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Yes. I am aware of that sir, but is that what this building is now?

Not terribly interesting, but has anyone any idea about the current functionality this lovely old building, still standing proudly in Corporation Street, but not having any perceivable use to this boy ? It has 'County Court' as a frieze....and no doubt when built in 1880 by James Williamson...

Apart from the Golden Eagle...I did a bit some time ago about an old Pub on the other side of Hill Street (photo included).....I think mikejee sorted it's name.....but I am so doddery now, can't remember!...and here are a few photos that show a few oldies mentioned by Joe McKenna....maybe...

Great info lads and lasses...knew you would fix it....had a suspicion it was a 'foreigner'...! You lot really are special.....with grateful thanks.....it's a bit like that Broad Street...Wolverhampton pic that puzzled some folk yonks ago....

Someone on another Channel posted this pic of an old pub in Hill Street.....the 'ORIGINAL' QUEEN'S HEAD.....with no comment....now it is not mentioned in McKenna's Pubs of Brum books, and I can so far find no mention of it anywhere at all.....the old drawings and paintings of Hill Street...

Utterly amazing ....! Thanks so much....all completely new to this boy......so grateful...

Another query for mikejee......The Market House.....No 4 on Bucks vista.....never quite sure perzackerly where or what this was...? Any pics or ideas....anyone can help me...?

Thank you so much....you never let us down!

Sorry I'm a bit late with this query to mikejee.......where oh where did this clip come from that you posted on this thread....I thought it was from Westley or Thomas Archer, but I now don't think so....not one of my many vistas I have collected....? Cheers mike....? (he said crossing his fingers)

Thanks so much all of you who responded....great information....

Good day folks...I have a query as to who painted this MAGNIFICENT depiction of Brum life in the back to backs in the 40s or 50s? Thanks...

You may like to see a speech that Mr Joe Jordan...a now retired eminent Gynaecologist from the Women's Hospital gave to the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology about Lawson Tait.... Henri De Mondeville, writing in the 14th century, listed the qualities of the ideal surgeon. He said “and...

Thanks so much Pedro...absolutely brilliant.....

And to clarify any confusion betwixt Pipe Hall and Pype Hayes Hall...here's the history of PYPE HAYES HALL.. Pype Hayes Hall Pype Hayes is situated some two miles north-east of Pype. A sub-manor of Erdington, it was possibly so-named because it was at one time part of the manor of Pype, which...

May I add to Pedro's brilliant piece on Wood End House.... Pipe/ Pype, Pype Hall Pipa: first record c1290 In Old English pipa means 'a water channel', the implication being that it is man-made. However, it is not known what or where this feature was. It may have related to the medieval moated...

MIDDLETON HALL B78......On the way to Fazeley and Tamworth....a fascinating insight into three important Families of old. The Rays, the Willoughbys, and the Peels.....the visitors keep the place going, plus the amazing volunteers....Nature and Nurture perfectly aligned......well worth a visit!

Hay Hall Memorials to the Hays and the Ests in the Gilbey Chapel of Yardley Church introduce us to three families who lived nearly two miles distant at Hay Hall beside the River Cole, in what is now the Tyseley industrial area. Come there, to the works of Reynolds Tube Co. Ltd. Every day you...

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Red House Park is a public park in Great Barr, Sandwell, England. Within the park is The Red House, a country housebuilt in the 1841 for the then Liberal MPfor Walsall, Robert Wellbeloved Scott, and stood in his 27-acre estate. Since 17 June 1996 it has been a Grade II listed building. It uses...

Gilbertstone It is unknown where the name actually came from but a local legend states that a man named Gilbert lifted an enormous stone to move the boundaries between his and another person's land so that he could gain more land. The supposed stone, which is an erratic from the Ice Age, is now...