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This has become a sad thread to read. Not the posts, which are wonderful comments of our past lives but the fact that many of the posters have gone...either left the forum for one reason or another, or passed on. I have seen this thread pop up a few times and not bothered to open it, but this...

The houses there fronted on the streets with no garden hardly but the homes on Vauxhall Grove were the opposite orientation and probably much older. They had long front gardens and were larger and can be seen on a sketch of Vauxhall Gardens from the other side...just. There were no houses on...

Gem street ran from Coleshill Street to Aston Road. The Gaity Theater was on the corner at Coleshill Street. Using British History On Line (Maps Section) and GE you can do it yourself. GE will give the approximate location and by relating this to the Bull Ring you can go to BHOL and locate...

Yeah, it's Highgate Park right enough and if you look on the 1890 OS you will be able to recognise the paths in the park. Perhaps some of the park was cut off by the road bend of New Mosely Road...perhaps a later addition than when the picture was made. So maybe only a single flight of stairs...

Steelhouse Lane

There is a canal ending/starting at Tiverton Devon. Dredged and working....with boat tours I think. Half way up Canal Hill.

I don't know, 6 miles is a fair distance for most to walk. Maybe I am just thinking of myself. Still take a lunch and saunter and it should make an interesting day. A way around any tunnels might be useful. Wish I could come but can only manage a mile and a half on the treadmill these days and...

I don't know what the sluice does at Stratford these days. (post #508) As you say there used to be a watermill in that location which probably required the construction of the weir dam and the sluice shown (sans modern metal structure) was probably the tailrace from the water mill. If the mill...

The last time I read there was going on about 3000 miles of useable canal still available in GB and in their prime about 3500 miles. You can still travel from the Bristol Channel to the North Sea by narrow boat. Makes a good study following the canals from one side to the other on GE...takes...

Actually, the above photo confirms what happened to those railings and other photo's on here show the church yard sans railings...just stubs remaining. Waist coats have disappeared pretty much now....they hid your braces. Yeah the one fella has his top button undone to relieve the 'after lunch'...

For over six months now I have ditched my belt and made a return to bracers again after not using them since the late sixties. Well...you see them more and more these days even on TV news anchor men and young folk in their teens. Bracers were almost universal in the UK up to the late sixties any...

'Army issue' now there's another angle and I seem to think that I have seen modern day Seals and maybe Firemen also, wearing both belt and bracers. I guess you can't pause to hitch-up your pants in a desperate situation.

That is a wonderful photo Anne. I'm not too interested in the pram...the whole shot is tremendous and gives a history lesson about conditions that were around in 'the old days'. Had forgotten how high pants came up with the waist almost up to the armpits. Shaving with cold water was not...

You might see Prince William in the crowd.

Add my condolences too. She would have seen for real much of what we only have seen in pictures.

You guys sure know how to hurt a fella. I love whelks and jellied eels, but can't seem to get them here. Not even a small plate with a pinch of salt and malt vinegar. I was down the lower St. Lawrence in Quebec a few years back and went in a fish store and...gosh there they were...whelks. Ready...

Not so sure about the Eifel. The one in the photo has wide running boards and may be the V8, or there abouts, in the supplied pictures. Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that the Eifel was a smaller car without wide running boards. Very similar in appearance though. The front vehicle is a Ford...

Now Phil, I have seen that photographic view before but this one is a stunner. Older perhaps and not capturing movement and people. I have always wondered which way this was looking...not down towards Dale End perhaps but it could be up towards Colmore Row maybe. Anyway, if that is Temple Row in...

I have only seen trams with controls at both ends in Brum so there was no need to turn the tram on a turnstile. The overhead power arm was reversed with the attached rope and the rope was tied down at the back of the tram (the former front). The driver would then operate the controls at the...

We never signal by hand here. If your window is not frozen shut, you could freeze your arm off or frostbite your ear in the winter. Yeah, being polite can get you into trouble. Have not seen a hand signal in donkeys years.