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Yeah in the Victoria Sq. photo you can see bunting to celebrate and the cars seem to be about the right date for 1937. The Old Square photo shows an early electric bus that still retains it's petrol engine radiator frontage. This photo is one of the great pictures on here...it's so un-posed and...

Most Planes anywhere : https://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive1.htm https://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29634.htm https://www.maxfield.org/ukPages/wars/1914-18.htm Don't know if this was the same Maxfield.

Brilliant piece of work! Wolverhampton. None of the current major road system was there back then and everything would have been closer. The wharf basin is still in place. Timber yards had those hand trucks for local delivery. Pushed one of those with my dad from Dartmouth St. to Washwood Heath...

You got it. I think. Which photo is older? Looks like the bollards have gone.

Re: Canals of Birmingham I don't know about museums. They may or may not be visited much. Why not refurbish the structure for use of canal boaters...laundry facilities...showers or even a Turkish baths or sauna. Groceries even and stores. Boats have facilities of...

I don't know about museums. They may or may not be visited much. Why not refurbish the structure for use of canal boaters...laundry facilities...showers or even a Turkish baths or sauna. Groceries even and stores. Boats have facilities of course, but can only carry so much water. Pump out...

I think that these searches teach a lot about old Brum that...well...I for one, knew nothing about.

Yes!!! bonafide points at last. I think you guys did all of the work though.

Conway Road

Just looking at GE and I think that the houses on Wyndhurst road would not be far enough in the distance from there and the ones that would be in the view, it seems to me are semi's. Whereas the houses in the 38 photo are longer tenements containing more dwellings. Perhaps the fence on the left...

I don't know, GE shows reasonable flatness in that immediate area and the terrain seems to rise a bit around the bend in the left of the photo. In the distance you can see what are possibly the row houses on Church Ln. with housing development in progress towards the camera where the farm was...

OK, sorry for not getting back sooner. Yeah, I found it interesting too but I am pretty sure that Phil is right. I find it difficult to navigate in this location,,,the old OS map sheets overlap and only 10,000/1 is available on British History On Line in this area. The current building is so...

Phil, what is the blacked out street name on the photo. I get your point.

Your second map shows the actual building and the angled row houses and changed Lye Close route so it must be later than the old pub photo. Re-orientate your maps so that the Clapgate streets line up. Rotate the second one about 70 clockwise.

I suspect that rumors of the demise of the building may be premature and the above maps are not similarly oriented. The building does not seem to have moved at all but the end of Lyeclose has. The second map shows the change to Lyeclose and also shows the subject pub building I believe. Maybe...

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Think you have the wrong spot Phil. Strange to have a location area called Moor Street. Anyway the road to the right of the building has been re-routed and what seems like a row house building is there now. The Old Crown building is still there though. Tricky area to navigate this is for some...

There is a house on that spot but the frontage has changed a bit and the road on the right of the photo has been re-routed. Not a pub anymore. If a nailing location there may have been a mill in the locality for drawing wire.

A wild one...Kings Head. I thought The Black Horse, Manor Way, might be possible but that one has been rejected already.

How about Lodgefield road by the cricket club.