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I poped out withe The Pointer first thing to the park opposite Janice's house. I always take a picture at this spot each month.

Hi Richard I use a DJI Mini 3 Pro now. It weight is less than 250g, so the Civil Aviation Authority approve it use on site like this. I am also registered as a drone pilot with them. The drone has a 12 megapixel camera that can give a ground resolution of 1.8 cm per pixel so, it is very...

Mike also discussed agricultural use of the land and how it was once common land. Interestingly farming techniques of cultivating for crops in strips still continued into the early nineteenth century. The images also show a likelihood of WWII allotment use. Janice did a super piece of research...

Mike talked about the boundary adjacent to the cricket club and how it was hedge and a ditch. He also said it have been moved, possibly when the large houses were constructed. Mike also talked about how field marking are more visible at different time of year and lighting conditions. With a...

I think your very much spot on with your summary there Janice, perfect, many thanks. I had already done a drone survey of the field earlier in the year that can highlight detail of the field marking. It was nice of Mike Hodder to give some explanations and also look at some previous suggestions...

I too have similar memories of my mom taking me to Henrys in the late 50’s early 60’s. The café with bullet peas and milkshakes. I also recall a lot of women almost fighting to buy hats in the sales. It was like a free for all. I do recall my mom being quite sad at the announcement it was...

I poped out to have a look at Typoo Basin at the end of the Grand Union Canal yesterday.

I managed to grab a photo of her a couple of months back.

Hi and welcome to Birmingham History Forum. It really boils down to how you and your course supervisor are defining Public History. I see it in a couple of ways. Firstly, it is a term that describes a broad range of disciplines undertaken by people who have an understanding of history but wish...

Thanks, lyn, it does look like there was no standard park bench. There are a couple of phots of the type I can remember with the branches. I am thinking this one my be a Birmingham Bus Corporation Bench.

Interestingly Janice, that’s more like the style of park bench I remember over Witton Lakes Park. They had little stubs cast into the supports to make it look like it was made of branches. I do vaguely recall some bus stops had the type of bench that this was. There was one on the corner of...

I do suspect there is a centre section missing yes. Some nice straight grained oak did cross my mind too. Low maintenance and it would last for years. Do you know of any going?

One of the Birmingham Parks Friends Groups has asked me to restore an old park bench. The story goes, it was destined to be sent for scrap for the WWII effort along with all the iron railing etc. Apparently the park keeper got permission to keep this one and it been tracked down to Somerset...

Which Albert Pardoe are you referring too?

Yes its a stereograph.

Happy birthday Lyn have a super day x

The tar holders must be a bi-product from the gasworks

What a super collection of images, thanks for sharing them. The wooden cooling towers maybe Nechells A power station, they were still there when I was young. Its quite a good way of researching and getting a betting understanding of the past looking for locations of older photographs, I see it...

Well done you.

I think the structure in the background left was one of the two very large gas holders gas holders in Nechells, near to where Cosco and Star City is now. They were pull down quite some time back. The gas holders your showing looking down Whitehouse St are a set of three at Windsor St gasworks...