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I guess not, but dogs are welcome apparently.

The Prince of Wales in Cambridge street is open. Beer and cobs, pork pie etc. Run by Black Country Ales these days. https://www.blackcountryales.co.uk/pubs/the-prince-of-wales

Video above dates from 2021. There is now the massive HS2 construction and partly built Curzon Street station here. I wonder if this area will be cleaned up? There’s still plenty of Victorian and Edwardian factories to see, but I think there will be development if/when HS2 is operational.

Richard, the courts or courtyards were sometimes given names or sometimes numbers. Both appear on maps and in addresses, like the census. The courts ceased to be part of the official address sometime in the early 20C. I'm not sure when though. There is a thread on the numbering of houses with...

Keith, the letters on your stone appear to be made of lead. They will have short pegs on the back which fit into drilled holes. I think plain water and a soft brush is the safest. Perhaps press any lifted edges carefully back? I wouldn't attempt to clean the background as the lichen frames the...

Welcome to the forum, Toothypegs! Generally houses were renumbered when the courts ceased to be referred to. But I think that the names and personal stories in 'Back to Backs' have been selected and arranged to form a representative narrative. They cover a wide time period and it would be...

Alice Beale née Kenrick was also presented with a steel key to University House on her 80th birthday in 1926. "Mrs. Beale was President and Chairman of the University House Committee whilst her Husband, Charles Gabriel Beale, was the University’s first Vice-Chancellor and Mayor of Birmingham...

University House was built as a women's hall of residence in 1908. But the gates were constructed in 1926, 'presented to Alice Beale in recognition of her service to University House' (Alice Beale had chaired the executive committee of 1902 in which the idea of having a women's hall was first...

I remember Hardman's stained glass being at Lightwoods House in Bearwood. They made stained glass up to 2008, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardman_%26_Co.

You could try to contact Ben Waddington, he wrote about Birmingham's Hidden Spaces.https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/hidden-spaces-subterranean-birmingham-exploring-9345738. He wrote a guidebook 111 Places in Birmingham that You Shouldn't Miss. I don't know of any tunnels in St Pauls...

The Ogham Stone is exhibited in the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry. Visitors can see it on display in ‘Collecting Coventry’ until 27 April 2025. I’ll be sure to make the trip.

Broadcast today. Good to hear a Brummie voice on Radio 4. An eclectic choice of music: Dylan, Ella and his favourite Harry Lauder. The hymn Immortal Invisible took me back to school assembly. I'm not a fan of Peaky Blinders to be honest, but this programme is about Stephen Knight. Never knew he...

Spillage was at Pleck: 'Walsall council said people must avoid an extended area of the canal and towpaths from the Walsall lock flight to the lock flights at Rushall, Ryders Green and Perry Barr.'

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good day. Derek

The custody record I posted is in the Prisoners of War collection from National Archives available in Find my Past. This Jean Antoine was 2nd Capitaine of the lugger, so an officer, but not the commander of the privateer. The marriage between John and Mary is by licence. He signs the register...

The Bacchus Bar is very much a going concern, but perhaps because of its location can be easy to miss. I was taken there by a work colleague about five years ago otherwise I wouldn't have been aware of it.https://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/eastandwestmidlands/bacchusbarbirmingham#/

Good question. A family member, but there is a supporting document which is the page from the Portsmouth custody book. JA is the last entry on the page. I hope it can be read. There is a record of a Jean Antoine being held as a prisoner of war in Portsmouth. He was captured in 1797 whilst on...

Thank you Janice. I appreciate your comment, I'd thought to discount it, but I have little experience of genealogy having taken it up in the last two years. It is so easy to jump to assumptions. Derek

Thank you Janice. My JA married Mary Dennick in Evesham in 1808. Derek