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You may have seen this already in the Mail....but in case you haven't.....https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/original-town-hall-birmingham-sketch-8206886

Wow...a tremendous aerial view of the Bullring development.....Market Hall and Worcester Street just about still there, pre Rotunda..beginnings of Smallbrook Queensway...Exchange and Queens Hotel still there....Hipodrome Tower...extensive markets etc....Brilliant find for me...

Loved this old pic of the Navigation Inn in Wharf Road, Kings Norton from 134 years ago (1880)! Just been saved from demolition I gather....https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/historic-birmingham-pub-the-navigation-in-kings-189635

Another nice one I've not seen before...and one I think has been on recently...the junction of Paradise Street with Easy Row....turn on the Century perhaps, from the fashions...? and that little shop to the right of the Pharmacy in the first pic looks fascinating from whatever is above the door??

QUOTE=BernardR;536572]It is not claimed to be the original but the one that was built to replace the original when the Traffic Island was enlarged. It is certainly not an old building rather built in the old style. It's also the other side of the Island Bernard..... [

Sorry mike, you are right of course....I'm sure it's just an alleyway (unnamed) off Suffolk St...just below the Queens College Building...that might be it....there's an 1889 map I think confirms a likely gap off Suffolk St I found, but Old Maps has sort of gone from my Bookmarked page, and I...

Anyone ever heard of Suffolk Terrace? Shoothill special...maybe mike might have a map? there are quite a few of Suffolk Street on there which I find interesting...

Lovely story Lyn...makes these images seem real!

The magnificent Stonebridge Hotel....

Fascinating Mike and Lyn....heres a couple you've probably seen before...The Rose Tavern was where the Police Station is, corner of Allison Street, then there used to be an old pub on the opposite corner to that - The Horse and Jockey....so many pubs down Digbeth/Deritend High Street....some of...

Was at the Festeringdog last month....still going strong....

Wow...even better...this is what Mckenna has to say.... CENTRAL BIRMINGHAM PUBS The Old Guy Inn was situated on the site of the present Midland Red Coach Station. Its original name was the Old Guy of Warwick, taking its name from a semi-mythical character, Guy, Earl of Warwick, who went...

Never heard of it. Sounds cool though...got a piccy Lyn? Anyone?

A reprise of some of that area for interest and maybe clarification....?

Someone posted this cracker yesterday....another of the Bonser Building and the Horse and Groom in Deritend/Digbeth....but what about that Val De Travers sign....as a youth I remember thinking it it sounded quite exotic for a construction outfit....wonder what happened to them...? Never gave...

And another after Jerry had finished with it...love that handcart! Wonder what the owner was doing?

Bath Row...St Thomas Church...clock stopped at the time of German air raid that demolished most of it....so it is rumoured....?

Thanks again mike...at first I thought it might be our old favourite in Anderton's Square...but the door is different...now you've nailed it nicely...

Deritend I think....but can't be sure...any ideas lads and lasses? Found it unmarked in my files.....

Anyone know if this house from the Shoothill collection would be featured...somebody famous lived there ?...No 45 Whittall Street.