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45ft from the 453ft Birmingham Level to the 408ft Walsall Level

Front and back covers of the match programme ...

This is a pic of Old Oak Common I took from the Grand Union last summer. The Elizabeth Line trains are lined up to the right but out of shot, if you look at Google maps they are visible.

Just to provide some balance to all this HS2 propaganda, here the same company is destroying a line of oak trees in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Can't have been the Arts Lab which was originally in a fairly grotty part of Newtown and then moved to Gosta Green.

The programme cover and list of films from the Arts Lab in 1979.

Richard Vinen was a guest on Start The Week (Radio 4) this morning contributing to a programme devoted to Birmingham. It's a good listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001byjc

I've noticed that having done their best to ignore the city since the demise of Pebble Mill, the BBC have shown a little more interest in the city recently i.e. the Back In Time series and there was a repeat of 'Birmingham Irish I Am' last night on BBC Four. Is this due to the publicity...

Are the HS2 propagandists who produce these films also celebrating HS2's destruction of or threat to 693 Classified Local Wildlife Sites, 33 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, 108 Ancient Woods and 18 Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves?

In the words of the great Brummie Tony Hancock from 'The Blood Donor', my DNA test only confirmed that I was 'Anglo Saxon with perhaps a dash of Viking'. I only took it for fun but I was disappointed there were no other exotic connections.

I learnt today that this is called 'bidialectalism' i.e. using a different dialect depending on the context in which you find yourself.

What a admirable project, when I first saw this memorial I couldn't quite believe the number of casualties from Aston and the third soldier on your list epitomizes the senselessness of wars that are mostly the result of politicians' egos and their reckless ambitions: Percy Alcock, died on the...

Sid Field

I'm confused by those directions. Coming from town, by the time the 42 reached St. Mary's College (a seminary rather than a monastery) it would have already passed the Crossways pub. After WMPTE extended the route from the top of Collage Road to Six Ways, the bus turned right onto the Chester...

Thanks Dave, I know that the person applying for the licence was an electrical engineer working for the GEC so perhaps had a personal and professional interest in the development of radio.

Here's a letter from the GPO in February 1923 authorising the installation of 'a station for receiving wireless signals for experimental purposes' at a house in The Broadway, Handsworth. There are several conditions of use including the external aerial 'shall not exceed 100 feet' and the...

These are fabulous photographs, the grim weather and monochrome landscape hasn't dulled the kids' enthusiasm at making the best of poor circumstances. And the one inside the pub could have come straight from an 'Ansells Bittermen' advertisement.

If like me you live directly in HS2's path in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty you would want it to go through the longest possible tunnel.

Graffitiartist.com is based in the Custard Factory. This is a news story from 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45790672

I'm not endorsing their activity in the least but some of the graffiti 'artists' are clearly quite talented. I was astonished at how they had managed to cover this enormous blank canvas near to the Soho Foundry and, on my way back, three were carefully and quite skillfully finishing it off. I...