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A heartbreaking place... The Asylum for the Infant Poor. Summer Lane..... In 1797, an "Asylum for the Infant Poor" was opened an Asylum Road, at the east side of Summer Lane. William Hutton's 1836 History of Birmingham records that: "The Asylum for the Infant Poor, established in Summer Lane...

Pretty bland really, but some folk may like this tale of an old Birmingham bookshop.....me? I LOVE em....! The bookselling and publishing business known as the Chaucer Head Bookshop was founded John Cadby in 1830. It was originally located at 74 New Street, Birmingham. William Downing was...

Spurred on by a plaintive post by a Jeanie Ellis on another blog, who posted an Emigration Form for her old Great Uncle, Jim Cooper...who was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada from the Middlemore Homes in 1905, for a 'better life'.......so I turned to Peter Higginbotham for some more info...

My God. I feel I’ve lost a family Member......so sad. RIP Alan. My heartfelt sorrow for his family. Xx

What good news......I have every respect for Waverley Grammar grubs...a couple of my school mates passed for there....and I would LOVE any pics of my hero Viv.......and just because I can.....here's a snippet from my memories of that wonderful building....... CAMP HILL YEARS 1953 – 1956 In 1953...

Brilliant stuff Pedrocut...Many thanks...

This is so sad......a truly irreplaceable Brum Historian....love him to bits...

Well. That’s a step forward. I can live with that! Cheers.

Have done, but no luck....just as in your post clip....thanks anyway...

Thanks once more for your help Lads. I guess we’ll never know for sure, but your guess Phil is my best bet too.... a narrow passage into old New Street by the side of the Toll Booth, and no drawings of Leather Hall ... I can live with it. Regards to all.....

Thanks Pedrocut....great clips....thanks....most helpful....as ever....

Consider myself chastised....sorry Sir....must do better.......

Cheers Phil....you can see this Toll Booth thingy on Bernard Sleigh's map circa 1730.....but no archway....maybe he'd had a few sherberts the day he penned this?

Whilst doing a pile on Brum Prisons, I came across Will Hutton's take on the old Welch Cross and it's role as a hell hole....complete with Stocks etc.....this is what he wrote: After the fall of the de Bermingham family, one of the lower rooms of the Leather Hall in New Street was used as a...

Doh! I must be blind....much thanks for the info...once again you do it in no time at all...I am in awe.....still!

Two stories of Yardley, and our neighbourhood, from my 93 year old Uncle, Les Hutton, of his and others’ experiences during the Blitz in the second World War…. The First one is an event also described by and Air Raid Warden, John V Abbott, in his book RAIDERS PAST….a book about his experiences...

St Martins Church...Bull Ring....Just found this clip from Showell's Dictionary whilst searching for summat else.....and I have never heard of the Old Cock Pump before, and there is nowt in any refs I have......but there was an Old Pump Tavern in the Bull Ring....at No. 8 and a half Bull Ring...

What brilliant information...as per....knew you lot would sort it....many thanks! The very best site for all Brum History!

<cough>....well, looking at Graham Knight's (O.C) pics of the Grand Theatre, Corporation Street, he posted two pics that also show my mystery building as well......still no nearer what it was.....

I was doing a bit on The Old Square, mostly stolen from the an article in the Birmingham Faces and Places magazine of 1889, and the Winter Gardens poked it’s head round the door in a photo….and then another mystery developed….so, let me explain…..my interest started in these pics of The Old...