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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...

Concrete is not a new phenomena and I suspect that the Romans knew more about it than we do. Still it is not a comforting media but I suppose that anything will age badly without maintenance. Maybe that is the rub...you can replace a brick or two or point the cement but I don't know what you do...

Yeah, walked down Worcester Street past those shops many times; to catch the Worcester 144 bus. Actually they look in decent nick but were quite old maybe. When the High Street buildings were demolished these peaks stood out on the skyline. I think the 144 terminus was in Station Street. Would...

They were on Worcester Street above Queens Drive.

It's funny, looking at the school kids in front of The Theatre Royal; we would have known the view well but to see the long dresses and childrens clothes, makes it all look like a staged scene. It's kind of hard to associate the old dress with buildings that we would have known so much...

No. demoed way before.

What a great photo #124. Yeah 1960 and the old back to backs were still around. Not spoiling the mirth of this spirited group though. Yeah, miskins thats what we called them. Contained everything from potato peelings to ashes from the coal fire.

There was another movie made about the day after the raid. It was called 'Crispins Day' and was about a photo aircraft going over the area in daytime to take pictures of the resulting damage. Can't remember the actors now.

Firstly what a great idea for a thread. The comentary and imagined stories are wonderful to read. In picture #3 I have wondered what the pavilions were on the right. At first glance I thought they were shelters for busses or trams but they are on the other side of the Church railings. If you...

The picture on post #1805 is wonderful. Oh, we have seen this same shot and paintings of such before but not this exact one, I think. Maybe it was here and I missed it. Anyway what a great shot down Paradise Street. Photography was in it's stride right then and there is possibly the last...

One for the Ghost Sign thread. Times change...what happens to all of the beer now...less barrel and more bottle? Less drinking out and more at home or less drinking totally.

You know, linking these photo's with text certainly brings out the flavour of a long gone life. In this case Dickens seemingly. Well done.

Interesting thread and knew the place well. Had many a bag of winkles or small clams outside there...waiting for hours for parents to come out...ah the good old days. Would never have thought of doing that to my kids. Anyway have posted the link to the 1890 map that seems to fairly well...

A 10 oz striploin Julia ou jou bedecked with mushrooms with mashed and brocoli and a nice bottle of cabernet. Yeah I can see that....Scottie...beam it here.

The old Jamaica Row rag market and area was a place used by human beings; with horse drawn carts in the road outside and litter of commerce about. The smells of old clothing and dust and horse manure outside were there and yes lead toy soldiers. No smart clothing was worn there except by the...

Hi, Betty. It's a long time ago but as I recall Lycra was a synthetic stretchy yarn like material that was fed into, a circular knitting machine with the regular yarn; I don't know...cotton or whatever. All knitted together to form a continuous largish tube of fabric. The fabric produced had...

Gosh that brings back memories. Early in my carreer I designed a Lycra let off device for feeding Lycra into a circular knitting machine; for making stretch fabric. Small world.

You know I seem to have looked at this before and I believe that the name of Lawrence St. did change at the jog but can't remember if the latter name is right.

The Gullet started at the junction of James Watt St/Stafford St/Coleshill St. At the eastern end of Dale End. It's the narrow alley just to the left of Stafford St. Probably the upper end was cleared during the Corporation St. construction but it seems that the lower end remained including the...

When you look at Potters Hill today it is unrecognisable except for the Pub. It has all been wiped away. It is sad...not that todays views are not nice in many ways...trees and greenery and fresh buildings in places...but sad because, well, the wiping away part. For us anyway; because it was a...