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This was the normal layout for double deck trams but only the rear staircase was in use. The front staircase would have lead to an exit on the offside of the tram. Single ended trams require a turning circle at the terminus and at any short working turning points.

I remember the Sons of Rest using Lightwoods House in the room to the right of the front door as you look at this view. The room to the left was the café. Later they had a separate hut off the photo and nearer to the Adkins Lane side of the park but that got burned down. I think Birmingham was...

Yes, I remember this scene from my childhood as well. This would be about 1955 when that hut on the left was built for the park keeper collecting money and hiring out equipment for the bowling greens, tennis courts and putting green.

This photo shows how many canal basins, arms etc there were in the area now covered by Centenary Square, Baskerville House, ICC and the Library

Does anyone have a date for the closing of the hotel at Snow Hill? I have known Snow Hill Station from the late 1950s but, unlike the Queen's Hotel at New Street, I don't even remember a hotel entrance.

I can remember having to get home in the fog one day. A Midland Red single decker appeared in Paradise Street. I did not know where it was going but as long as it was going along the Hagley Road I was happy to get on it. Coming out of Broad Street at Five Ways the driver just had to guess the...

Queens Hospital was the old Accident Hospital on Bath Row. That name was over the door but I think it was partly obscured and no longer used.

Photographed in Liverpool last year. Possibly one of the last steam buses to operate in service. This bus, a Thornicroft, ran an experimental service between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus in 1902.

As I understand it Winson Green was a grassy area of Birmingham Heath. Over the years Birmingham Council built many institutional buildings there. Prison, Workhouse (which became the hospital), a mental hospital, a smallpox isolation hospital.

The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen Germany. I took this photo in 2018 looking across the airport.

I think that is near Barnsley Road not St Augustus Road.

This could have been when Early Closing Day was abolished. Shop staff were entitled to a half day off each week to be determined by the local council. In Birmingham this was Wednesday afternoons. When this was abolished shops had to set up new rotas for staff with time off. (Side note. Sheffield...

Paul, I am not sure where you live these days but I believe you have moved abroad. Because of running out of numbers all geographical dialling codes were changed on 16th April 1995, so Birmingham became 0121 replacing 021

A year since the last post but Happy New Year. Through my letter box today, I received a leaflet from a local fast food shop. It had a phone number 0121 824 XXXX and is based in Halesowen. I have never seen a Birmingham exchange code in the 800s before and a search of the codes for each of the...

1000 Trades (a Jewellery Quarter pub) have now opened a bar selling food and drinks in the former refreshment rooms of Lightwoods House. For info https://1000tradesonthepark.org.uk/

I don't have date for the founding of Lewis's Bank but many stores had their own banks. In 1958 Lewis's Bank was bought by Martin's Bank but continued operating under their Lewis's name. In 1967 Martin's Bank merged with Barclays Bank but one of the government conditions for approval of the...

That building would have been between Francis Road and Five Ways. I think I remember it. It would have been demolished with the massive works carried out at Five Ways in the late 1960s onwards.

No that is the church over the canal. At the moment I cannot remember its name. St Peter's was to the left and behind the photographer. EDIT The Church of the Messiah. a Unitarian church well supported by many Birmingham business leaders in the past like the Nettlefolds and the Chamberlains

The original entrance to the London and Birmingham Curzon Street station was to the left of the still standing building which was a hotel in the early days. The entrance to the Grand Junction station was along Curzon Street. As Heartland says above it is not generally realised that there were...

The Calthorpe family name in full is Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. The present head of the family is Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe Bt.