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Slightly better view last night -Mercury was just about visible but too dim in the twilight to photograph - but we can see Mars / Jupiter / Venus in a line from top left to bottom right, with Orion in the picture as well:- And now for the out-take - £$%^&* aeroplane got in the shot:-

New thread about things you can see from your garden but are not actually in your garden! Interesting article on the BBC website yesterday about rare alignment of planets visible (weather permitting) over the next few days:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd4z15r54o So last night I went...

The MACE archive is an incredible resource - they have thousands of videos you can view online, including the ATV/Central News archives going back to 1956. Tip - when you search tick the "with video" box as not all items are online yet.

Happier days in these films:- https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-19041957-holiday-crowds https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-15081962-last-steam-engine-birmingham-paddington https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-31071962-children-return-snow-hill-after-holiday

If you have never seen it - ATV Today footage of Snow Hill Station shot in 1968 when reduced to little more than a halt (by 1972 it would becomes the worlds biggest halt):- https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-27081968-snow-hill-station

For example - bottling Brylcreem at the Chemico Factory 1931:-

Try this link - takes you to the Daily Herald photo archive held by the Science Museum Group:- https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/collection/daily-herald-archive?q=birmingham Lots of interesting photos here I have not seen before including:- A set from St Andrews in 1932 which...

I need to spend a day in this neck of the woods with a bag full of cameras and lenses to "revisit my childhood" - or what is left of it!

Took a few twilight photos in Key Hill on Sunday - this is the Gem Buildings where I worked as a teenager dyeing dart flights:- Post Office Building is next door - still with wonderful George V stonework:-

Taken on Sunday in near darkness - side of the building that was on the left hand side of the Duke of York pub, corner of Hockley Hill and Key Hill:-

Brilliant article - thank you for posting it!

At least it is good to see the tunnels I posted so may sad and derelict photos of in other threads now back in busy use:- This the other end of the tunnels at Jewellery Quarter:- Relics here too - painted white wall behind where semaphore signals used to be, so they stood out:-

A few recent shots of Snow Hill Station and sidings taken from Livery St and St Pauls Metro Station:- Looks VERY different now to when I photographed it in the 70's /80's - but at least it is still there. AND - relics may still be there - for example is this a piece of tramway overhead...

Some of the same buses and location - this time from the 1980s:-

Hi Lyn; Yup - all the local buses were there last summer:- And the bus stop signs too!!!

I got the link to work but could not go anywhere else on what looks like a VERY interesting site. Wonder if you have to be a member?

I drove one of my daughters to a Xmas party in the city centre a few weeks ago. After the satnav took us up a dead end (roadworks) by Baskerville House, I told her "I know exactly where we want to go, but have not got the faintest idea of how to get us there"..... If you go that way I recommend...

It was Henrys department store before it WH Smiths had it

Amongst Nigel Hadlow's photos are this set from Penns Station in Walmley taken by the look of it not long after closure in the mid-1960s:- Sadly nothing remains of the station buildings today, but the remains of the platforms are still in situ:-

On the plus side there has been a very sympathetic repair made to the retaining wall above where the station entrance was - they have gone the "extra mile" to match both the bricks and the pattern as well as possible:-