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University Station has just been rebuilt so I have not seen it yet which has a new bridge across the canal into the University. I was there briefly a few weeks ago but I had a tight change of trains so went across the old footbridge not really seeing anything.

That cannot have been by chance! Have just checked St Germain's Church next door has a B17 post code although its address is City Road.

The steep bank was presumably in Warley Woods. I used to live near Warley Woods by the Water Tower and used to walk the 2 miles to school every morning across the Woods, down St Mary's Road along Sandon Road and down City Road. In the afternoons I used to walk to Bearwood and get the bus back up...

I have read in one of my books that there was a tram siding into the Midland Red bus garage at Bearwood for the purposes of handling parcels being carried on the Tramway Parcels Express service. I don't remember which book I read that so I cannot look it up.

I went back to the school in (I think) 2004 when they were commemorating 100 years in City Road and the Assistant Head who was in charge of the event (I don't remember his name) was wearing an Old Dixonian tie.

Tom Long was very anti Franco when we managed to get him to talk about it in class. which was very easy to get him side tracked. Harold Bond who in my day was in charge of stationery handing out new exercise books from his cupboard off the ante-hall was an old Dixonian but I did not know that...

I thought it would have been the trip to Harborne in 1963. This trip also took in Halesowen. A poor quality cine film is available on YouTube A better quality film of the 1959 tour is

This model was known as the D5. A later version known as the D5B was the first Midland Red buses to have doors on the rear platform. See correction from Radiorails below. These buses were class AD2 which had bodies designed by Midland Red and therefore were similar to the bodies of the D5. My...

An interesting advert from 1944, currently on sale on ebay

I think the Rag Week as a parade of floats finished in the early 1970s.

Missed all that. I was at a meeting in the Council House on Friday and they had almost finished removing it. I had gone past on the tram the week before thinking I must come back.

I remember Bush House as a child as just the steel framework and my mother telling me that it had begun before the war. As far as I am aware the later Bush House was built in 1950s using the same framework but with a rounded corner on the junction of Cumberland Street and Broad Street rather...

The Avery sports grounds had been earmarked for housing as long as I can remember. The first edition of the Birmingham A-Z showed dotted lines for roads and I think I had seen that on earlier maps. Gaps for these roads were left in the City Road houses.

You probably remember these Coventry Corporation buses.

I think the ground floor space is used for storage. the upper floors were of course part of the 1960s Bull Ring and I thin the former Debenhams store is above it.

Last week I had occasion to change from the Metro to the railway so I thought I could go to St Chads stop on the Metro and use the new entrance to the station. When I got out of the lift at street level I looked for the new entrance and it was not there. I had to walk round under the viaduct in...

This accident is not recorded in the Railway Archive. An accident is recorded on 3rd February 1878 on the Snow Hill Incline in London between a Metropolitan Railway train and a Midland Railway train with a rear collision and derailment with 2 injuries and no fatalities. The Snow Hill Tunnel in...

As one of the oldest companies in Birmingham, I think you can assume that they made nearly every that they could in metal over the years.

Yes English bus passes are available for use on cross border journeys into Wales but I have heard some reports that they are not working in reverse.

Actually many longer distance routes are being split. I have read reports of former routes being split but still being operated by the same vehicle and driver. I was told by someone living in Merseyside that he used to get a bus from Chester to Barmouth on his bus pass but now the route is split...