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It has been a busy and taxing week, as everywhere of course, and I have checked back only now. Excellent work on this and the others now-added, wonderful for anyone coming along later or searching for connections - good of you to take the time. And the track seems now to be closely assumable...

guilbert53 that was, and remains, a mammoth undertaking .... and, poetically, one that records another one! The regeneration of the individual canalside areas and the emergence of the greater Brindley Place scheme as they all connected was I think never really appreciated because of the...

Good to hear it is a piece of green in the city again and not been built-upon for the past 20-30-40 years! I'll have to take a moment and stop for a look when around that way some time. Just looked on Google Maps and wow that entire area has changed so much! I would never have placed that...

Apologies as well as thanks for the link guilbert53 ... I seem to have missed you yesterday among my comings-and-goings. Keep taking your photos, 50 years from now future generations will be looking at them marvelling at how wonderful it is to see what things were like way back in the Olden...

.. Oh, and "aeroplane" please, "airplane" is so vulgarly American and not at all Bitish! :) ;)

That's precisely how I randomly arrived at an Elmdon post on some thread or other, which brought my ancient photos to mind for the first time in pretty well 50 years of being stored in a box/es through a series of attics as we have variously moved houses, and started this thread off wondering if...

I'm jumping about a fair bit today, but will certainly get comfy and take a look this evening, thanks! TQ

I was P2 so Right seat, though as-suitable I was leaning across, turning round, reaching over, lol ... a couple were even out of the rear windows in an arm-out stretch when something just looked good that way, I recall. 33, no recollection now from P2 of initial local instructions/departure...

Undeniably so, and thanks for the perfect input. You brought a couple of memories back as I used to fly out of Baginton, much more pleasant a base for jaunts. My friend was only in Solihull however so was getting his licence at Elmdon, and it made more sense to go from there anyway given the...

Without doubt, clearly no question at all .. also corroborated by the smaller nearby lake the way that it is. Thanks for the excellent input. And you might have jogged my memory a little now. That was I think the turning point for the return journey north ... "pick a feature on the ground, and...

Thank You Curly, Ace! TQ

Lol .... I'm even coming to think that myself now, looking back through a 50 year old window even though it could do with a jolly good clean! Maybe they aren't all that bad after all :) TQ

Thanks Morturn, and also for confirming MWS's doubt. Clearly that's spot-on! It is an area with which I am not at all familiar, however the Eastfields Road tunnel that closely resembles this one in certain aspects came to mind because I used to go through it at intervals if I took a certain...

Thanks for the suggestion, and from Google Earth it is certainly easy to see a 50-years shapeshifted version being an option but for its perceived surroundings. On a side note, I'm certainly getting a crash-course on Birmingham lakes! Thanks Malvernian, and there seems very little doubt that...

A dog track could be an option of course ... I'm not sure that the photo fits with the Aldridge road as it is today, but 50-ish years ago with all the changes who knows? :) Thanks for the thought. TQ

Thank you for your welcome and kind words Lyn, and I'm glad I have found a safe and suitable place for them. I will be adding to other threads on this and that too I am sure, and possibly with related photos on occasion. Best, TQ

Of Course!! Thank you both, I recognise the drive-in tyre place - which I think was there around the time I am thinking - but even more embarrassingly I used to do some occasional business with a firm called Disney -something-or-other in the building next to it, and visited there now and then...

Appears to be more than probable, given that the difference between my photo and the current Googlemap image (just looked!) is pretty minor and easily accounted for by a couple of generations worth of housebuilding replacements/alterations to the corner bungalows and the main roofs ... plus...

My pleasure, and I hope they maybe jog some memories for others. I used a commercial slide/negative scan/input device, a stand-alone piece of kit I needed for a commercial project a while ago and was able to borrow-back for these negs ... for a very short moment it made me enthusiastic to go...

Thanks for the welcome, most kind.