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An early photo of Corporation Street showing the old Midland Educational store on the left.

A very very late reply to Post #1 in this thread .... This aerial photo of Greet from September 1928 shows the Birmingham MCC track (on the right). Credit: britainfromabove.org.uk

A photo of the building with firemen still in action .... October 1940.

A good 1855 map to give context for the previous photos of The Gullet. Credit: Birmingham Archive.

The Milward building - that Dennis posted to start this thread - is shown on the right hand side of this painting by Warren Blackham. It also shows the Lichfield Street end of the Gullet .... next to Thos Hopkins' Tea Shop.

A James Burgoyne photo of the Union Hotel yard.

Another couple of James Burgoyne photos that haven't appeared on this thread yet .... showing Balloon Street before it was cleared. The attached "Birmingham Improvement Scheme" map (dated March 1879) indicates the proposed route of Corporation Street, and where Balloon Street was located.

Here's an old interior photo of the Plough at Monkspath.

A clearer version of a previously posted 1885 photo of the old General Hospital in Summer Lane. The poster in the bottom right of the photo is advertising the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival that was held at the Town Hall (during that period) to raise funds for the General Hospital. The...

A George Warren Blackham painting of the Shakespear Tavern. It bears the name Mark Yates, so I assume it's the one in Lower Temple Street .... even though it doesn't look identical to the earlier photo, but I guess that's artistic licence.

Yes Lyn .... I didn't have access to the electoral register, but I worked out the house location from that photo on Post #9, and the position of the entry in the first photo on Post #2.

Thanks for your post Gareth .... it's a very interesting story. Sorry to hear that your mom has now passed away. I'm sure many of us would like to see the full story if you're able to scan the Picture Post .... the photos are really evocative.

The building with the rounded tower has previously been identified as Redhill School.

Sparkhill Park in 1959 .... showing the paddling pool and the Sons of Rest building.

SteveBhx: Many thanks for the old photos of the Bear pub (opened c1937), and previous occupants, on the corner of Stratford Road and Thornhill Road in Sparkhill .... I hadn't seen them before. I was born and brought up in Thornhill Road, and the spot outside those corner pub doors was our...

A 1922 photo of the same Easy Row/Broad Street location .... before construction of the Hall of Memory.

There are several references to the Beverley Hotel in the Stratford Road thread.

The Moseley steam tram is on the Alcester Road, at the junction with Moor Green Lane.

The NLS Maps site contains this interesting - and alarming - map of Birmingham showing the locations of "fatal street accidents due to vehicular traffic for the year ended 31st December 1935. Total 148". The highlighted area of South Birmingham emphasises the density of fatalities. My...

MrSloyan .... here's a 1954 map, and a c1959 photo showing 24 Bath Row.