949...

Terry - thanks for that photo - I've not seen it before. So much to see. So little traffic! Greys department store building is still there. Smoke & steam from the trains in the station and is that the back of the original Wesleyan & General building in Steelhouse Lane that we can see on the...

Viv - there were just four "shops" under Snow Hill station in the picture in #20 but they were specialist engineering companies. In the 1956 Kellys they were listed as: 116 - The Tool Production & Design Company 117/8 - The Birmingham Power Transmissions Limited 120 - Reid Watt Limited - Motor...

Horsencart - thanks for the 1980s photo - it just goes to show what devastation a bit of demolition can cause. You can clearly see the original Snow Hill with the parking meters still there and the site of the new office blocks being used as a car park. The station was a car park too. It was...

Horsencart - thanks for the 1980s photo - it just goes to show what devastation a bit of demolition can cause. You can clearly see the original Snow Hill with the parking meters still there and the site of the new office blocks being used as a car park. The station was a car park too. It was...

Maurice - just found a picture of Snow Hill looking north from the Great Western Hotel in 1959 - it shows the Wimpy in all its glory! I think that the Jungle is where the canopies are pulled out over the footpath to the left of the lamp post. DAVID

Ell - thanks for your photo - yes that was the line of the original Snow Hill (in fact I took an almost identical photo last weekend). The footprint of the current Snow Hill station is virtually identical to the original although the platforms are further north under the car park on the left in...

Maurice - thanks for your post #3 (you were quick off the mark!). I've found this photo of the Jungle Cafe which appears to be no 18 (the numbering in Snow Hill ran down from Steelhouse Lane to the northern end then back up the other side, rather than odds on one side and evens on the other)...