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There has been much on here about this subject and from what I recall the City Arcade was flattened by Hitler for the most part and never re-constructed. However a small stretch of it running from Union Passage to Warwick Passage still exists in it's original condition...that's the top diagonal...

Post #1908. Great and intreagueing photo by Berniew. Not an Abbey at all realy but a wierd house built by an industrialist who made thimbles, to keep his workforce employed in lean times. Built using ashes from Aston Furnace down stream...of which there were lots and lots. The 1890 link shows...

Hmmm..might not have been 'third world' but a lot of it was two and a half's worth.

The little chapel is the fish market which I suspect is often confused with the market hall; where they also sold fish. Perhaps the fish market was wholesale. Maybe the two similar photo's were taken as a series at the same time from slightly different perspectives. The church clock is the same...

Well maybe that is not the finished front and perhaps there are some panels to be bolted on. I'm sure that must be the case.

That would have been late forties or early fifties I think. The bus looks a bit run down and remember well those old busses leaning a bit in the corners or just from the camber of the road. I think I would be a bit grumpy about being dressed in leggings...the horror of it.

The cladding will probably stop bird strikes but may encourage nesting.

Wow...that brings back memories. A great reminder of how our leaning back garden pailings used to look. I wonder what name that style goes under...what were they thinking?

No, long gone and replaced a couple of times after that.

It seems that the Manor House moat was filled in, in 1815; so it took quite a while before the Smithfield Market was built on the site. All of which might put to question...the fact that the site was levelled to build Smithfield. So it would have been like the flattened bombed building sites...

Must have missed this thread for a while. Yes a couple of fine photo's of New Street and a particularly nice sketch of King Edwards with the end of the Hen And Chickens...showing it's coach entrance which must have been a challenge for coachmen. The roadway was pretty wide there and coaches seem...

Mike, did not know it was yours, anyway I just re-post the ones I have from here and remember about and think may be relevant. This area is ground zero for Brum and some newer members may not have seen these photo's and maybe won't because of the wipe out. Some may be interested. Mohawk, there...

I can't locate the tower on the 1890 map link. You would have thought that it would have stood out. It's gone now and the area is hardly recognisable...it all might never have been. Still I think that the tower was around untill fairly recently. Sherlock Street on the map link was pretty much...

The Drovers is on the corner of Bradford St. and Smithfield St. and the pram is standing right at the spot where the bridge over the moat to the Manor House was...the moat having been filled in. The tower seems to be in Bradford St. There does not seem to be any tram rails in the photo and if...

There is a picture on here somewhere of a tram on it's side at that corner and read somewhere that the last of trams were pushed down Car's Lane to a breakers yard or transportation thereto. The sevice in the picture may have been discontinued way before and there are no overhead power lines. Ah...

The thing was you could taboggan down the hill to the frozen pond in the winter.

Salford Bridge is another fine shot.

Re. #182 Knowing about stageing or not makes a difference to how one appreciates the photo but still one of the great photo's on here. I don't think that going shoeless for the youngsters would have been totally unusual for poor families or ones where the corner pub was visited a lot...at the...

This link may be helpfull...https://www.c-b-a.co.uk/cba-members-list/117.html?Itemid=39

It's funny that the description was 'boat building'...well not funny but maybe accurate. I read on here, years ago now in 'the canals of birmingham' thread, that the canal watercraft were always called boats and your post seems to confirm the same. I think Narrow Boats was the official...