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I don't know what the criteria was for the exterior. A plain glass structure would be just that...plain and ugly. Maybe the exterior adornment will prevent bird strikes which is a problem with glass sun screen buildings. So, that at least, is a good thing. The rest is just a matter of weather...

It was Aetna Glass on the 1890 OS map. Not sure if the tower was part of it. The tower was right opposite the Cadbury's factory and in the aerial view it's shadow falls on it and picks it out very nicely. Was a school at that time...

Yeah, maybe taking pictures for posterity or for the council to show what would be happening. This photo seems to be a companion to the other Little Cherry St. one also. Photo's of same row on either side of Corporation St. Just a couple of premmisses missing possibly, that were also removed by...

Can't figure that one Viv. Super shot and showing no sign of any road revision. The slope is the wrong way for it to be the Cannon St. entrance. Shaddows possibly indicate that south is to the left so maybe that is somewhere on Upper Cherry again. Sometimes photo's are improperly labelled though...

I bet that this is the way larger luggage loads were carried and the small slips and safer handling away from the crude loads were a common occurence for the times. It went ahead...to be picked up on arrival by coach with carry-on luggage, so to speak. It was the airport turntable of the time...

Ok... but only a story Viv. but based on the personal experience of a trip to Brum with extended baggage and Pickwick would be a Dickens charachter played by himself surely and the luggage and wharfinger would have been personal gained experience and data. He would write about his associated...

Having not read the Dicken's text, I don't know how the visit to the Wharfinger relates to the story. However, since limited luggage would be carried onboard a horse drawn coach, extended luggage would be presumably sent ahead via. canal barge and the owner/manager of the wharfe would be...

Google Earth has stopped working for me...must have done something wrong...but it seems to me that the Farmers lift locks would be about 500yds north of the Old Royal and Livery St. would run by them. The various lock levels had short wharves I think. The canal would be the Fazely Canal, or too...

Straight ahead beyond the houses post #2122 would have been the Holloway head windmill. Don't think the wagons would have used this steep route though.

I wonder if two of those posts are old cannon from Trafalgar...with a cannon ball in the top.

I wonder if that is taken seriously by outsiders? I suspect not for the best part of a century. I think that there is much more interest in how Robbies getting on with his latest case in Oxford and how the romance with the doctor pathologist will work out. Interesting human series like these are...

'Shooting Brake' denotes the type of vehicle and has nothing to do with the braking system whatsoever. Visualise a van with windows in wooden sides and rear doors. Better still...Google the term. Station wagon is a similar (American) term although not used with wooden sides anymore. The rich...

Not better than a lever...not enough simple mechanical advantage and difficult to operate. However with a bench seat, which the Consul had, it was a solution for an operating mechanism.

The trams were great. Bit of a high first step for kids and probably not acceptible now. The swoosh of riding and general solid feel of everything...seat backs that turned around instead of the whole vehicle. I don't think drivers having to stand up all day was good though. Would be a world...

Looking at the shooting brake in the photo, it might have a military origin; with the rather wide tyres and track. There would have been many around after the war...Humbers and the like. Maybe an Allard with codged up rear fenders.

If you look at the 1883 picture of the Cobden...bottom right of it. The railing and corner bollard are the same ones shown on the photo in post 18. If you look to the right of the Cobden you will see that the street is still un-developed at that point. Maybe as far as the Arcade builing shown in...

'New Inns' was the terminus for the cable trams it seems to me...which is what the trams are in the old photo I think. So that being the case, then the tram has a ways to go and perhaps the building in the distance on the right was the New Inn..I think I read that there was a toll gate there at...

The naming of streets in that small area seemed to change a lot. Invariably Cherry St. ran down to High St. and then only to Crooked Lane to become Union St, on the rest of the way to High St. Crooked Lane itself was also partly called Little Cherry or Upper Cherry for the Ell upper part that...

#2007...Now that is hard to believe. A stunner if correct. Opposite the Town Hall in Victoria Square. That really is one of the great photo's on here. Never seen that one before. Can't be that much later than the 1850s I would'nt think. On the other corner would have been another Temperance...

I guess Oswald Bailey's survived the war with only bomb damage and the corner of Moor St. was reasonably intact. The corner used to be the Temperance Hotel. I had thought that it was levelled down to Moor St. but was probably thinking of a little later period. Good thing Oswald Bailey's...