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Thank you, Mike & Lyn. So if we are discussing picture 4, the photographer would have been standing in St Georges Place looking towards St Georges Church as the photo shows the long terrace, or have I misunderstood? What was the relevance of the purple location where Coward & Hunt was? Yes, I...

Birmingham Conservation Trust have issued an opportunity to see behind the scenes at Moseley Rd baths, arguably one of Birmingham's most beautifull buildings.

Yes, Sue, I am pleased too. I see both PDF documents are working now.

Thank you for posting the Shoosmith painting, Viv. I wonder what the exact location is? I do not recognise the double arches.

Thank you, Michael. I missed that explanation.

Yes, Lindy & Lyn Brandt's book gives a great deal of pleasure. I return to it every now & again, which is always a sign of a good book.

A consultation is in in progress concerning the redevelopment of Northfiels Manor House. One of the PDFs is operational & the other is currently not but the website is worth a look. https://www.bannerhomes.co.uk/consultation/northfield

Thank you, Chris & Mike.

Samuel Henry Baker is an artist that is new to me. On the CharterPrints website is a Baker drawing of Barker St, Aston & also a work by Paul Braddon. https://www.charterprints.co.uk/baker-sh-aston-birmingham-p-168.html

Its always a joy to see quality photographs, & Homes Fit For Heroes does indeed provide us with a special window into Birmingham 1939-1943. Bill Brandt's pictures are stunning & many take as their subject families at home in Hockley, Watery Lane & KIngstanding. There are exterior views too & as...

Thank you, Mike. As always its nice to place a location.

I am no expert on A Tarlington, Harborne, but there are some of his prints on this thread: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=39476 Unfortunately the pictures are too small to do them justice, but perhaps more will come to light in due course.

Thank you for posting the picture of Steelhouse Lane, Harborne. The colour pallete suggests the artist might be A Tarlington, but I am entirely happy to be corrected.

So glad that the Turner gave you pleasure, Eric.

So pleased that you enjoyed this, Viv. I think we are so lucky that Turner visited Birmingham. I wondered if the "pond" was the dammed Rea or the water north of Deritend High St as Turner did record views from the east of Birmingham. I would have thought that the Priory fish ponds had...

J M W Turner visited Birmingham in 1794 & 1830, as well as exhibiting a number of his works at the Royal Society of Arts in New St when Aris's Gazette reported "The six drawings of Turner afford an instance of great talent not exactly intelligible to the unpracticed eye". Today I hope that we...

Thats a wonderfull photo of the Market Hall, stitcher. Thank you for posting.

Solihull High St drawn & engraved by T Radcyffe.

Thank you, Mike. Rather earlier, John Freeth wrote a song called The Paviour: A Birmingham Cantata. It seems that although paviours were needed but not necessarily welcomed by all: https://archive.org/stream/politicalsongst01freegoog#page/n172/mode/2up Perhaps the workers did not sing the...

Thank you, Stitcher. I had not realised that wood block paving was used for roads.