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There was an entrance to a small hall to Bingley Hall which was on Broad Street which was previously the Prince of Wales Theatre which was bombed during the war. I remember the Dancing Fountains were often displayed in this hall.

I thought it was but I am not sure whether Bingley Hll was this block or the next. When I was at the College of Commerce, which later became the Registry Office, I remember a Car Dealership called Lyles Garage which I think was next to the Colonade.

It looks as if it has lost its roof. I am pretty sure that it did have a roof when it was in Broad Street.

It could be because the Metro has been mainly a hidden asset running in railway cuttings and only seen by the public at each end of its route. Until the Metro got onto the city streets there were even people in Birmingham who did not know that we had had trams since 1999.

I wondered if it was deliberately filmed at a quiet time or on a Sunday as there not many people in Corporation Street. It was filmed before lockdown.

I have already planned a party for my 100th birthday and will invite Andy Street to come along to review how much of that plan has been achieved by 2040.

In answer to questions from MikeGee and Bob Davis. I have not been into Broad Street for nearly two years for obvious reasons. Every time I went into Birmingham city centre, I regarded it as a Magical Mystery Tour as the bus seemed to take a different route each time. The only open stretch of...

https://www.birminghamupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/andy_metro_rail_map-03feb19vf-01-1024x724.jpeg First time I saw this February last year my first thought was 'There must be a Mayoral election comming up' Please, this is not a political comment. Merely an observation.

I am adding this recent video for information as it explains the whole of the plans for the tram extensions. You have to excuse this guy's pronounciations of place names.

Viv, This video will show you the whole route from Wolverhampton to Centenary Square. If, the first time you watch it you can fast forward about 28 minutes to just get the Birmingham part

Yes but this is only temporary 11A will run Acocks Green to Perry Barr and a separate bus will run 11A Erdington to Acocks Green 11C will run Acocks Green to Erdington and a separate bus will run 11C Perry Barr to Acocks Green So you will have to change buses if your journey goes through...

Neither did I, I was just looking for a magazine article I had read which said about them coming to Birmingham

I just Googled Hydrogen buses Birmingham https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/727/hydrogen_buses_coming_to_birmingham_next_spring

JOJ was reserved for Birmingham Corporation buses so they had all 999 of those registrations. The buses were known as 'Birmingham Standards' as the order to re-equip after WWII was too big for one bus builder to handle all at once so the order was spread over several chasis, engine and body...

I once led a guided walk which started from the Hilton Garden Inn in Brindley Place where the party were staying. For a bit of fun, I handed out copies of the OS map from 1902 and told them if they got lost, look for the Islington Tube Works at the centre of the map as that was now the site of...

So that was the Grand Junction Railway station platform. Most photos show the London & Birmingham Railway Station platforms.

I remember a discussion at a local history session when someone insisted that the government did nothing until September 1939. It was quite an argument when it had to be poiunted out to him that airraid shelters were in place and that shaddow factories had been built and in production before...

As I have read it but it was so long ago that I do not know which book it was in. Birmingham took all the fares collected within the Birmingham city boundary and West Bromwich Corporation took all the fares collected outside the city boundary irrespective of which bus they were collected on. The...

Had an interesting scam call this morning. I have identified the area code as Washington State in the US. Spiel went as follows "Hi, we are conducting a survey to day. If you are registered as a Democrat please press 1, If you are registered as a Republican please press 2. If you are registered...

Birmingham Corporation and Midland Red had a no competition agreement dating from 1914 which said that Midland Red had to charge higher fares on journeys inside the city boundary and the Corporation could not operate outside the city boundary. This did not apply on the Dudley Road routes as that...