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Another picture (inter-war years?) of Chetwyn's corner here https://www.flickr.com/photos/thorpehamlet/5567213467/in/photostream Not quite the best angle to get the detail of the Guinness clock, however.

Bobsummers (and everyone), the digital Guinness Clock photo comes from a new, second selection of nostalgia photos on the reconstruction website for the new New Street Station; a previous album was released earlier in the year. The New Street reconstruction people are a bit shy of their links...

Mr. Ball's collection is only equalled by our ability to appreciate it!

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=96443126&postcount=1187

Good Grief, Carolina. This site is amazing!

And here are the Minories in a slightly later year than the black and white capture. Photo taken from the other end, though (Ph. courtesy Mary Evans).

Picture number 3 is definitely Digbeth facing north. The building on the right is the Police Station.

I'm wondering if this reminiscent photo will take members back. The Birmingham Mail only seems to have modern fleet shots. This is from the Daily Mirror archive recording the establishment of Bowens on Cotterill's Lane Alum Rock in the 1970's...

Sistersue, as a road haulage driver throughout the UK from the 1970s to 1990s can i get as near as possible with an explanation? In modern times, the A34 'A' road ran from Southampton, via Stratford and Brimingham to Cannock, Stafford and ultimately Manchester. The A45 ran from Cambridge via...

With a photo which appears to be have been released only a few days ago by GettyImages, I'm posting a view although similar to others previously, shows the old and 'new' Bull Ring' side-by-side in the early 60's. Or rather then new Bull Ring having sliced High Street in half with the Rotunda in...

Indeed, what we see in the Bull Ring photo is the markets between Jamaica Row and Moat Lane (?) https://tuckdb.org/system/images/000/193/849/extra_large/2012_01_15_15_16_57.jpg?1326669542 Here's a more direct low level view of Bull Ring from its Victorian times

We all know of the world-famous STANLEY steel products, namely the Stanley Knife, do we? Any connection there, maybe?

I think the reason for the two ladders is just in case the one broke underneath the workman and he could transfer to the other to get down safely.......

Some details here:-https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/34539

To compliment Phil's picture of police training in Birmingham, and the information provided by the poster immediately before, members might like to know about the documentary archive belonging to the British Council, usually attached to British embassies around the world which promotes education...

The statue of Nelson in Barbados in the Caribbean is around thirty years before the one in Trafalgar Square.

Thanks for that Viv. There are a few other photos of Friends House on RIBA but mostly tiny examinations of brickwork etc. Wish i could have passed on the photos a bit earlier, Viv but time flies and the pictures had only just occurred by chance on that RIBA website I am a Quaker by adoption so...

On the 'birminghamstreets.blogspot' site please refer to the Waterloo Bar page and then again to Christchurch Passage and the addition of "Waterloo Bar that isn't". With the photo below and using Stanford and Mann on the left as a guide, here is what replaced the Waterloo Bar when completed in...

https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15013 Much more detail on the EmpRESS cinema here revealing the cinema was demolished to way way for a then new library building. Not to be confused with the EmpIRE cinema which is the new name for the old Odeon in Sutton Coldfield after its transfer to...