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Very sorry to hear that. A great loss to the Forum. Chris

If you can dig out and post some images of Cropwood from that time, Coriam, they'll be much appreciated. Chris

How did you get on with this, Donna? It would be good to see the button. (If you are still struggling, a possibility would be for you to email the image to me and I'll have a go. Let me know and I'll provide an email address). Chris

Lyn, "George Snook" I think. Mike has shown us in an earlier post in this thread exactly where it was located (and the building survives). That tells me that the background of the image probably wasn't that; and also the strip at the very top of the picture which says something like...

This comes from my collection of early family pictures. Almost certainly taken by my father - which would make it 1919 or 1920 - and surviving as a postage sized negative. I have never been able to identify it positively. Such a shame that the scratched-in caption is incomplete and...

Very useful to have all these in one place, thanks, Pete. Chris

Very sorry indeed. A great loss to the Forum. Chris

Thanks, Two. Could you tell us the source of that information, please? Chris

It looks to me very much like the Medano Hotel in el Medano, Tenerife. Worth googling and comparing the images. Chris

I think my original query which started this thread, so long ago, was inspired by a detailed report on one of the raids on these roads. Because of its Home Guard involvement, I must have later put it online. It's still there...

Great! We have a date - and a very rough indication of where: Home Guard Western Command which means a huge swathe of the country from the north-west down to Gloucestershire and including all of the West Midlands (and Wales). Chris

Strap of the rifle, I think, Mike..... (Great pity that with this picture, as with so many, there is no information recorded about unit or location. The definition isn't good enough to see the battalion insignia at the top of the sleeve. All we can say is that the car appears to have had a...

Thanks for reminding me about that, Glennys Jean. I had almost completely forgotten about it. I don't think I ever pursued the relationships between the Streetly Fodens and the related Cutlers, apart from writing, and putting online, what I knew of the wartime activity of the cousins, Linnaeus...

I've just put online the last of the immediately prewar booklets I currently have, entitled "National Service" (HMSO 1939). Not the N.S. that a few of us remember, but the options open to younger - and perhaps in some cases, not so young - members of a previous generation as they pondered on...

Thanks, johnny. Not specifically Brum of course but I'm sure Birmingham residents would have received copies of these. I've one more to add, from 1938, but if any member of the Forum has any further original ones - and there were a number of similar ones - which they would be willing to scan...

I have recently being putting online some 1938/39 Government leaflets which were issued to households - not least in Birmingham - in order to provide guidance on what to do in the event of war. War Emergency - Information and Instructions (August/September 1939) The Protection of your Home...

A 2020s view. The car would have been parked somewhere around the halt line at the current junction. (Things change a bit over 80 years, don't they - although the old picture is more recognisable to me than the new one!) Chris

Sorry to disappoint you, Bill, but the scene is definitely what is now called Foley Road East. It is just about on the brow of the hill, short of the Church, and outside a building which used to stand there – the Parish Hall. So we are looking down the hill towards the junction with the Chester...

I wonder if there was ever one in Birmingham? They must have had their uses, other than for shipping.

Thank you, Stephen, for an excellent and informative post. Below may be the image which septerverius was telling us about, adjoining the narrow-gauge Ffestiniog Railway line. "Built of local slate and granite, Coed y Bleiddiau hunkers low into the mountain slope with woodland all around it...