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That's great! You can begin to imagine how magical it would have been like to have been at the Town Hall for the reading.

Enjoy your Christmas break! Thanks for the work you do on sorting through great old photos for us :)

In the local news today... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39p38ggrljo

Yes! The building doesn't look in very good condition does it, not with those exposed roof beams at the left side of the house in the picture, possibly some sort of outbuildings.

Very brave. The sort of thing your Mom and Dad would have told you not to do!! We used to call those pipes a monkey bridge.

That would be in the Hamstead Playing Fields area I guess, Beauchamp Avenue houses in the distance?

Not quite sure if this should go in the Hill Street thread? It refers to the vacant plot where the Golden Eagle used to stand - permission refused for the building of student accommodation... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8qpee37g3o

Would that be Alex's Pie Stand in the first picture?!

Yes, that's the one I found and put in my original post!

An interesting company that doesn't appear to have been posted before, I came across the name today when waiting for the Circle Line at Kensington High Street Station! I just happened to look down at the iron column holding up the glass roof and the name and location of the company on it caught...

Yes indeed, we had one too!

Posted recently on a FB page.. Valor Company Ltd. was founded in Birmingham in 1890, initially producing oil storage cabinets for the Anglo-American Oil Company diversifying its production to portable oil heaters, which became very popular for heating homes and later gas heaters and...

Yes indeed! Not saying it's a bad thing but it does make you smile to see not-so-old photos and films with no protective head gear or hi-viz jackets and wearing their own clothes! Re the flyover, what a great piece of engineering it was for the time. I don't think there was anything like it in...

I found this, I guess it's the shop you mean - seems they ran an agency for local bands too... http://p-c-r-l.blogspot.com/2016/02/rising-star-agency-bands.html?m=1

Digbeth Police Station is to reopen! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxgp461wgwo

I can't actually read the article in the link without subscribing, was the bar in the Skin Hospital then? I wouldn't have known that in 2017 as I'd left Birmingham by then.

I think that was probably another building. I worked part time at the old Ikon Gallery in John Bright Street in the 90s and there were offices in the Skin Hospital building then, the Birmingham Royal Ballet originally had an office in there.

I'm still using a couple of saucepans I bought from a stall holder in the Rag Market in the 80s, I'm sure they'll last me out!

An interesting article on a little known scientist and photographer George Shaw. New Street There is an exhibition of his work at the Town Hall tram stop until January ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d5yly53yo

Very nice. Yes, the pigeons crossed my mind too!