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Sue...This is the Buffs in the Richmond Gents Only....and I think Mr Spann, the sweetshop owner, is in this pic somewhere...at least my old Dad said he was....he's in the corner seat....

Blimey....cheers Pedro.....takes me back a bit...I did do some digging for Manley Hall et al....and these are some pics I found.........hope they help....

Gulp....who'd have thought? Cheers....

My first thought....and you are probably right, but it looks very convincing?

Came across this great photo of an old Brummie Bus...and noticed in the background a Pub that had a really weird name...Ye Dolls Head..???? Said to be on the corner of Laurel Road in Halesowen , by the Wilkinson's building.......now gone, but never seen or heard of such a funny pub name....or...

Came across these shots of the old High Street when researching the Midland Arcade, and as I have a love of Old Lamps, USUALLY outside old pubs, I wondered what the heck this lovely building with these three beauties. which appear to next to No 30 High Street, on the right of the photo, is or...

Many thanks Eric......I will pass it on....and may I say how much I love this epic scene! As a John Atkinson Grimshaw fan, I love those wet pavements and murky skies! Cheers

Eric, my hero, thanks so much......! He was nearly as good as you my friend! So sad we have lost such a talent....I posted it on a FB blog and got so many likes it was unreal, and lots of requests for copies, framed or otherwise.....may I put some of yours up for admiration?

Yep, I thought it might be George Busby, but can't find a definite copy of this in his stuff on the internet...hopefully something will turn up....? Many thanks though RR......

Can anyone identify the artist of this lovely pic? I think it may be Busby or Bigley?

Thanks folks...great sleuthing as per...!

Fascinating Spoon and Fork manufactory.....in Bartholomew Street, which is mostly gone now......anyone ever heard of it......know any more about it? Looks dead cool with all that going on in the back yard....

Wow...you lot are phenomenal....thanks so much for simply bothering....it shows the depth of research knowledge that no other site even begins to emulate! Doffs cap....exits left very satisfied.....

Thanks lads.....much appreciated....

I am doing a piece on Edmund Street, and just love this old photo of the buildings betwixt Margaret Street and Congreve Street...In the first photo you can see the lovely Norwich Union Building on the left, and in the rather run down buildings there appears to be a building with what I think is...

Hovis Brown....remember him well...here's my five pennerth.. But most of all, God with a comic sense of paradox he is not generally noted for, sent us the ultimate in a soft-target dummy to teach us his works. The Reverend 'Hovis' Brown. Complete with his dog collar and a lugubrious face like a...

GRIMSHAW HALL This elaborately timbered yeoman farmhouse dates from the middle of the 16th century. The Grimshaw family, after whom the house is named, lived there from around 1635 until 1765. The house is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Fanny Grimshaw, murdered in her bedroom by a...