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The chap on the stepladders repairing the lamp made me smile.

While playing around with Photoshop last year, I got four different photos from four different periods and stitched them together. A few perspective problems but, it's a view many people will recognise. The other one is how it was in 2016.

Hi Phil, that has made my day!! Thank you so much.

Just read through this thread from page one and have enjoyed reading all the postings. Hope to see Lyn's original photos that were posted in 2008 when the website is fully restored. Has a photo of the shops directly opposite the toilets ( between New Spring St & Hingeston St ) ever been posted...

That first photo ( 118742 ) is of the corner of Charlotte St & St Pauls Square. In 1961, I had a mate who's Dad was some sort of caretaker in that building.

Great photos! The photo of Hockley ( 117560 ) shows a lorry in the foreground loaded with acid carboys. My first job in 1961 was in a plating factory in Hampton St, where I would have to unload those straight from the lorry down a plank to the pavement. Makes me shudder now to think how unsafe...

I'm 5 years late with this I know but the 3rd photo ( Phil #2 ) is definitely on the corner of Shadwell St & Bath St ( the junction of Snow Hill visible down the hill). I know this because in 1960, before I left school, I worked part time from that building on the corner. It was known as Rowland...

If that's David Cameron then that could be Harold Wilson striding towards him from the right.

It was known as "waiting to peg the clock". I was a bus driver 1970-73 and well remember waiting like this at the terminus. Actually, that clock, outside the Arden Oak pub together with the Cranes Park Rd clock were the clocks I "pegged" myself when I drove on the 58 & 60 route out of Coventry...

I can't post photos because my page asks for the URL reference and I cannot find any mention of URL in the properties. I use Windows 10 and use Adobe Photoshop to resize my photos.

Just up on the left hand side of Bath St on the corner of Shadwell St was where I started my part time job at Rowland Keen in the gun trade in 1960. They moved a few months later to Lincoln Jefferies shop in Steelhouse Lane because of the impending development of Snow Hill/Queensway Circle. I...

What a wonderful looking building!

Hi Lyn, just been looking through your photos on this thread. They are marvellous! Can I just say that the #19 photo was taken from Whitehead Street looking across High Street to Whitehead Road as you rightly say. You may remember how much of a stickler I am about the Whitehead Street thread as...

The lamp on the right of the photo was also a pub. Would I be correct in thinking it was The Greenaway?

I had an old frame sprayed in metallic green by H.V Powell when I was building up a bike in 1962. Quick release wheels, centre pull brakes and Campagnolia gear change which was the "Bees knees" at that time.Does anyone remember Cliff Peter's shop on the corner of Gerrard Street & Wilton Street...

The floor under the Ariel sign was D Section where I worked from 1963 until the BSA closed. The foreman's name was Bill Rushton.

Around 1959 at my school in Gower St, lozells, we had this craze where all us kids seemed to have a little Derringer cap gun keychain. It was the "must have" thing of the month ( or however long that particular craze lasted).

I had a toy in 1955 which was a tube of water about 12 inches high & 3 inches diameter. Inside was a little plastic deep sea diver and on the top was a rubber button/diaphragm so, when you pressed it down, the diver went to the bottom and when released, he came back up. I've never seen another...

Talking with my wife last night about the old area and what we used to get up to, I suddenly remembered the name of the surgery I used to go to from 1959 until 1967. Do any members remember Doctors Firth & Carolyn at the bottom of Wheeler St (where Great King St started). I'm sure that was their...