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Ok....there were TWO steel houses depicted in Westley's 1731 map....Kettles in Steelhouse Lane....which I believe is where Steelhouse Lane got it's name.....and another in Coles Hill/The Butts junction...opposite the entrance to the Ditch (which later became the Gullet)...see enclosed from...

Wow..So, the very experts I hoped might still tolerate my lurkfulness on here, never let me down….Thanks mike, Viv, Eric Gibson, Lady P and Radiorails……are you still there too Phil? No matter….so…the options are, if I am correct in my assessment of your suggestions so far…. 1. Redundant...

Yep......why so isolated...for so long.....?

Was trawling through my collection of Birmingham Vistas over the centuries....and noted a building that features in a few of the eighteenth century vistas....and I would love to know more about it, if any genius has any information.....and I feel that this is the place for the answer.....he said...

Thanks Sir! Brilliant....

Cheers Radiorails...Nailed it! Bless..

Sorry. May I butt in and ask for advice?....this is an old pic of the junction of Colmore Row, Steelhouse Lane, and Bull Street...from the cars I would guess 1940s....and the bit I don't get is the pointy spired, round tower building on the right looking down Steelhouse Lane (I think).....never...

For instance.......A. The Reindeer, Edgbaston Street....two pics.....

Here are a few TAVERN oldies from the 1700s , and if you like I can spill what bit is recorded about some of them.....or are they too old to bother? Of course if anyone else has anything, especially any drawings or old prints of any them, it would be interesting....?

Cheers....!!

Can I see your map pretty please? The 1888 one?

With respect, the Solihull Union Hospital is marked on my map of 1889 as being in Lode Lane....nowhere near Wagon Lane playing fields..?

Here's one for you historians....this 1798 map of the surrounds of Yardley and Solihull fascinates and confuses me ....I mean, apart from actually listing the Custard Ho use in Blake lane...a pub fer heaven's sake!....it also marks some other spots that I have never heard of....listed here and...

Yo lyn....still muddling along.....no idea when it disappeared...60s I would guess....don't know where to look for more info......glad to see you are still giving it some welly on here!

Have lived all my seventy five years in Yardley and Stechford....and played footer here in the late 40s and early 50s....King George V Playing fields, Wagon Lane ....but looking at an old map of our area recently...saw this and had no idea that there was once an Isolation Hospital there....and...

The large homes of many of the more affluent villagers were given over to the cause, providing hospital and hostel accommodation for the wounded and their visiting family members. Moor Green House, the horne of Sir John Holder, was turned into a hostel for Belgian refugees and later a hospital...

Love this Road....unearthed this gem from along there, No 48, some time ago....still looks forlorn and abandoned...why??? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722795/Abandoned-Grade-II-listed-home-owned-local-historians-left-decay-owner-went-bankrupt.html 48 Wake Green Rd These eerie...

I am researching this old area round Sheldon, Marston Green, Bickenhill and Hampton....and on this 1889 Map, there are two Halls that I'd never heard of....and nothing much on the internet about them.....might anyone have any info, and especially pictures of Marston Hall, and Hurdle Hall? Many...

You are a scholar and a gent Mike...many thanks....