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Carolina, what a wonderful piece of creative writing. We loved the part about the cat and her kittens and yes, the sideboard was a central piece containing the things that you said. Made me quite nostalgic for those times but I suspect it is an age thing...and thinking about ones youth. I...

Thanks for the pictures and maps. There is about a hundred years between these maps and the Westley prospect though and much change probably, to the pooling and original tandem mill. Is the purple line a boundry and what is the smaller stream to the laft?

Wow, the floodgates have opened. Well done. I particularly like #17. A better sketch of the first dedicated King Edwards building and it's tower. I wish it went a little further to the right...ah well. All of the maps seem to show this building as being not as long a street run as the later and...

I suppose as a monument it makes the grade but as a building it's a failure. The previous photo's show how much space is lost under the roof. There is more space on the outside, under the roof, than on the inside. When the ring road was built it was hard to decide which buildings to remove and...

Yeah, amazing how well the old OS matches. and you can still see features. Looks like the fish pond is a little forrest now. The mill shaft has found it's way home in photo's. I'm not sure what the Brook is, it gets a little confusing around there...maybe Merrits or the one it run's into. Anyway...

If you type middleacre road birmingham england into Google Earth it will take you to what I believe is the location of a mill. The following map is a 1890 ref. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55194&sheetid=10120&ox=4156&oy=433&zm=2&czm=2&x=316&y=173 There are places...

Behind the statue is the main mill shaft of the California Watermill Bartley Green. A wooden speed-up gear with wooden teeth by the look of it. Still in remarkable shape.

I wonder what was inside these shelters..looks like a stove...maybe a tea urn. Wonder if any survived. Outside the Midland Institute and Central library would be a good place to pick up fares.

The maps on post 83 are not orientated similarly. To be correct the bottom map needs to be rotated 180 degrees to match the top one. Great Bar became Heathmill at Fazeley. To match up to the 1890 survey both maps will have to be rotated 90 degrees again. Both maps are new (to me anyway) and...

In post #70 I proposed that the later day aerial shot of the building on Fazeley St. was in fact the same building as the one on the Westly Prospect and thought that it might have started off as Coopers residence. Now, to the north of this building, lower down on the proposed Fazeley St. the...

I have seen that view before but not as nice a painting as that. That fence was everywhere and in front of the old buildings, that were demolished before the Town Hall was built...there was a drop down to the road surface. Subsequent building must have levelled the land down perhaps.

The buildings that they replaced were no great hell...go back at least another generation...before Goring.

The last painting in post #167 has been here before, showing a somewhat rare viewing of the buildings on the south side of Paradise St. in the time prior to the building of the Council House when Alldins ? was still there on the corner of Ann/Congreve. Front left are the railings of Christ...

I find that what is around the edges of the pictures of the T.H. and other notable buildings over time; is more interesting than the subject matter. We occasionally get glimpses of other things. The first picture in post #168 is taken from Paradise St. and shows the cabbies shelter and cabs...

River Rae at Fazely Street. The photo is the other side of the aquaduct shown on sketch middle left. Both photo and sketch posted previously by others. Just below the yellow cross is the Gun Barrel Proof House and above is St Phillips. Green lines are Birmingham and Warwick canals. Added Picture.

It's like anything. Records are made to be broken and climates change. Of course they had to consider the flood table and must have taken measures. They did not work all of the time. Most of the rivers and brooks are culverted now and mostly there is not much flow. At least I never noticed much.

Old time building stayed away from the flood plains and you can see evidence of this in old pictures on this forum, here and Hockley Brook. If building on flood plains is to take place then deepening measures have to be taken. Even then the measures are not always adequate but occurencies are...

I could be wrong but I don't think that the Rea has ever carried much water , except in flood conditions. However there was a millpond that was engineered for the Heath Mill/Coopers Mill in Floodgate Street. The weir made there formed a mill pond with the mill and head race draining off at...

If you go to Google Earth today. you can still see the openings/entrances post #28 and #30 and there are street view pictures to be seen by using the little man. The buildings on post #28 have gone but you can see a few feet high of the wall above the sidewalk that runs along most of the street...

Wow Dennis, bostin. They use wizzard on the midwives. Never have seen that loading shelter before...before my time. What a super thing to have around now for something. No busses or trams there now but still they were talking about a tracked vehicle across town from Snow Hill. Yeah Victorian and...