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Anyway - now to some photos - firstly from the Carnegie Institute on Hunters Rd / Nursery Rd (Lyn's back yard) - these were from 1941 when it was being used as a war workers nursery:-

I have spent the last few nights browsing through the photo archive on the Imperial War Museum website www.iwm.org.uk/collections. Its only a tiddler (so far over 1 million images online it says......) but even a simple search on "Birmingham" looking only at those records with digitised media...

Don't worry about the accuracy of the captions Steve - I can often not decipher my own captions on my own negatives that I shot meself......

And cats in the garden too:-

One of our chickens in the garden yesterday:-

Three contrasting local views this week:- Firstly from Sutton Park on Monday evening - lovely sunset and crescent moon:- Then a lovely tree in blossom from Newhall Valley Country Park yesterday:-

I also remember seeing a Vulcan (the last one to fly) over Sutton Coldfield some years ago - superb site. Not as loud as when Concorde overflew East Drive at Fort Dunlop back in the 80's though - that WAS loud as it had just took off from Birmingham Airport (I think it could only fly with a...

Brilliant - like going back in a time warp!!

What a thing!!!

Nearly-last quarter moon in the early morning haze today:-

In the early 1980s my old school St Georges Comprehensive performed an old style musical hall night in the upstairs function room at the Bartons Arms (I doubt a school could perform a show in a pub these days but.....). Here are a few photos - I will post some more tonight:-

Hi Lyn - its not in the MACE archive, although I assume you had already checked this.

Hi Richard - very close! Sutton Park station is on the left - the site is is now the Royal Mail sorting office. Sutton Coldfield station is in the middle, and Sutton Town station is on the right. 5 minute walk between each.

A closeup from a different angle of the signal pulley wheel mentioned in post #19 above:- Now I have looked at this wheel on a number of occasions - and until today never noticed that 6 ft to the right of it is another one:- Just goes to show there is always something else to find - and...

This building is remarkable considering it was closed 100 years ago - and still survives reasonably intact in the middle of a very built up area. The user of this ticket would no doubt have exited through this very building after spending their elevenpence:-:- The user of this eight-penny...

Next - Spaghetti Junction of rusting roof support bars:- Roof flashing trying not to go the same way as the roof:- Rotting roof beam complete with rusty nails and many colours of moss and mould:- Very new life on a very old wall:- Another window with branches growing through it:-...

More closeups:- Original window - joint and saw cuts still visible:- A newish rope on the old roof truss and gas pipe - even this is being reclaimed by spiders:- Gas / Electric pipe on one of the roof truss supports:- Rotting roof again - but lovely grain detail on the wood:- Window...

And some more:- Detail of one of the upper windows:- Top of chimney stack - note the different types and colours of bricks:- Rotting and crumbling roof:-

Now for some close ups:- A rope hanging from one of the roof support bars:- A bird nest in the corner of the roof:- Roof beam support:- Nature peeks through a high window:- Original window rope:- Nature creeps over the roof stonework:- Original gutter downpipe:-