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No Phil ..it was just opposite the Toll opposite.....but sadly no picture...but you can see the gates........which in your second pic does have a resemblance to Toll House octagonometry...if that's a word...? Great pics btw.....cheers.....

I may know you....but without a name? Hope you are my hero fives player Jim Tunnely....but I think he was above as both.....

Yeah...nice one Phil...here's another view.......

That photo of our Cricket XI 1957/8 ....l/r back row...Brian Nightingale, moi Willyums, Tony Crump (not Keith Nock), Geoff Jackson, Sam Dodd, and a kid whose name I cant quite remember but became Head of Sport at Birmingham Uni. Seated l/r Mann, Smith, Bramley ( whom I also played with at...

Anyone know owt about this one? Is it still there in any form?

Yes Phil...but I suppose on a personal note, my interest was kindled by a snippet from a spiral bound book I got from my Nan.....after I begged her to write down her reminiscences of her long life.... This is the except, and she mentioned that going into town on the horse bus they had to pay a...

Thanks folks...Most informative and helpful....so. here's a few more you may have noted......discuss away!

I was incarcerated from 1953-1960.....witnessing the move from Gothic splendour to Ersatz little boxes.....some pics the CH old sherrins and prefects may remember......here's an extract from my memories... That first day was a blur. I knew no one else at the school, living or dead, in this...

Great info..cheers Pedro....!

No.....a Yardley and Stechford yob.....

Begging the Courts pardon, but may I start a new Thread about a long held fascination of mine, the old TOLL HOUSES of Brum and it’s neighbours? I have been researching this for some time, and there are quite a few bits and bobs about Tolls on here already, from a few years ago….notably by the...

I know we have done CLEVE TERRACE on here before, over on the Passages and Alleyways thread.....but this first shot of a school on there amazed me when it cropped up a year ago..........never seen nor suspected it's existence....lurking in Cleve Terrace all those years ago...King Edwards Girl...

Maybe the source was incorrect, I honestly cannot remember something I’ve had on record for many years, sounded a bit like them, but the text was genuine....shall I delete it?

Always been fascinated by this thoroughfare....especially the Pubs and Hotels......and also the Aquarium highlighted in mikejee's map from way back....so here's some more pics to add to the collection, and I love Joe Mckenna's take on it's history, and notably again...for it's role in the...

Would these help?

Great stuff.....here's a little reminder of it's long history....probably by Carl Chinn...cant remember..... Pinfold Street In the Middle Ages and afterwards each settlement had a pound in which stray animals were kept until they were redeemed by their owners who had to pay a fine. Such a pound...

Just a few more to complete the set! You may like to ponder the premise which led to it's demolition and all the other massive changes to that part of the City....this is from an article from the Faces and Places Magazine of 1896 " BIRMINGHAM IMPROVEMENTS UNDER THE ARTISANS' AND LABOURERS'...

THE MEDIEVAL SCHOOL Apart from the church, the Old School is Yardley's only other major visible survival from the medieval period. On architectural grounds it is generally considered to date from the latter part of the fifteenth century. However, in 1512 Robert Swifte bequeathed xiid 'toward...

Long shot I know...but mike's comment about scale and old maps may be right...they cannot be relied on to be accurate.....and I still think it's something to do with hanging skins or stuff for tanning or drying......way back in Hill's 1553 map, about where the yards are later...I think it may...

And another thing...whilst we are on Westley's 1731 Map....what does the team think the blue marked semaphore-like poles are in Digbeth in these illustrations....? Tannery Poles for drying leather?...trees......? I've no idea....and it probably isn't that important.....but.....I'm...