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Re post#164 by Viv, The barn like structure is on the left of the picture and Bull St would be to the right. All can be seen in plan view on the 1890 OS and hopefully the map is included. The frontal building in your posted picture is in plan view just to the left of HO in meeting house on the...

Ah, well done. I was just about to say that I did not remember the other building being on Bull St. either.with the parking places and all. So is this down Dr. Johnson's passage? On the corner of Dr. Johnsons Passage is a dry cleaners called...Johnson's. OK I like it. Further back from there...

Refering to post #94. I have difficulty in seeing how the older Meeting House could have fronted on Bull Street. Since photography only started about 1848 the picture looks decidedly refined and I can't see how that garden would have fitted in. Another thing is that it is decidedly not a barn...

I think that the two pictures of Bull Street are fairly close date wise and maybe what I thought was a ladder up Bull St. may in fact be a prop. Anyway it seems to me, by looking at both photo's, that the road to the right might be Dalton St. It looks more in perspective distance wise on the...

The picture #125 has some hints of the old wild west in a way...maybe it's just the covered wagon. Anyway I wonder what building is right at the top of Bull Street. It seems too far away to be Lewis's on the corner of Corporation St. and the latter Lewis's building was built in 1920 I believe...

Yeah, Viv's last picture #124 is pretty much the last of the Lamb House which must have featured prominently in the years of the Welch Market at Dale End. If you look at the extreame bottom left you can just see what had become the tunnel entrance to Crooked Lane and Martieneau Street ran right...

Not a destination for most Brummies I think and was only by the church once in 28 years there. Seem to remember that it seemed to be shuttered and un-used but must have been wrong. Yes a quiet place and probably a sought after residence now...the square I mean. Finding a place to park your...

The ring is in a picture posted here Viv. Not what I thought...the name of an area of some description but a simple iron ring cemented, as stated, in the ground. Just to tether an animal to; right outside of St Martins. One ring says it all wether used or not. Anyway, thanks for the link. It...

There is another aspect to this that should not be ignored and that is what the bulls represent. The Bull Ring was just a name to me and I don;t know that I ever gave any consideration to it. I thought probably that it was a ring like the Spanish ones but could not see some how Englishmen...

My fond memories of the Bull Ring go back way before any of this and, whilst I was around when the old market hall was demolished and do remember the fish market being inside further down the hill by a multi storey parking lot, I still remember that as the destruction of my memories. So I would...

Post #135. One of the great photo's on here Vivienne14. Have seen many others of the same shot pretty much, of different years but none as interesting as that one. Yeah, the library in later years anyway (not sure what it started out as) but passed it every day 52/55. Busses in those years of...

Re: "The Man who Changed the Face of Birmingham" - a new book about Pugin the Archite Yeah, you got it Jenny and I thought that it was the latter who would be the subject, when I read the title. I was just trying for a bit of humour and maybe missed the mark.

Re: "The Man who Changed the Face of Birmingham" - a new book about Pugin the Archite Jennyann, I think they have the wrong guy in the book. The right one used other means.

I think that the Swan was no longer a pub when it was demolished around 2006 or so. Anyway included is a picture of it just before it was pulled down. A pity realy as it had been a landmark on the hill for donkey's years. I wonder if any of the lupins survived in the gardens behind. Actually...

Maybe there is something that I am missing here, but why do these trees have to be on the web at all. Surely they are a personal family thing that should be private. My wife did her tree and included the info that I had but most was her family and it was put on a line chart that when unrolled...

Even without the artistic offerings, the concrete still is a horror story. Maudlin and drab and dirty. Upkeep takes money though...which is in short supply. Maybe a new sort of conscription is required to sort it...2 years after schooling...in the jungle.

Here is a 1890 map of River Street Digbeth. It shows some 'back to back' housing. Also a modern Google view...hopefully. Ignore the annotation on the photo...I believe the Heath Mill was at the top of the street but there is some doubt about this now...

I aplaud the piece and it is indeed very well written invoking visions of the times. However I suspect that for many; maybe most, of us back then a semi with an indoor bathroom and tub and possibly a semblance of hot running water would have been un-dreamed of. Un-dreamed of because none we knew...

Yeah, I remember that...sitting around the fire trying to stay warm. Usually in the one room in the house that was heated. Ours would have been coal. Yeah, no sitting around a tele...if you had one...more important to stay warm. Any television would be set off to the side then and not many had...

I don't think that it is 'It' that you remember but the family that you relied upon for support and 'It' was co-incidental and remembered because of this fact. The support, that was in both directions, was the bond. That bond, being there, would have only been enhanced by improved living...