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Made the mistake of clicking onto this thread earlier and have now spent almost the whole morning on it! Absolutely fascinating, loved every minute of it, thanks to all the contributors -- now I've got to get some housework done before my Missus gets back! Best forum on the web.

Hi Carl, It's often difficult to place exact addresses, the only way it can often be done is to work out approximately from trade or postal directories. the 1890 Kelley's shows A Millikan & Co, ironfounders at 446, then Mre sarah Russell, shopkeeper and Alex McKnight, varnishmaker at 448, then...

Wonderful photo of Martineau Street. Love the two window gazing ladies with their fearsome hats!

I read an article recently that to try and save it from demolition when the congregation had dwindled, the last vicar tried using the church also as a venue for slide shows.

I also have found valuable information about ancestors in newspaper archives that has illuminated their lives in a way that bald facts cannot do. One grumbled about losing a contract supplying watering carts to Birmingham corporation, another involved, though innocently, it seems, in a copyright...

So, more than one petrol pump then! Thanks for the memory Phil.

Just around the corner to the right, next to the white building, was a small garage with, as I remember it, only a single petrol pump. In the 1950s the word would go around that conkers were for sale there. It seems the family had a farm in the country where these coveted items actually grew on...

How fortunate you were to have such a father. As Brian says "hang on to all those good memories". Perhaps when the time is right you might share some of those memories, particularly those relating to why he is your hero? Condolances from Ed and Mo.

I've noticed those gaps when walking in City Road. As there doesn't appear to be corresponding gaps in Poplar Avenue I wonder if it was intended for there to be one crescent road?

Thank you for your kind response. Yes, the Hydrostatic Van was seen as the solution to the vexed problem of inefficient and, for many angry citizens, unfair allocation of street cleansing resources.

My mother's Ist great grand uncle had his nose put out by the introduction of the Hydrostatic Van as this letter of 1875 to the Birmingham Post shows. It led to an exchange of letters in the newspaper in which my ancestor defended his watering cart but the tide of history was against him. The...

I took a few pics of the cottages in 2012: https://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=9182

Hi familysleuth, welcome to the forum. I'm not a fellow researcher for the Lodge family but I took a look on the British Newspaper Archive (which you may likely have a subscription to as you mention 'advertisements') and found a notice in the Birmingham Gazette for Mon 16 Aug 1824 wherein Ann...

The Gullet was cleared for the creation of Corporation Street.

Thanks for the confirmation on Immanuel Church, Mike. As for the buildings below and set back, it looks to me as if this was number 192, which, according to Kelly's 1883 was the premises of Abraham Hoskins, surgeon. By 1892 it was occupied by Charles Edwin Pursloe, MD, surgeon, and continued...

So many wonderful photos on this thread so thanks to all who take the trouble to revive our memories and give much pleasure thereby. The photo of the Church of the Immanuel in particular is so familiar that I have just checked for its position on the 1914 Birmingham West OS map. There is a...

This cutting of 19 Sep 1864 gives some idea of the interior decoration of Day's Hall. How much poorer would the history of Birmingham have been had Mr. Gem had his way. Ed.

"youth for the brazils " Could that be "Brazila", Mike, perhaps to do with coffee? Ed.

Charles Dickens was sixteen when this cold bit of business took place but he would go on to attack the hypocrisy behind such transactions, most famously in his novel, "Oliver Twist". Ed.

I feel pretty sure this is Paxton Road as I remember it. I went to All Saints school and one of the things we used to love doing was running up the dark, enclosed entry that served the back doors of the corner building, to the obvious great annoyance of the residents, and emerge a little...