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  1. BrummieGeoff

    Camp Hill locks

    Here's another photo taken from the same spot .... tagged March 1964
  2. BrummieGeoff

    Aerial photos of Birmingham

    Viv: here's a photo of The Rectory in St Philip's Place .... tagged with a date of 1887.
  3. BrummieGeoff

    Temperance Hall, Temple Street

    The attached photos (from the excellent Historic England site) are captioned as being from the Music Hall at 8 Temple Street .... so I assume they show the interior of the Temperance Hall. Clearly one is a duplicate of the left-hand photo in Post 26.
  4. BrummieGeoff

    Airships over Birmingham ?

    Another newspaper article relating to the Graf Zeppelin flight over Birmingham in July 1932 .... and the passenger who claims to have requested the flight path over Birmingham.
  5. BrummieGeoff

    Grove Farm Fulford Hall Stratford Road Springfield

    Here's another great picture of Grove Farm that I've never seen before.
  6. BrummieGeoff

    New Street City Centre Birmingham

    Viv The restaurant in Union Street has appeared in a previous post flagged as Kunzle's .... close-up attached is dated as 1953. But it may have been Barrow's previously?
  7. BrummieGeoff

    Old building Query

    The attached 1887 map shows a pub on the corner of Steelhouse Lane and Lancaster Street .... the site of the Castle PH in the previous map. However, I initially thought that the lamp attached to the building in the foreground of the Steelhouse Lane photo was the type often seen on pubs of that...
  8. BrummieGeoff

    Old building Query

    I think the Steelhouse Lane photo shows a pub in the foreground .... on the corner of Lancaster Street. Does anyone know the name of that pub ?
  9. BrummieGeoff

    Old building Query

    As MWS suggests, the building was probably demolished as part of the Corporation Street development .... I believe the photo I posted was taken by James Burgoyne as part of a series to record views that would be lost when Corporation Street was cut through town.
  10. BrummieGeoff

    Old building Query

    The attached photo containing the same building is tagged as Steelhouse Lane .... supporting the location as being the pink dot on the above map.
  11. BrummieGeoff

    Bull Street

    Interesting cutting Viv. Here are photos of the Berrill and Wilson shops mentioned ....
  12. BrummieGeoff

    Hen and Chickens Hotel New Street

    Dennis : I think the "hotel" building you're referring to is in fact the New Street branch of the Joint Stock Bank .... picture attached.
  13. BrummieGeoff

    Sarehole Mill

    Viv .... love the photo. I believe that building is Brook Farm (on the old Brook Lane before it was re-directed), and not Sarehole Mill that was further downstream.
  14. BrummieGeoff

    Birmingham Fire Brigade Stations - (1911-1916) Locations/Personnel Numbers/Appliances.

    It appears that a Fire Station could be based in standard residential housing stock. Here's a photo of the Ravenhurst Street, Camp Hill Fire Station dated 1910. Credit WMFS Heritage Group.
  15. BrummieGeoff

    Greet Primary School

    Yes Eustace .... and Astro's brother is shown in the 1967 cricket team in Post #5 Photo #2 above.
  16. BrummieGeoff

    Yardley Wood

    castalla : no, sorry she didn't recall the family at 18 Pendeen.
  17. BrummieGeoff

    Yardley Wood

    jmadone : That sounds like my wife's Uncle Harry .... is your cousin's name Margaret ? If so, we know her well, and we'll be seeing her on Saturday.
  18. BrummieGeoff

    Yardley Wood

    Hi IvorP .... my mother-in-law (nee Shufflebottom) lived at 36 Pendeen, but moved out in 1949 to Prince of Wales Lane. She remembers your mother Hilda, brother Ronnie and sister Rita. She remembers your dad at the VE (or VJ) Day celebrations dressed as an Arab!
  19. BrummieGeoff

    Midland “Red” Worcester Street

    Here's a wider view of the same location dated c1946.
  20. BrummieGeoff

    Fireman in Balsall Heath early 1900s

    Here's a view of the old Highgate fire station dated c1910.
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