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I wonder if the farm on post #2571 is the one on the included map portion 1890. Called Mill Farm on the map but the scene seems to tie in with the buildings and trees and river Tame. The photo looking down from the top and the bank with the fences on top diverting the river down past the old...

Yeah, agree with cookie/Eric entirely. I have not read all of the posts on here but would be suprised if anyone would have sentimental thoughts about back-to-backs and yeah, the museum pieces are looking nowt like most of the photo's on this forum. It's funny, when you leave GB, often you...

Anyone know the date of aerial post #2373

I think the buildings on the left (post 141) were still around in our time and the wall is very familiar too but...I think the distance between the two was greater than appears in the painting though... but that is what painting is about...creating a scene. The flavour of the location was still...

I always enjoy looking at that picture and must have caught the Worcester Midland Red by the wall on the right many times.

I seem to remember being told that Birmingham had great sand; for making castings I suppose. However there was a confluence of streams and rivers in the area also. Not a great amount of water in any...but enough for the power requirements at startup and for a while. The Rae, Cole, Tame and...

You know there was a person looking for a past relative a few years back; who went to this school. He lived on Bridge St in the 19th cent I think and walked down Bridge St. to the school. I think it was a specialised school of arts or some such. Great posts...wonder how much the apartments go...

Looks a bit earlier than 1964 to me judging by the number of older era cars.

Jeesh! who lived in these so called cottages.

The photo of the building was taken in 1886 from the text in the book and Martineau St. construction was started in 1887 after being delayed many years. So perhaps the photo was for refference. Cadbury's moved out in 1847 because of impending railway construction. Presumably the ditch to Snow...

I could be wrong and stand corrected if so, but I think your second photo might have been A.B.Row Viv.

The buildings might have been aquired by the city for demolition in 1847 for the construction of the railway to Snow Hill (the reason given for Cadbury's moving). But it was not required and only Martineau Street was put through but quite some time later. Residential density of Crooked Lane...

Well, it's pretty certain now that the two houses in the first photo can easily be picked out in the clipped second picture and were indeed demolished for the inclusion of Corporation St. We can see them in place right next to the Union Hotel and probably the first one was actually part of the...

The second picture on post #49 is a stunner and not seen before....Looking up Union Street...wow. Have not seen the right hand part of the street before and even though the angle of it is oblique it is still wonderful. We may be able to determine something from the residences in the background...

These photo's go with the post above.

No. the Union Hotel was at the corner of Union St. right at Corporation. See post 33. As phil said the Dispensary was also in Union St., at the bottom, close to High St....the building still around in our day amazingly. The tall building. This is looking towards High St. which is just 50 yards...

Great, locates two buildings in one go. However that is not Cherry Street but it is Little Cherry Street. Right at the elbow and the meeting house is on the corner where I thought it was. The buildings facing are in the photo in post #16. These again on the same side of Little Cherry described...

I have wondered about the location of Cadbury's in Crooked Lane for a while. We know that the first factory was there but the exact location has eluded us I think...unless I have missed a post or two. Anyway, I was looking through saved photo's and artwork and would like to put forward the...

#37 is a photograph is it not. Possibly not long before demolition perhaps. There is a road on the photo #30 entering from bottom right which does not seem to jell with Fore St. Still photo's have been mis-labled before. Since photography would have been the high tech of the age, maybe there was...

Neet one Viv, I wonder if anyone knows where it was. Anyway it looks to me that this was in the inside elbow of Little Cherry with what looks like Union Passage at the bottom end of the left portion which bends into Crooked Lane. Whatever...another piece.