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I looked on that before I posted, and the one main pic is, as you say Maurice, the current google view....would love to see it now...!

Ah yes…Your contempt comes shining through, as ever….but silly me for trusting Historic England for using such out of date info to confuse you….so sorry….

Lovely shots here of a little lost Victorian soul in a sea of surrounding modernity....the Canal Warehouse (Off Charlotte Street), which is Grade 2 Listed, so protected....Former warehouse, now part of museum complex.The building formed part of the extensive Elkington Mason and Company's works...

A wee bit late...<cough>....but here's summat I found on the old LVA...... .

Yep...rebuilt a few times! This is an old map of the Queen's Head next door to the old Ebenezer Chapel.....and some info from Web.....The map is from Mikejee.... The ill-conceived Inner Ring Road of the 1960s tore through the old Gun Quarter. To make sense, the Quarter is treated as a whole...

Amazing.

WROXHALL ABBEY The history of Wroxall Abbey Hotel is a rich and varied one beginning in the 12th Century and continuing to evolve to the present day. It was founded c.1135 by Hugh, Lord of Hatton and Wroxall in thanks for his release from seven years' imprisonment in Jerusalem during the...

BYNGAS HALL .....Bingley Hall to us youngsters... I think Broad Street wasn’t even named until between 1795 and 1808, and it must have been the arrival of the canals in 1771 that sparked an interest in this outlying reach of the city. As suggested prior to then it might have been known as Pig...

For Homoeopaths....whomsoever they may be...... On or about the year 1796, Hahnemann published his famous "Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Remedial Powers of Medicines," and modern homoeopathy—a system of medicine which has for its formula "Similia similibus curentur " ("Let likes...

Part 2 of the above MR. HUDDLESTON. Q. How would the ropes go if a person did not follow that rule? A. If they do not follow that rule there must be some mischief—they ought to follow it—it is a rule well known among the boatmem—there are public notices of it at every toll-clerk's office—there...

Just in case anyone was thinking of towing canal boats by hand...a salutory lesson....PART 1...... A story about my old family connections to the Black Country and the Canals....Issac Bridges-Boatman...GGGGfather... read on... ....our scene now shifts to THE OLD BAILEY. London, 1847 Reference...

A few photos gathered over the years of the iconic Brum landmark St Martin's Church....to go with those above....and a bit of history.... The present Victorian church was built on the site of a 13th-century predecessor, which was documented in 1263. The church was enlarged in medieval times and...

These majestic horses galloping through the sea may look real but are in fact made from thousands of pieces of driftwood salvaged from the shore. The life-size sculptures are the work of Birmingham-based master craftsman James Doran-Webb, 46, who spent a painstaking six months assembling them...

Here's one of mine...some may not agree?! Must admit...never heard of this bloke....but his story fascinated me when I saw it on another site...a Brummie Blagger.....wish I had his cheek! Great amusing read just for the musos he met and caroused with... "KING OF THE BLAGGERS - JAMES HURST"...

Another pleasant reminisce…remember going to see the Dada when he was in Warwick Hospital awhile back now, and we came home a back way, looking to end up in Kenilworth in a more scenic way….and stumbled upon this lovely Restaurant, the Saxon Mill….and so began a love affair with nearby GUYS...

THE EASTCOTES Going up Barston Lane, on the way to Hampton, you come to the crossroads at Knowle Road….and that is roughly the district known as Eastcote….and therein lies a tale….a tale of a cornucopia of super duper Houses, Manors, and Halls that all lie within a few hundred yards of each...

Following on from my post on the Dudley Guest, and Russells Hall Hospitals... Corbett Hospital is a National Health Service (NHS) hospital run by The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust located in Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England. The current hospital is an out-patient centre which...

Dudley Guest Hospital The Dudley Guest Hospital is a hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England, part of The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Victorian origins Situated in Tipton Road, Dudley the buildings were originally constructed as almshouses in 1849 by the Earl of Dudley to...

Regarding the Tivoli, Swan and New Inn Living in South Yardley all my childhood, now some forty odd years in Church Road Yardley, you may understand why I have such a like of the Swan Pub and it's environs, at the junction with Church Road, and Coventry Road.....a significant part of my Bowls...

In the words of the amazing Peter Walker "In pre-reformation days, the care of the sick had been handled by the monasteries and convents, and some institutions such as St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. In Birmingham the General...