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I am following this with great interest, MH. Thank you for taking the trouble to share these pictures. You might be interested in the listing:

Thank you for the update, Macca.

Thank you so much for treating us to those photos, M-F. I'll look forward to the next instalment. I do think that clock mechanisms can be very attractive in their own right, but goodness knows what state that one is in!

Hawthorne House was built in the early 1800s but changed & extended. The staircase & a stained glass window is Victorian. It will be interesting to see what happens to this building.

Thank you for finding the photos, Viv. How beautifull yet homely Winterbourne is.

Opportunities to visit an arts & craft house in Birmingham are rare, but Winterbourne House is very special. For those who like jazz there is a Jazz by Candelight on Saturday 23rd July. This thread deserves pictures, but I cannot find anything out of copyright. The website however provides a...

Thank you, Lyn. At some point it seems the facade at least was altered, but I do not know the story.

Welcome to BHF Mansfield-Huntley. Any photos & stories on Pinfold House & its residents will be much appreciated here on the forum.

How much detail does the 1780 Sherrif's map show? Is the map accessible anywhere in the web? I have tried web searching, but Sherrif surname crop up without relevance to the map.

So delighted for you, Lyn & Moss, but sad for the people caught up in the bombing.

You are a star for finding those pics, Viv. What a treat to see them. I had not realised quite what an experience it would have been to visit the White Horse. How sad the opportunity is lost to us.

Thank you for adding detail to what we are learning about the White Horse, Astonian. This postcard of Congeve St helps put the pub in context.

Thank you, Mike. My OS map runs out at Metchley Abbey so its the first time I have seen Metchley Grange footprint. I do not think the photos in the link in post 370 are of Metchley Abbey, which in 1911 had 14 rooms. I can tell from the 1911 census the Metchley Grange was far larger at 22 rooms...

The Market Hall have seemed so imposing when it was built, but in that picture it looks, well, small Viv.

Thank you, Phil. You have come up trumps again.

Where exactly was Metchley House in Harborne? The photos here suggest it was very very fine. https://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/results.aspx?index=0&mainQuery=metchley&searchType=all&form=home

Thank you Mike. That site is new to me & its always good to have a new resource.

Here is the earlier White Horse. Joseph McKenna did us a service in providing such an early picture. Again it is from Central Birmingham Pubs, a book worth rereading every now & again.

That would be the White Horse mark 2, Lyn. Attatched is a picture of the 2nd White Horse from McKenna's excellent book Central Birmingham Pubs. The other picture with the White Horse just in shot is from Dent 1894 book The Making of Birmingham...

As always thanks for sharing, Lyn.