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Is that the Town Hall in line with the railway? Some of the buildings have a look of those in the 'East Prospect of Birmingham' from 1732.

Old Square Garage, Upper Priory? See this.

May 2021 UB 40 put Birmingham City Centre in the background for Message of Love

A WW2 report on the hazards of dope. INVESTIGATION FOR SIGNS OF BENZENE INTOXICATIONIN WORKERS USING AEROPLANE DOPE AND RUBBERSOLVENTS I expect barrage balloon dope was similar but with the addition of silver. In any case it would have been the solvent that caused the death of Rolfe. When I...

WW2 Railway Service badge by Fattorini of Birmingham. Presumably worn on the lapel of a civilian clothing to show that the wearer was in a reserved occupation.

So they go to the trouble of expense, energy use, carbon dioxide emissions etc. to produce a bit of hardware that will give the light of a candle! A lot easier, and better for the environment, just to let the slugs and worms get on with it!

Surely related to the sewer gas lamp story. From the Guardian article I don't understand how burning methane 'removes 630kg of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere' as burning methane produces carbon dioxide and water. (I have a sneaking suspicion that just leaving the 'poo' on the ground ends up...

Mr. Stainforth, who lived across the road, drove a lorry for Canning's, a low-sided articulated lorry loaded with straw-lined metal-mesh baskets, protecting glass carboys and not a Hazchem label in sight!

The old museum was always worth repeat visits, especially for children as they got older and started to look at the exhibits in more detail. It is sad to see that what once was a whole gallery at Newhall Street has now become a shelf in a cabinet, above the eye-line of a small child, at...

Convention seems to be to use a leading capital followed by lower-case for letters for place names. I say 'seems' because the legislation appears to allow lots of options! [The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 ] i.e. 3.—(1) Any word forming part of a legend provided for in...

Clearly post-1970 as Brindley House is seen standing astride the canal, alongside 95 Newhall Street which was Midlands Telecommunications HQ. The dark-faced floor below the MTRHQ tower housed what was claimed to be the 'largest open-plan office in Europe' at the time. Unfortunately the unions...

Nice view of the rear of the special triangular signals produced for New Street because of the limited clearance beneath the deck. They were of the 'searchlight' pattern, having only one main lens that showed red, yellow or green depending on the position of the filter vane. I believe they were...

What they said in 2017: "Birmingham's historic Curzon Street station is to be brought back to life with a visitor centre and education hub under newly revealed plans. The Grade I-listed entrance building, which is the oldest surviving railway terminal in the world, has been disused for years...

Some of us are old enough not to need any research! The Russians were in the process of installing missiles in Cuba which gave the potential to attack the USA with virtually no warning. The missiles were on their way and could be seen as deck cargo on Russian ships. The USA issued an ultimatum...

A quick trawl on the internet has Sally Mop Rag, Sally Walker, Sally White, Mr. Whirly and Mrs. Whirly also selling fish. One contributor suggests that the phrase could have anyone's name prefixed, so it might have been used to tease other children, particular if "don't buy it! don't buy it! it...

You are right! I've been busy writing up my dad's involvement with Rover cars and 'locked out' of Birmingham so not up to speed. I did do a search before I posted, (General plea: please include titles of things, not just "I read a book.." to aid the searcher). The film gives a false impression...

This film, Dustman's Day, narrated by Sid James, starts in London but goes on to show Birmingham men using their small tin baths to empty bins into and the introduction of the wheeled dollies to move the new-fangled dustbins with hinged lids, the foreunner of the 'wheelie bin'.

This one? A Congregationalists and Independents church?

According to The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Vol. 5. S. Jenkins & M. Loader: "Opened for 'short' (i.e. local) trains in December 1844, the first station was a simple wayside stopping place with staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing. The present station was opened on 1...