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Only just seen this...I ran the Cytology Training School at the Matty since 1968 when it opened! Before that we were down the Drive in the Research block from 1960.....we got our Training School status in 1963....worked with Dr Di Rimmer on the accursed Vickers Machine for some time....and...

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Cheers Viv. Reliable as ever...!

Oh you beauty! Cheers lyn....nice one!

Someone posted this pic on a Brum Pubs blog, captioned it Hill Street 1903......now I seriously doubt that from the frontage alone....and it's not mentioned by Joe McKenna.....anyone any ideas of where?

Cheers Phil....Yep.....maybe a little further down from that odd building..? I think....

Just seen this lovely drawing of the Bull Ring by a Thomas Allum.....dated 1845....and I was curious to know if anyone knows anything about the building on the left, before Nelson, with apparently, two figures above the entrance? Is it a pub or what?

Great school.....remember taking my daughter Nicola there almost every day.....had to write and beg Miss Sargeant, the Head, to get her in, as she was on the reserve list after 11 plus...and she obliged....and she did very well, even got a 1st class Honours degree in History at Leeds...

OK? It's absolutely BRILLIANT.....thanks so much....I can now rest easy....

A bit of a conundrum for me…..came across this Warren Blackham painting of the junction of Church Street and Bread Street (now Cornwall Street) featuring THE SWAN Inn….and then noticed what I thought looked like the old Red Lion (now the Old Royal) down the street? Now I have done some old...

Yes Phil....it seemed like it was a movable feast! On the wall off the wall.....thanks for that drawing....

Tom Clements just posted this on another site......artist unknown...but it shows the old Pump in all it's glory....

Barrells Hall is a large house in the Warwickshire countryside near Henley-in-Arden. The nearest village is Ullenhall, which for many years was the estate village, large parts of it having been built by the owners of Barrells Hall, the Newtons, one of the families who formerly owned Barrells. An...

Superb information. Thanks so much.

And, whilst we are hereabouts, this is another neighbouring Manor House.... The Manor of Hampton-in-Arden Before the tenth century homesteads were self governing, but in later years, local communities were being established, and with them, organised meetings or 'Courts' held at 'Moot Mounds'...

A place I happen to notice on an old map I glimpsed when looking at the History of the Moat House in Hampton in Arden….saw the name WALFORD HALL, and I thought that’s my pal from Tasmania, Peter Walford, late of Erdington, Sutton and Yardley..used to lurk on here under the name Thylacine...

What great memories and lovely historic photos....thanks so much for posting....makes doing this worthwhile.....!

Answer to a curious mystery of mine for many years....finally got round to tracking it down ... So, you are driving up the M40….coming back from David Cameron's pad in Witney (yes, tea was nice and the pineapple chunks delicious)) and just before you turn right at the M42 Junction for Brum….on...

CANWELL HALL Canwell lies in the south of the county, about nine miles south of Lichfield, with houses and farms scattered in a haphazard way over rolling hills, fields and woods. The only semblance of a village is where the school, some houses, a farm, and a Social Hall cluster near a...

Indeed…I did manage 55 years as a Chartered Medical Scientist, and retired with an honorary Doctorate, and 35 Peer Reviewed articles in various Medical Journals….and during this long career, learned pretty quickly the wisdom of good research and fact checking before launching into print mode…...