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What a dedicated piece of work speedwing and yes the maps are easy to compare. Gt. Bar St. is not in the first map but you can see the junction where it led to. There is no floodgate run off on the first map so that would have been a later requirement as was the triangular mill pool. I think in...

Mike's photo's seem to be about mid forties or so, or perhaps before and/or after WW2...St.H.Lane was like that for a long time and I do not know what to look for to date. The cars were mostly pre-war and would have also been around into the fifties. The bottom photo seems a bit older to me...

You could have parked our whole house in the hall. A lovely and substantial residence but you have got to like gardening...hmmm..cleaning and polishing. Or pay someone to do the same.

Jeesh, Jayell. You were rich. I started an apprenticeship one year after you and my wage was 10 shillings and sixpence per week. I suppose we were learning a trade and had a day at college each week but still. I year later we had a rise in pay...gosh...30 bob. Maybe you could have taken me to...

My old computer worked so slow that 90% of the time on it was waiting for stuff to happen. I have a new one now with Win7 and an SSD and zillions of ram and it runs at light speed. Trouble is that the page has changed and stuff moved and I have not been able to figure out how to post 1890 map...

OK, photo #844 is partly covered by spaghetti junction now. Look for the junction of Slade Road and Gravelly Hill. The pub on the left was The Erdington Arms and the lane behind the fence led to a gravel pit latterly Powick Road. Heck that view is mostly concrete now. The 1890 ref is a bit...

Oldmohawk's post #844 is a marvelous photo. Only the road entrances and old pub give a semblance of location and there is a place but nothing like this street scene now assuming the ID is right.

Can't see anyone on a roof. Where do you look?

That's a heck of a tall horse. I suppose that in those days a horse ride was still an often used mode of transport for the gentry and from there the country fields were not far away.

Indeed, the roundhouse would be a great place for related material and perhaps horses were sheltered there at the end of a haul.

Yeah, I was looking the wrong way. You might have a hard time realising that the 'through entries' on the left led to rows of back to backs in courts behind. A whole world on it's own behind this frontage. My folk had it tough.

There was about 3500 miles of canals in the UK mostly linked and using rivers, where deep enough, you can still cross the country to the North Sea. It's been a while since I looked at this but seem to remember that there is still about 3000 miles of navigable waterway remaining. Largely used for...

You could be right Astoness but I thought that the bus looked a bit later than that. The later date would have given the area time to have developed even more decrepitude since from what I recall little if anything was done in upkeep.

The homework saved you. Just think...you might have ended up in some menial unionised job and just made more money.

I would guess that the road off to the left is Attenborough Close and the immediate right is Bridge St West. 50s/60s although you would not think so. I was just looking on GE and the Summer Lane Street frontage of the court where I was born is now a Marshal Arts Emporium. I don't think the...

Speedwing, I have not thought about downstream from Heathmill much beyond Duddeston Mill and Saltley mill, of which there is a photo. The text that you refer to reminds me that some mills are made by just damming the river/stream and the differential in heads produced between upstream and...

The relationship between Floodgate Street and the Rea is very ancient I believe. Floodgate runs beside the Rea now, as seen above, from Deritend bridge as far as Little Ann Street where it passes under the road. This has been the way of it for a couple of hundred years I think and is mostly the...

Yeah, something has occurred there. Passengers were not allowed in the drivers section and the sliding door was always closed behind him. An accident might have happened and the police not arrived yet. Hard to say. Is that a blood patch by the exit of the nearside tram.

Actually, if you can use Google Earth, that area is in 3D and you can see the modern version of the above view. Junction House by the bridge and the bridge are still there and a part or two of the factory building. There is a bit more between the church and the viewpoint now but a path shown on...

Yeah, great cricket bats that made the ones we used look like relics of the G W Grace era. Fly rods that announced a whole different mode of fishing..for some anyway...with no maggots. Hmm...tapered fly lines and flys in a plastic divided box'. I suppose Rackhams was on the right but in my day...