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Four Oaks Station early 1980s. Then it had extra DMU sidings, a lineside hut and a signal box - all now gone sadly......

Museum shop find - Ian Allan Midland Red ABC guide from 1962 - I liked this as its the same age as me (and in better condition....) - 2/6 in old money, or a quid when I bought it - contains nice Midland Red History, garage list, lots of photos and a lovely route map:- Please let me...

Thank you - how sad the last posted page is though........

Can you post some more pages please - looks fascinating!!!

I am now getting regular pop-up adverts for Hamas......... not good at all....... also now getting button adverts popping up in the middle of some of the threads.

This is St Chads Circus inbound into the city - you can see Constitution Hill to the right in the background.

Latest news from Hockley Station is "not much" - site work seems to have stopped apart from the 3 openings now been firmly boarded up (boo hoo hoo!!) - here is a panorama taken "over the fence" with my phone:-

No - tempted fate - they have reappeared.......

All seems good again now..........

Not my photos but they do show Wastells:-

Yes - lots and lots of them - top, bottom and at the side. Also - if you go to the "privacy and cookie settings" tab and turn them off, it totally ignores what you have entered and just carries on regardless.

This one does not look like a Birmingham tram as it has a destination box on the front which is quite square off upstairs. Could be wrong though?

Bet most of new houses will be retirement homes - that is the only thing built up here in Sutton Coldfield these days. One just opened on the old cinema carpark, and a huge one under construction on Coleshill Rd. One recently finished on the main road between Wylde Green and Sutton. In relation...

As you can see Aston Signalling Centre aka Vauxhall Shunt Frame is now somewhat dwarfed by the new HS2 viaduct piers:-

Tawny Owl update - last night the 2 chicks (without mom unfortunately) arrived whilst it was still light enough to see them, so we managed to get some decent-ish photos:- Then the one chick flew away for a bit:- By now it was dark so we had to use flash again - the chick was...

I reckon this one (Bankdale Rd Alum Rock 1932) is the top deck of a tram:-

Wonderful photo. The thing I like best about looking at historic photos is the people - they can tell you so much about the period and living conditions etc.

Martha Pardoe is mentioned on this one.

Glad I was able to help. There are LOADS of photos to go through - not even done half of them yet I reckon. Some of the captions are a bit vauge but anything is better than nothing I suppose! Enjoy a lot of browsing!

Urban demolition site in 1937 - what would Wythall or Aldridge Bus Museums give to get some of the vehicles here?