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A "target sheet" used by the Luftwaffe in WW2 .... dated 8 June 1939. It specifically mentions the Lucas factory in Formans Road, and also identifies other targets as Singer on Coventry Road, Lucas on Shaftmoor Lane, and the Rover "shadow factory" on Woodcock Lane North. The attached "bomb map"...

Ref Post #28 .... This clearer copy of the photo shows that it's the junction of Smallbrook Street with Tonk Street (later renamed Hill Street) and Hurst Street. Another wonderful photo from Henry Joseph Whitlock dated 1867 .... full of detail and interest.

A photo of the Woolpack when it was still intact.

Mike: the lamp on the left of Dudley Street in Post #17 is in the correct position for the King's Head, but I agree the name is not legible. Note that the second photo in Post #11 is looking the opposite way down Dudley Street i.e. towards Smallbrook Street. Therefore the King's Head is towards...

Here's another copy of Viv's initial photo for this thread .... showing Dudley Street (ahead) at it's junction with Smallbrook Street (left), dated May 1867. The quality of the photo is stunning, and reveals lots of interesting details. The Apple Tree pub is run by John Harbige. There's a sign...

Another great horse bus photo outside the old Swan PH in Yardley .... showing the replacement pub building under construction in the background.

At the Kings Head on the Hagley Road.

I think the Sparkhill "iron church" cutting above refers to St John's on Stratford Road, Sparkhill. The current church was consecrated in 1889, and Louisa Ann Ryland was a sponsor. Here's a grainy view of the old "tin church" dated 1887-1888.

No, I think it's the usual three .... the second dark head is just visible.

A Birmingham-Shirley horse bus outside the Saracen's Head in Shirley.

A bus posing on Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook .... by the Clifton pub.

Re-posted .... 1. Mary Street, Balsall Heath 2. Dale End 3. Five Ways, Edgbaston

I believe this painting by Edward R Taylor shows the reading room in the first Central Library opened in 1865 .... that was destroyed by fire in 1879.

This painting by Samuel Wright dated 1799 shows the house of Henry Homer that once stood on the Moseley Road in Balsall Heath .... where Lime Grove is now located. The Homer's ran a tannery business in Balsall Heath, and also later in Yardley. Henry died in 1802, and is commemorated in Moseley...

In addition to the front retail area, the DFC also had an "all you can eat" buffet restaurant. I went there a few times in the late 1970s, when that was a real novelty in Brum. The buffet display was spectacular .... I can still picture the whole ox tongue.

Lyn : good photo .... I believe it's a view of The Gullet, near to its junction with Silver Street. Here's another photo of the same location.

I don't think this James Burgoyne photo of Bull Street has appeared on this thread yet. Dated c1875 just before Corporation Street was cut through Bull Street. It shows Number 93 .... with the name Barrow.

A view looking up Newhall Street from Bread Street (later Cornwall Street) to Edmund Street, dated as c1887. Presumably these buildings were demolished in the development that constructed the buildings in Mike's photo.

A great old photo of a steam tram at the terminus outside the Carlton Theatre in Saltley Road.

I believe this is an early photo of the same building, that later became St Anne's School. It's tagged as Duddeston Hall - dated c1867 - by photographer Henry J Whitlock. There have clearly been some modifications in the intervening years, but the basic structure looks the same. One of the...