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Not in the Midlands I don't think, but set it to series record on Freeview. https://www.channel5.com/show/inside-the-steam-train-museum/

Lapal Canal as it is now in Selly Oak Park. A bit overgrown.

Too young to have served in WW2 then?

A view in that general direction last year (April 2019). I've not been back to Victoria Square in more than 2 months (or the City Centre).

It was recast in bronze by William Bloye in 1951. Was originally marble.

No, none. I think there was workmen next to The MAC where the outdoor arena was though. And a council lawnmower.

Got some new photos as lockdown restrictions were eased so we went to Cannon Hill Park this morning.

This sign is in the Sarehole Mill Car Park. Seen in April 2009. Last I saw of it yesterday, the trees were overgrown over it.

No problem Maurice. Do you miss living in the UK? Yesterday at the College Arms saw this: And this was on the wall near the new extension to a shop (close to the Blackberry Way).

The modern 41 went on the Stratford Road, then went down School Road, Hall Green around a weird route around Gospel Oak towards Solihull. They changed it the 41A and 41C in the 2000s (didn't last long), which only went to Solihull. The 41 stopped going beyond the College Arms to the City Centre...

If you are on the bus going down the hill on the Stratford Road between Hall Green and Sparkhill (Springfield), the Greet Mill Meadow would be on the left. Then the Blackberry Way is on the right. They were probably renamed by the Council in the last 20 or so years when they developed the...

In the last couple of decades we have lost the 31 and 41 bus routes that used to go past here. Although a version of the 31 goes from Acocks Green to Solihull. There used to be a 37 on the Warwick Road, but that is now the 4 and 4A (from Gospel Oak). The 1 goes to Five Ways, the 1A to the QE...

The first three photos were taken from what is now called the Greet Mill Meadow. Part of the Shire Country Park. Near the Stratford Road is this large grassy area. The Blackberry Way is on the other side of the Stratford Road. There are paths that goes all the way from Yardley Wood...

I think at the time of the fire, I heard about bus diversions, so the 1, 1A and 6 would have had to go a different way at the time. Hopefully they can repair it. Put sprinklers in or something.

I took some new photos of the Stratford Road Bridge from the Greet Mill Meadow while on my daily walk on lockdown. This was before going into the Blackberry Way. Saw a rat. No bill posting. Plaque Took these after coming back from the Blackberry Way.

Got a photo today of Mughal & Azam (the former Sparkhill Congregational Church) from the Greet Mill Meadow. Was a roof fire several months ago.

Got this photo of The Old Fox Theatre Bar near the Arcadian that I took back in January 2011.

Lockdown walk to Shaftmoor Lane. Nothing much new at the demolition site. There is also a new car valet place on the land opposite. Saw this Union Jack on May Day.

The train is faster to Walsall. Bus takes over an hour. Depending on which route you go on. Only hot a bus all the way to Walsall once years ago and it took ages. One of the 9XX routes.

King Edward VI High School for Girls was briefly down here in the Liberal Club building (built 1885). They moved in 1887. Land behind the Hen & Chickens Hotel was bought in 1892, and there new school opened there in 1896 (on New Street). Current site of the Odeon Cinema. The school moved to...