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Found this fascinating photo on the internet. It says it was July 1963 It obviously features the old Bull Ring in the centre. Just to the right of it is the old market hall (with no roof) that I believe was bombed in WW2. This had been demolished before I moved to Birmingham. To the right of...

I just noticed this from a couple of weeks ago so the comment below may be too late, but it may be useful to others. There is no such thing as a "fixed" Broadband speed, your Broadband speed will vary for all sorts of reasons. It can depend on the time of day, how busy the internet is, how...

Too late for me. I had hundreds of photos in Photobucket "hot linked" to the SkyscraperCity web site and many other web sites. When they made this announcement I removed all my photos from Photobucket and shut down my account. I moved some photos to Flickr and updated the web site link but...

This is a VERY good point. Most people use a small minority of the function in Windows and just want a basic version of Windows that works. As far as I am aware since Windows 10 came out there have been 5 major updates to Windows 10 (code named Threshold 2 and Redstone 1, 2 3 and 4, which is...

Drastic steps indeed. I reinstall Windows on a fairly regular basis and it is often a lot of work, particularly reinstalling all the apps afterwards.

Note that Windows 10 Version 1803 has started shipping. This is a complete replacement of Windows 10 (it was known as the "Spring Creators Update" but is now called the "Windows 10 April 2018" update) Note not everyone will get it straight away, it will be phased out over the next few weeks...

I do sometimes get fed up with the "it was much better in my day" attitude on this web site. It has ALWAYS been about business and money. Why do you think Mathew Boulton set up his business in Birmingham, to make money. What was used to build all the canals in the area, money of course. Why...

The W H Smiths in Birmingham city centre has not really closed down, they have just moved round the corner in to an empty unit in Union Street, the old BHS store I think.

I don't think there will ever be residential on this site. Even the residential buildings that were planned for the Arena Central site nearby has now been changed to office space. There will be building work on this Paradise site for many years to come, the current completion date for the last...

Posting this again as I realised I posed it in the wrong topic first time. Around the HS2 site in Park St they have now erected large fencing as they are having an archaeology dig, then preparing the site for the station build. Fixed to these hoardings are number of images, including this map...

Around the HS2 site in Park St they have now erected large fencing as they are having an archaeology dig, then preparing the site for the station build. Fixed to these hoardings are number of images, including this map below which I found very interesting (I have shown the modern equivalent...

I guess your comment about "not many left" was tongue in cheek because Birmingham still has many fine buildings. Sadly the city does have a poor reputation when it comes to architecture, but when I walk around Colmore Row, Waterloo St, Bennetts Hill and surrounding roads I still see many fine...

Can I say one other thing. Note I am 68 years old so no spring chicken. But I do see a lot of nostalgia on this forum, the feeling that everything was better "back then". Now I am from London and moved to Birmingham with my company back in 1979 and have lived in the area ever since. (Note...

>most of my camera time is spent capturing our older buildings Astoness, thanks for the reply. I also capture photos of the lovely old buildings in Birmingham and I am aware of course of the demolition of Josiah Mason college and many other fine buildings in Birmingham in the 1960s and 1970s...

I am sorry to disagree but I go round Birmingham a lot taking photographs and a few years ago most of this "Arena Central" site was AWFUL. I am sure Ell has some photos to show how bad it was Central TV had moved out leaving a crumbling and derilict building, down Bridge St there was a horrible...

Note it is Register Office not Registry Office. The project on that whole site is called Arena Central and on the link below is a map showing the plan for the site. https://arena-central.com/development/masterplan/ The building on the old Register Office site (where I got married) is shown as...

Carillion were building One Chamberlain Square and work on that has stopped. However Carillion were also providing all the Health and Safety support for the WHOLE site so no work could go on anywhere on the site until that was sorted. However that has now been sorted out and demolition of...

Sadly this area has gone downhill a lot from back then. Tesco have gone of course, replaced by an Argos, which has since been replaced by a B&M. Some of the shops on the right are now pretty tatty. The horrible brown car park on the right in the distance is still there (with the big white P)...

Took me a while to figure out where this was. Of course it is pedestrianized now (as is New St you are standing in). New St station in the distance of course, though now looking totally different with its shiny silver covering. Really glad people took photos of these "ordinary" things to...

This photo below shows Pinfold St coming up from New St station. This road is currently closed while they lay the new tram track. In future trams will leave Stephenson St (in the distance, outside New St station) come up Pinfold St, go along Paradise St, then over to Broad St where there will...