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This is where the council SHOULD be stepping in and telling the developers they will not get planning permission for a new apartment block (which the markets area does not need) and that the markets building HAS to stay. Question is of course - when was this piece of land sold in the first...

Happy Birthday!!!

Bet there is a "sell off of land" in here somewhere to go into the councils "pay off our debts" fund.........

Super pictures!! Thanks for posting them!

The site of the colliery can be seen in this old photo taken from the Hawthorns Halt I think - it is in the middle of the line split (left to Stourbridge, right to Wolverhampton):- On these photos I took in the late 1970s the colliery would have been on the right:- These days the site is...

Answer to my own question is yes - I have glued your 1937 map to one I had of the station from the same time (probably the next bit of the same map):- Just trying to place the colliery in my own mind - sorry!!!

Mike - for the Smethwick maps - is the rail fork on the right the site of Hawthorns Halt Station - this would not appear until the 1930's as that is when it opened?

Well done Geoff! Excellent detective work!!!!! You would win the award (if we had one!) Can you lick/scan and post the whole article please? Interestingly the photo on the cover is not one of the ones I could find on Getty Images.

Well found Pedrocut! The Edgbaston and hairdresser bits tie in with the picture captions anyway - perhaps the whole photoshoot was part of the competition prize? I think the photos with the Midland Red bus stop in them were taken in Paradise St as you can just about see the Town Hall and...

Perhaps someone who has access to old newspaper / magazine archives can look up Picture Post from 1951? Sorry I do not have any more info..... Location wise this one may give a clue as there is some sort of a chapel in the background by the looks of it:- And she also seems to live on the top...

These photos were on Getty Images and seem to show a day in the life in 1951 of a lady called Betty Burden who, according to the details worked as a hairdresser and lived in somewhere called Back Chapel Court (possibly Back of Chapel Court) in Edgbaston (although it does not look much like...

These are photos from Picture Post found on the Getty Images website - all it says is Birmingham Fair 1959 so not 100% sure of the exact location

It certainly does not look like Edgbaston - but all I know is the caption that was on the photos. I will post them on a new thread.

We also have Birmingham Fair in 1959:- Plus the ones I already posted in the WW1 Women Workers thread.

The Getty Images site contains hundreds of photos originally taken for articles in Picture Post - here are some from 1951 featuring a young girl called Betty Burden who lived in Back Chapel Court in Edgbaston:- There are 38 of these photos in all covering a day in her life. I have already...