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Is it the Bristol Road Phil?

Very clever - I expect everyone thought it would end in failure which is why it drew a huge daily crowd. It reminds me of a time my sister needed to get an ariel cable from the back of her house to the front without going on the roof - after giving it some thought she fastened the end to a...

Another interesting site about Northfield. It explains how the centre of the village moved to where the two new turnpike roads crossed and the Bell coaching inn was built along with a blacksmiths, a corn chandlers, shops, houses, a workhouse and a village gaol...

On a site about workhouses I found this about Northfied. Northfield had a small workhouse from around 1801. The institution had a garden where potatoes and cabbages were grown. The inmates were employed in making nails. I also found this site (No longer available) - it says the workhouse and...

Lyn, I think it is probably going to the best place - I was worried that if it went on a building the same thing might happen again in years to come. Well done - you have worked hard and achieved a great result!

Thanks Mike - I must have crossed that road a thousand times and never realised that it was called Church Road where it meets the Bristol Road. Where you have marked Ash Bank Farm makes perfect sense as that is where Ash Grove retirement flats are now. I agree about the shops too - one of my...

Dave, I am a little confused the Church Road Northfield that I can find joins the Bunbury Road - I think we need someone with an old map and much better map reading skills than me.....Mike??????

This should help - an article by Chris Upton in the Birmingham Post https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/chris-upton-trail-workhouses-3948473 Mrs Turner’s map places the workhouse, along with the parish gaol and the parish constable’s house, on the Bristol Road, between the Bell...

On an NHS site the history of Selly Oak Hospital it says that Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Norton, NORTHFIELD and Beoley all had their own individual workhouses until 1872 when they were replaced by a much larger one at Selly Oak.

Well done carolina. I didn't know that area was known for nail making. Has anyone got a recent picture of it?

The Dog - Hagley Road West?

is it in Northfield phil?

I wonder how close? My next guess may be too close but I will try it anyway - Monument Lane, Ladywood.

I will just have a guess too - Spring Hill, Ladywood.

That was great fun Phil, thank you. Can't believe I got another one right - after never getting any I get two right in the same week! If that is the plaque they refer to on their site I think they need a history lesson - Queen Victoria was Queen Elizabeth's Great, great Grandmother.

Right then Phil - now we know it moved so that's a big clue - but where to? I can find The Old Royal which is a pub in Church Street but I don't know if that has always just been a pub or even how old it really is - it also has a plaque but it seems to be the wrong royal on it. Am I miles away Phil?

So did the 'hotel' relocate elsewhere and the plaque went there or was part of the building preserved and became something else/incorporated into another 'new' building and the plaque put in the 'new' building.

i think the answer lies with what happened to the hotel in 1959 - when the new store was being built - does anyone know what happened to it?

In 1955 Harrods took over Rackhams and in 1959 House of Fraser took over Harrods but it wasn't opened till 1960.

That's such a lovely father to daughter letter. It must have been so horrible to be away from your children knowing you may not return home. How sad that Albert died of Spanish Flu - I didn't know people could die that quickly from it either. Thank you for posting the letter Lyn and thank you to...