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I agree Lyn, it is a quality building and part of our industrial and military past. Derek

Hi Lyn, Gatehouses built for Kynochs/IMI - the works hospital was inside the site and a small building compared to the entire works. They had a fire brigade as well. Here's the listing description linked to by Brummielad above: "The Gatehouse Buildings at the former IMI works, of 1915 by...

Kynoch's works which became IMI has been demolished and Eden Boy's School occupies part of the site since about 2016. The gatehouses were listed and have been preserved. When I started work at Birmingham Poly staff and students could use the medical facilities at IMI as they had nurses and a...

Thanks, just to clarify I meant the tracks near the old Docker's Paints site.

Do you know if they can still be seen? Or have they been removed or covered over? I know Icknield Port Loop is a big development. I've not ventured to that part of the canal for many years. I have seen Osler street about 7 years ago and the reservoir. I've read the thread on canalworld.

Brinson, C. (2023). The ‘Homecoming’ of the Activists: How the Communist Refugees Returned from British Exile. Oxford German Studies, 52(3), 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2225286...

Thanks Peter. I can appreciate that you might not wish to disclose names if you are intending to publish. You know that there are registers of aliens in wartime Britain? Some took British citizenship, others might have avoided being sent to Czechoslovakia after the war. This might help...

Welcome to BHF Peter! Can you tell us their name? I don't know if you are aware of the conference last year? https://www.architecture.com/whats-on/displaced-lives-architects-seeking-refuge-on-the-brink-of-the-second-world-war-hybrid-conference Press cuttings for Radiation Ltd are available...

From Daily Express 21 April 1941 among a list of RAAF slang terms. Defined, but nothing about origins.

Jonathan Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests: go for a Burton (v.) [the precise ety. remains unknown but there are a number of suggestions. First is the elision of SE burnt ’un, i.e. a burning aircraft (and its pilot). Partridge (DSUE, 1970), and Paul Beale (DSUE, 1984) suggest: (i) a euph...

Betty Burden was photographed by a famous photographer, Bert Hardy. But the 'brief encounter' photo posted by Mark is by Haywood Magee another Picture Post photographer who isn't known much today. I had to look him up. Great photos in Black and White on this thread...

Me too, remembered from Uplands Secondary Boys late 1960s. I guess it was someone's father's or grandfather's party piece.

Pete, have a great Birthday! Derek

The Iron Room - the blog of Archives and Collections chose James Henry Cook as its subject in 2016. https://theironroom.wordpress.com/tag/james-henry-cook/ but nothing further was found searching then.

And welcome to BHF! If you've not used Birmingham Library Archives before then you will need an archives card and an appointment. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50134/archives_and_collections/1552/archives_and_collections I took a quick look at the archive online catalogue and found...

Some pictures of this beautiful building on Historic England site. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075604?section=comments-and-photos Set to be converted to a hotel in 2025. Grade 2 listed.

Quite right Boilerman. Mom, the daughter of a trained gardener always made me stand on a sheet of three ply so as not to damage the structure of the soil. Derek

Looking about on line I found this photo of Salvage Turn in 1912 (if the date is accurate). No tramlines to be seen. So they are not historically accurate, but a modern construction of 'heritage' as they give an impression of what a wharf might have been like. Without any trucks, workers...

Welcome to BHF Chris! I think that the narrow gauge tramway laid here is a modern reconstruction using materials from elsewhere? (Unless anyone has a photo to the contrary.) The tramway would be used for carts pulled by men or horses to load or unload material from the wharf. There is a...