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https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10322042&itemw=4&itemf=0002&itemstep=1&itemx=12 Curzon Street in its bustling heyday during the 1920's

Stephen. you want to hear this radio programme. Last Sunday even on BBC Radio 4. Noddie Holder does Shakespeare. It's bostin' Comes at the late part of the broadcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qhd0k

I've already gone down this route and think this too. If you notice according to your source of the watercolour his year of birth was 1865-the year of the end of the American Civil War and the consolidation of the number of stars and stripes on the American flag. That's for a while until Alaska...

Magnificent picture of the BBC Broad Street, Dennis. As technically possible where would the location be nowadays? So many details there, but around 10 years before my childhood brain kicked in. The speculative gent in the upper window on the right-a detail worthy of Goya even.

Palmer Street?

Here we go with an alteration to the junction of New Street/High Street: the development of proper tarmac road surface https://postcard-heaven.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=48_6&products_id=40

And here is the said Stork Hotel with Lower Priory on its left, in the the very last months of its survival. Courtesy DJ Norton. https://www.photobydjnorton.com/OldSquare.html

The comparative photo of the west side of the Town Hall in the 1970s and then this past year offers the chance of mentioning you can hardly stand in the same place today and admire the Town Hall architecture. In the earlier days the traffic did a more respectful 5 mph. Nowadays its more like...

New Street with High Street? Did the King Edward School have a porch on originally?

I remember in the 10 years before Snow Hill finally closed in 1972 (the last line open being that to Wolverhampton) and travelling from Wolverhampton myself, that there was indeed a super-size tunnel so well-know it has its own page on Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockley_Tunnels...

Photo of what I deduce is the Sydenham becoming well surrounded by alien concrete on the DJ Norton site-as seen from Dudley Street https://photobydjnorton.com/InnerRingRoadSouth.html

Or could it be a shiny notice indicating parking for TAXIS? It appears to be stuck on a chequered pole identical to the road sign.

No.5 confirmed as High Street/Dale End. Here's the News Theatre (proper name) almost hidden except for the tiling by the bus. Next door (left) is the Ansells pub and next door (right) is Phillips furniture store (we can just see the letter 'S' in the bus photo). *The Jacey in Birmingham was in...

No.2 is Stafford Street. That's the Shere Jahan Indian restaurant half-hidden there.

No.3 looks like Colmore Circus, the bit no-one usually sees since the then Gaumont cinema was the main attraction.

Is it still a Thistle Hotel? Someone seems to be still taking bookings for it now https://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/hotels/351688728 Or is it an offices by now and the internet taking scam bookings? :excitement: Look at that RAC sign nearby! What a memento that is!

In post no.39 photo number 1 is i am sure Bristol Street. Behind the Midland Red Bus is Alfred Allen's furniture showroom with its distinctive pointed gable and circular porthole window now filled in as seen in this more recent shot The road furthest away disappearing to the right is Essex...

The horse is a stalwart Birmingham History forum sleuther, Viv. He's sniffing about round the back of the Colonnade hotel on the Trail of the LONESOME Pina Colonnada....... ...I'll get me coat!

Livery Street looking from one of the goods entrances into Snow Hill station?

Dennis, here's the said emporium entitled 'Light of Asia' dated Feb.1962. Educational link from Getty Images Here's the link in case the picture goes missing https://cache1.asset-cache.net/gp/3364697.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=3&d=zJE7wqxfVISC0RlQxeWy3fYf%2bVK%2bz6KzxX7KWRW0heg%3d