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"This place is really wonderfull; it strikes one with enchantment" wrote Richard Joseph Sullivan in 1780. "A few years ago it was but an inconsidrrable dirty village and now ....it is one of the largest & most populous towns in the kingdom........The houses are well built; the streets broad &...

Thank you all for your input. I find your argument & supporting picture particularly compelling, John and its always a joy to see an A E Everitt picture of course. What an interesting silouette Aston Hall has.

"Very extensive & a great part of it elegantly built" is the description given to Birmingham by William Thomson in his book A Tour of England & Scotland in 1785. More postive than Robert Southey he records that Birmingham was crowded, something overlooked by every writer I have come across so...

Writing of Birmingham, Robert Southey opens with "The devil has certainly fixed on this spot for his hothouse". Its always interesting to have different perspectives of Birmingham and Southey certainly provides unique insights. In his book Letters from England vol 2 published in 1814 he arrives...

Thank you for sharing, Topsy Turvy & Phil.

Yes, I agree, Cookie. Mackenzie certainly missed out a lot of chimneys & thats a shame for they were part of Birmingham's distictive skyline. Thank you for your input, Shortie.

Mackenzie's 1890 "romantic" painting of Birmingham is as interesting for its omissions as well as the perspective. Has anyone got any idea where the painter would have stood to get this view? (Replacement. I think it is the one. It certainly fits the descriptions )

Cold Mountain well reviewed on Amazon, too. Eddy. New copies for 1p + £2.80 postage are available on that site. The dvd gets lots of stars from reviewers as well. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Mountain-Sceptre-Charles-Frazier/dp/0340936320/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316599579&sr=8-3

Midland Hotel early 20C.

Well found, Brian.

Thank you very much, Phil. Templefield St has been straightened out now.

Ant pics of Cattell that I have Lyn are posted on this thread: https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27236&highlight=bordesley

Phil photos of that particulalr Marquis of Lorne would help show the character of the area at least, so would be much appreciated.

Thank you, Lyn. It would mean so much to get a picture of 136 Cattell Rd.

Thank you, Sister Sue. I would greatly appreciate that & would love to hear anything else he can remember about the place.

So far the only painting of Birmingham I can find by Waler Langley is set in the Market Hall. https://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1952P36

What a shame all the pictures did not come across during the forum migration.

Thanks anyway, Lyn. Here it is: https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27411&page=2

We had a thread which dealt with Corbetts Temerance Hotel, John. It had some excellent photos of the hotel. I cannot find the thread - can anyone else locate it?

Thank you, Fatfingers. Now I look at the map I see that its the houses across the road that are set back. My grandparents ran the fish shop back in the 1920s. Would it have been 2 or 3 storey building? Was it a purpose built shop or a house made over to a shop do you think? I used to pass the...