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Hello, If you take a look at the Post ‘Gas Holders in Birmingham’ on this site #77 shows a picture of the last BCC managed gas lamp being removed.

Front page of the Birmingham Post 2018,

The bye product of ‘Town Gas’ was coke , in my early days in the gas industry I heard numerous very amusing stories of the residual coke being sold on a Saturday at most of local gas works . The smaller the works the more ‘relaxed’ the transactions were; for example prams were used for...

The cover page of the programme of the opening of Elmdon Airport (source content government.com)

Picture of the old WMGB HQ Wharf Lane, in its time it was state of the art design and detail for its employees

Advertisement for the Alhambra Moseley Rd

Hello Eric, That is a wonderful memory of your visit to the original Elmdon airport, thank you very much for sharing the story. I assume it is the Bryant's builders of Whitmore Road Small Heath you are talking about, I recall their office halfway down Whitmore Rd on the right off Coventry rd...

Try this link https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gallery/elmdon-airport-15056122

Birmingham City flying from Elmdon airport to play in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup semi final replay match against Barcelona. 25th November 1957.

Concorde at Birmingham Airport September 1980

I was born on Moseley Road, and I can remember walking past the swimming baths where the grills were that looked down on the mezzanine level under the baths and watching the water being flushed making a great noise , it always made me a bit scared .

Thank , I must confess I was part of the NEC construction and the A45 diversions/ Motorway build.

Got it, the old entrance to Elmdon by the traffic lights opposite Damson lane

Found this on an Elmdon Airport website.

Was that the half island by the pub the Arden Oak, where the bus’s turned around (58)

A Shorts Sterling Bomber at the Austin Aero works based at Elmdon Airport (Source the World at War supplement)

I got this picture from a friend in Coventry , I am told it is of a Royal Warwicks Regiment before deployment to France in 1914. I have no further information dates, names, etc .

Did the Lawley Street Depot become National Carriers in the 70’s ? We use to play cricket against them, their ground were Adderley Park , but mostly Ward End Park.

I think (not sure) this little petrol station was on the corner of Preston Road / Coventry Road Yardley past the Swan shopping centre towards the airport. it was a typical small station I remember around the Small Heath, Hay Mills, and Yardley area in the 60’s

A picture of a house interior 1960 ish ?