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They are quite common on the older churches, the ones that the Victorians didn’t modernise. The have been known as devils claw marks. Some people call then arrow sharpening groves. Edward III’s passed a law in 1363, stating that all able-bodied men aged between 16 and 60 must practice their...

Happy birthday Richard, have an amazing day

Its all gone now with houses built on the site

The original AJ Reeves went into liquidation late 1990’s quite sad really as they were in my opinion a leading specialist in Model Locos etc. The dissolved company was bought up by a guy who owned a car towbar a trailer manufacturing company in Tamworth and relocated it to a site near Appleby...

Pete, am I right in thinking that AJ Reeves the model engineering suppliers and makers of Moseley Road were involved with this club?

Happy birthday, have a super day

I wonder is this is the same group https://www.birminghamsme.co.uk/ Founded in 1936 and still going strong

There wasa guy who worked for the Houseing Department called Stan Crump who used to do lots of fencing arond Kingstanding

I used to work around Kingstanding as an apprentice and recall some of the people around Old Oscott Lane and Darleydale Avenue calling the area Little Russia. It certainly was incredibly cold working outdoor there. I also recall some resident telling me that the 30,000th house was in Greenwood...

Sorted, thanks Viv

Thats a thought, I have a feeling Aston Brook and Hockley Brook were one and the same

Interesting observation that Richard. I imagine in the day smoking was promoted as health benefit, the association between ill health and smoking had yet to be realised. I also think there were a lot of smokers, mainly men then too. A lot of shops did then tend to be quite single disciplined...

So you fired it up, ran it up to working pressure and if it didn’t blow you to smithereens it was jobs a good un.

Richard, I was looking at these two grave markers quite recently. If I hazard a guess by the dates, high pressure steam boilers were still in development and there were quite a few boiler accidents. I formed the impression that with all that stored energy, design and material flaws seemed to a...

I quite like stuff like this, not bogged down in pedantic detail so you get an overall all feel for the subject. It then makes history a place of possibility’s

There is quite a very nice history of the railways on the Historic England Blog today. It talks about railway development and the other offshoots the railways bought about like social infrastructure, railway towns and holiday resorts. I never knew that our beloved Weston-super-Mare was a...

Yes, looks like the Swan Inn on the left, that lamp was quite iconic. The Abbey steeple in the distance. Looks like just before the wall around the village green was built, but the monument commemorating of the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 is there with its lamppost. I did not know it had a...

The garden walls also look like Gravely Hill too

For a moment I thought that looks like Gravely Hill, but I am wondering if its Sutton Road before the Lyndhurst Estate was built.

I don’t recall anything of notable interest being demolished in Erdington, just to odd few small houses etc. Erdington was also where there was a lot of social housing built in the 1920’s, most it seems built on farmland