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You may have already seen this photo Horatio .... 335 Coventry Road, Small Heath at the corner of Regent Park Road.

Great photos. The Stratford Road location is shown in this photo dated c1908. Would Turner's shop be there at that time ? .... the shop would be behind the lamppost, where the boxes are placed on the shopfront. I remember going in the shop as a lad. We used dried peas to shoot from our toy guns...

I believe this is a photo of the shoe repair shop at 7 Edward Road dated c1902, and a much later photo after it was taken over by Payne's.

Here's an 1867 photo from Henry Joseph Whitlock showing the whole of the building on the corner of Newhall Street and Ann Street/Colmore Row .... that is partially shown on the left edge in Lines' earlier sketch from Viv in Post #171.

Here's another photo of the garage from the thread "Petrol pumps and filling stations of the past". It appears to be later than the first picture .... the Marine Tavern has been taken over by the expanding Motor Works.

The recent episode of BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" featuring Rose Ayling-Ellis contains a section relating to the Aston Tavern .... one of her ancestors is Agnes Chilton who owned the pub in the early 1900s. It shows a couple of great photos taken in the pub garden .... a group shot showing...

I don't think this picture of the Eagle Insurance Building dated as 1932 has appeared on this thread before. It's at 122-124 Colmore Row, and is now the Java Lounge Coffee House.

I think the trolleybus is outside a WITHERS shop, not W H SMITH .... location shown on the right in this 1933 photo of Old Square.

Sorry Mark, I don't have a copy of the magazine. I found the cover photo on the "Old Pics of Brum" FB group .... posted by the great niece of Betty Burden.

The cover of the Picture Post edition that contained the photos.

The quote below is from the Cregoe Street thread Post #40. It appears many of the Betty Burden photos were taken around Cregoe Street. The building on the right in Post #9 above looks like Morton's Chapel .... presumably giving the name Chapel Court. It was in Court 11 Cregoe Street.

The excellent warwickshirerailways site identifies the vehicle as a "Great Western Railway Karrier Cob Mechanical Horse acting as the Chain Horse" i.e. it was used instead of an additional horse when needed to pull heavy loads up inclines.

On the excellent warwickshirerailways site the photo with "Lord Mayor's Fund" sign is dated as 12 February 1940 .... so WW2.

A later view of the same building .... now trading under the name Allen Duncan.

Another photo of Tyseley Wharf dated 1944 (credit IWM).

I think the postcard picture was taken a little further away from the High Street by the mill pond. Here's a current view ....

An update on this very old thread .... I don't know whether it was a restoration or a rebuild, but it looks as though someone did a great job on Canal Cottage.

Four wonderful photos of the interior of Mason College, dated 1897 .... 1. Anatomical Theatre 2. Botanical Laboratory 3. Staircase 4. Natural History Museum

Malc Toy .... Not in the Highgate area : I went to Greet Primary and Moseley Grammar. Here's a 1950s map showing house numbers in "The Sycamores" (street names appear to be very fluid in this area) : assuming the numbering hadn't changed, you can pick out your great grandparents' house. Also an...

Malc Toy & mikejee .... I believe that the Ryland Street that is mentioned in the 1881 Census sheet in #1 was later renamed Stanhope Street in Highgate i.e. it's not the Ryland Street that still exists in Ladywood. Attached is an 1889 map showing "Sycamore Avenue" that was previously called...