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Just imagine Topsy if the elderly lady and the young thing on the left swapped their attire for each others! They'd be more suited in size if nothing else!

Going back to this Corporation Street image. Thanks to Viv's tip-offs it looks like we have two-or even three-photos in one here. The bus and pedestrians on the crossings. Somehow cut-outs pasted over. Drainpipe looks too new for the building-no attempt at architectural harmony. The A34 sign: if...

Try this one...the dandy-dressed guy in the sunglasses has just exited his flash E-type Jaguar. On a rush for a court appearance for serial offences to do with parking/obstruction? He looks like Frank Gorshin stepped out of an appearance as The Riddler in the Batman TV series to me....

The exact start time (on CH.5) is 3.35 pm

Channel 5 tomorrow is showing the Dambusters film from the 1950's .Around 5pm

Re: THE BULL RING And here is exactly the same view from the tragic war years, dated 6 May 1941. From the Daily Mirror archive, most recent additions on their website https://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=b57609715ad1e1c1076b6358b9c40b99&IMGID=00465673

I'm assuming it was on the corner of Stephenson Street and Lower Temple Street which features as a car showroom on the DJ Norton website. Premises do have a tradition of maintaining their trade through various decades and ownerships.

Moderators might wish to find a more exact thread for this photo but since the Queen's Hotel does appear on this Stephenson Street section here's an opportunity to show the hotel-and Stephenson Street-in its elegance. Dated 1918, and courtesy of the National Railway Museum collection.

Mike (Post 408) Of those years 1950 will be the one. Betty was only 17 at the time and I too was only 16 when the Electoral Law changed in 1970 so I missed voting in the General Election in 1970! I'll try and get back to the article this week or next.

Since this posting recently, I've been doing a lot of page-turning and find that the original publishing of the Betty Burden feature came in the publication 'Picture Post' dated 13 Jan 1951. I've seen the article too by way of access to our Higher Education facilities this end of the Black...

Betty Burden was the subject name for a photo-journalist study of life in five years' after post-War Birmingham by the celebrated photographer Bert Hardy, a selection of his most famous shots form an exhibition on right now in London at The Photographer's Gallery. Here's Betty 'going shopping'...

Assuming I've got the right event concerning the aforesaid butcher pools winner https://www.britishpathe.com/video/joints-on-the-house/query/Birmingham

Regarding the "newer" Corporation-Street-from-Bull-Street, here's the very immediate right-hand side in close up on this occasion. The clue is the Timpson's footwear specialists. Next door to Timpson's is Arcade Chambers, in the 1930 photo still with its classical porch but by 1955 with the...

Bull Street does flatten out the other side of Corporation Street so maybe it just appears to down gradient the further the distance. We are correct in that the slope was 'banked up' in the 1960s to accommodate the underpass at Corporation Street/Bull Street are we? Maybe the hotel advertises...

Courtesy of the Illustrated London News, here's an etching of the same position, dated 1887. Not sure if the artist has been a bit eager to get names in on here but at least its an intriguing topic of conversation

Here's Werff's (two letter f's) and their Windsor Arcade shop. Think photo got evaporated in the photo-hacking a while ago so here it is again

Regarding Viv's photos on post no 98, and the inclusions from the 1950s and 60s previously, I do wish we could go back to those days and keep what was loved and needed before rushing ahead with demolitions regardless. As I'm entering my 60s very shortly I'm reminded of the 'pack-a-mack' days...

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Thanks to our friends at SkyscraperCity, a link to a Flickr profile with several Then and Now photos, specialising in the Town Hall Chamberlain Square area. Here's the hook to just one of the impressions https://www.flickr.com/photos/polyesterpowdercoated/8438860210/in/photostream Is the...

Anything to do with Prestage, the Vauxhall/Bedford van dealer? The covered delivery entrance at the end is typical of motor dealers building designs of the period.