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Or even better...here...in this 1858 drawing...?

Maybe it's here somewhere..?

A huge puzzle to me...hoping someone can help? This is an extract from a piece I'm preparing of the history of the Eye Hospitals in Brum....." Joseph Hodgson, a British eye surgeon, started his campaign to open an eye hospital in Birmingham in October 1823. Six months later, in April 1824...

Some nice old photies.....

Magnificent response to my queries.....you lot are just so reliable and fun...many many thanks....

There are other views.....

Can anyone name the four statues featured here in Chamberlain Square....and the approx date of this photo....pretty please....?

What a team! Thank you so much for your kind efforts....brilliant stuff...

This first pic was posted elsewhere some time ago....can anyone identify the roads surrounding this building....which I have never seen any other photo of? Looks an impressive building....I think it may have been in Montague Street...like the entrance shot also included?

The Station history is interesting....and I hope the rumour of some of it coming back into service and connected to New Street comes to fruition...meanwhile....for the record..... Birmingham Snow Hill Snow Hill was once the main station of the Great Western Railway in Birmingham, and at its...

Just to add a little to the Hill Street conundrum....here's a bit about the National School in Pinfold Street....and a pic for reminders.... BIRMINGHAM NATIONAL SCHOOL, PINFOLD STREET. Established 1812. The lease of a site on the N.W. side of Pinfold St., between Lower Temple St. and Peck Lane...

I know we have done CLEVE TERRACE on here before.....but this first shot of a school on there amazed me......never seen nor suspected it's existence....lurking in Cleve Terrace all those years ago...King Edwards Girl School....later KEGS for Girls Handsworth, my daughter's alma mater......she...

That's because I'm an old dweeb David..posted the wrong one...sigh.....will try to do better...promise! This is the one I should have posted.....

Wow....Viv was right...The sign says Old Church Meeting Rooms.......allegedly......and it is the entrance to the rear of Christ Church School in Pinfold Street....hence the kids and office workers I suppose....the pub further down (not in shot, but on the maps) is said to be the Samson and Lion...

OMG....long time no been on....lost boy!...BUT....you are my only hope Phil or mike........Hill Street....ages ago......a PUB...the Old "Summat or Other"..? Any ideas....promise to behave and play nicely....HELP!!! ...and learn how to put photos on etc.....

Thought not Mike....and that's plenty good enough for me...I will write and tell her ! many thanks for your time....

Probably not the right place, but move if it's not...I am seeking a little help from the sleuths and experts within, on a long standing interest I have in the Vernon Family of Hanbury Hall....and a fascinating (to me) Brum connection....featuring a Pub or Inn (naturally)...so here's a bit of a...

just a quickie...near to Blakesley Hall...does anyone have any info or, perish the thought, a picture, of Rockingham House and The Oaks, featured here on this 1920 Map of Yardley?

Interesting piece from the Faces and Places magazine from 1890 refers...for Devonjim..? ABOUT thirty-five years ago a building which now forms the main portion of the Prince of Wales' Theatre was erected in Broad Street. It was in 1856 that a joint stock company was formed to build a hall in...

Hi lads and lasses...who's up for a challenge??? David Benbow...expat BHF member living in Salerno, Italy, challenged me to remember a photo on here somewhere, of a photo and long discussion, about some children sitting on a wall in ?Paternoster Row. looking down on the GWR line, with a Castle...