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Looks like an assembly of boxes in a wooly sweater. Makes the horrid inverted pyramid look good.

Great photo and the best I have seen of the Aston Hipodrome.

Another stunning shot of a simpler time and have included the 1890 OS map of where I think it must be and since it is a steam tram, the map must be about the same time period. There is only a single track there so the steam tram must have had to go into the tram depot and reverse out onto...

A cracking shot and I am always amazed at how much you can zoom these old photo's and still see detail. If you zoom the top of the street you can see the base of Christ Church with the awning of the shell fish retailer. So this would be pre the domo of that place...can't remember that date...

These are all fine pictures of course and what comes to mind, for me anyway, are the suttle disconnects with today , here and there. On the previous post one can see a junction, not more down town but a fairly major one never the less and there are the corner shops. More of them here say than...

I love the picture of Cuckoo Rd Berniew and have included the link to 1890 map. So this photo shows tram lines which the map does not...also overhead electric cables; so this must be about 1920s maybe. A busy scene for the outskirts perhaps and the foreground row houses are possibly what many of...

I was not employed by C&A but worked in the building in the early 60s. Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth had an office there and we worked on the 4 engine Argosy Freighter. Not a great success story but they made a few.

Those photo's are not of the same location Viv. The later one is about 55/60 ish, going by the Ford Thames 5 cwt. van and is looking south east on Bull St. from the Minories/Temple Row. Dale End in the distance. The older 1890 ish photo is the same as the previous one posted before but shows a...

Yes Shortie, thats about the duration of the steam trams, give or take. The buildings; well I suppose everything wears out eventually...especially so if little maintenance is given. Materials and labour costs req'd to build and extra height to give more for a given area are all features though...

The following photo is a seemingly everyday scene in the Old Square and is I think later than the early photo of the junction of Bull Street and the new Corporation Street. Not much later though. Still the steam trams seem to be an everyday part of life, now, and not paid attention to at all...

Threads cross over from time to time and there is no way around it. These photo's axpand on the Bull St thread though ie., taken from Bull Street and the above enlargement helps. With respect to the photo, one wonders why Cherry Street is on the building on a pretty determindly fixed sign. Since...

Here are a couple of photo's for comparison. The first is the photo just posted of the Corporation Street development days around 1885 to 1900 or so and the second one is 40 years later and 1930. They are taken from almost the same location but the second photo is from a little further down...

We are getting back to times when men walked around in ballay tights and women had skirts held out by a dome like corset structure. All of which seems amazing now. Some of the Bull St., 'photo's', never mind paintings, show a society where transportation was entirely powered by horses...in...

What a great find and it ties in the just done research about the improbable looking house and also again, improbable location with no actual street frontage ever. A gem of a piece of information to ...well..just know. I am thinking that there was no opening there in my time but was probably...

Yes Viv on all counts. I was thinking of doing the same matchup but you beat me to it. The matchup shows the swath cut through. Some of the buildings in the drawing can be easily identified but one or two can not but still look old. The ones on the corner look like they are due to be replaced...

Re. post #196. I thought that this was the Old Square and Berlin House but not so I think. It must be the junction of Bull St and Corporation St. looking south along Corporation Street. Hmm tough one. If that is right then Lewis's corner (across the street on the right) seems to have a railing...

That is a fine mural but the Brummies are so grumpy.

Behind the buildings on the immediate left on this last photo was the Quaker meeting house with it's pillard portico and garden's...we would never have seen it even if alive then. Strange situation for a building...no street frontage and completely surrounded even when just built probably. The...

The accompanying photos' one repeated show what may be a tower on a building in the old square pre. latter day Lewis's. Look at the right side of the roof on Viv's post and look also at the tower in the Old Square. The 1890 OS shows a garden in the courtyard behind buildings on Bull St. Now if...

Yes, go a bit lower. I think the corner of the roof of the house is just poking up with a couple of bushes in front. Well it might be wrong Mike, there are a couple of anomolies. On Vivs picture there is no passage way between the buildings.