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The bombsite of neighbouring houses can be seen in the background of the top one. Apparantly, the kids would go and play amongst it.

Here are some family pics of mine, my family lived 14 back of 94 (back of 88 after bombing in war) Coplow Street in Ladywood, what a nice place to put them. The middle one is for the Coronation, and in the bottom one my nan and grandad are the ones with their arms round each other. Alot of court...

It is really nice to see some of the original photo's being re-added, it makes it all make much more sense as this forum is very much image orientated. Cheers.

I would also like to point out an article by Chris Upton who has written about the Court of Requests as well. I looked at it in my research and it has some details that aren't included in my article; the reference follows. Chris Upton, 'Heavy Punishments 200 Years Ago', Birmingham Post, 14...

Hi Dennis, What an amazing image! The Old Grey House is one of the wings/side buildings of the dispensary on Union Street, designed by William Hollins built from about 1806 I think (I'll check). You can see one of the pilasters (flat columns) of the main part of the dispensary on the left. Even...

I know this thread was being discussed a while ago, but I was just researching the image you're discussing and William Barrs and son moved to 47 Princip Street in about 1879 and is listed from then to at least 1882 at that address. Considering the image is 1880, if the image is Barrs 'Ship...

How nice to have such a lovely collection, you should start a thread just for the clippings, it would be nice to see the selection.

Yep, that's where it was...I am strangely fascinated with old maps.

Hi, The original Pantechnetheca was knocked down in 1857 and replaced by a much larger parade of shops commissioned by Samuel Hyam; there's a little bit about the original building here... https://mappingbirmingham.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pantechnetheca-new-street.html . It was Samuel Hyam's...

I think this photo was taken either just before or just after an event (though I can't remember what it was, I'll have to look), so the barriers were to keep the crowds off the street. There are photo's of the 'event' in full swing, and the pavements are pretty full.

oh yes, I've got my bearings now, I'd forgotten I had this picture...

My mum and Step-dad said that there was a cinema in the building to the right, my mum went on her first date there and I think my s-d went to see Star Wars there.

One of the rotunda being built, I don't know what the building in the background is...

I was just looking at some of these old photographs, I was wondering when the building at the front of this photograph had been knocked down. The building had streched all along the strip with the wooden fence and had been called the Post Office Building because that was where the old Georgian...

Also, at that time most families lived in the commercial premises. When looking at directories you occasionally see 'John Smith, Merchant 11 Smith Street, house John Street', showing that they live away from their shop. It is more likely though that your ancestor lived in the same premises as...

It is a sewer pipe as it is the Board of Health map.

Hi, There is an old photo (1952) of Navigation Street here, by D J Norton; https://www.photobydjnorton.com/CityCentre.html There is also a painting that was on the wall of Birmingham Archive, though I'm sure it is moving with everything else. The map below is from the early 1850s, showing...

Sorry, they've come up a bit big, but this is what the site looks like now.

Reply to; "do not know if you have a copy of Personal Recolection of Birmingham and Birmingham Men, by E Edwards, printed in 1877 Bt Midland Educational Trading Co Ltd inside there is a Drawing of Bull St in 1840 it is in the same type of drawing to yours, it shows boths sides of Bull St the...

Hi Vivienne, I should note, I have a near complete illustration for the north side (only the shop fronts for 13 & 14 are missing (due to a carriage in the way), and the roof of 22 (because it had been knocked down), but the south side is very sporadic. No-one seems to have taken photo's of the...