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The well pump in the picture post #444 is also shown in picture #452/2, outside the church gate...still remaining after the buildings were demolished.

That sketch is new #444. and I always thought that the Ring was an actual spectator ring...with a fence and people stands...sort of like a Spanish bull fight ring. But no! it was a simple iron ring set in the cobbles. Just in front of the church gates. Fantastic, well done.

Laura Dixon

Post #104, The painting is looking north at about Lower Mill Lane I think...where the cows are coming from. There is a Phylis Nicklin photo of this showing the building with the writing on the corner At least I believe this is right; have not looked at it for a while. The accompanying photo is...

No thankyou. Too hard to have a positive opinion about this one. I suppose the boys performed with bravery as always.

Brilliant post Dave...wish I could do that. I remember the rubber road too.

I remember #555 No 4. well and yes it is Martineau St. as Nick says. If you look along the line of windows on the left...at the top is Corporation St. and you can see the entrance to Cherry St. on the far side. The Dolcis shoe shop would be on the right hand corner of Cherry St. If you zoom in...

Gosh, I am so sorry to read this news. I never met him in person of course, but we exchanged words occasionally via. this media which he helped start I believe. Condolencies to his familly.

I don't know where Bowens garage was back then Jean I was refering to the corporation garage on Washwood Heath road. I think my soccer pal Micheal Stillgoe lived on Limetree road; just above where The Swan was. The road and houses are still there but the garage has now been replaced by a grocery...

I remember going to Blackpool on Bowens Coaches in the...late 40s/early 50s. They had side cab coaches back then with Dennis engines...mmm and they could move a bit. I think the name painted on the back of them was L.F. Bowen. I see that a Wally Stillgoe is mentioned and if this is the same...

Re: Some great men of Birmingham.. Dennis, you have put in a lot of work on this project and have not read it all yet but well done. Anyway on the very first posted story...maybe Aston was not considered to be part of Birmingham but surely Aston Furnace smelted iron and the pigs were hammered...

I thought that Henrietta St was the place also...but the arch is not a bridge but, as stated, the roof of New St. Station. I thought the building just below the dome of St. Phillips was Snow hill, at first, but not so. Dek Car got it first shot. Not so easy.

At the junction of Bristol Road and Oak Tree Lane. Picture from Wikipedia. Picture shows removal in 1909. Click on the link below for text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selly_Oak

Stitch's picture #18 is possibly the oldest I have seen. It seems to show an unpaved pathway between trees along where Colmore Row would be...if only it continued to the right a bit more we could have seen the streetscape. Never the less a wonderful view from a viewpoint not seen before. I...

Yeah, tramlines are challenging. Must be a reason for this. The Midland Institute photo is great. It shows the cabbies shelter in the road. Have seen this shelter before but at least I know what it is now. A new picture I think. That's James Watt standing in Ratcliffe Place. What a tradgedy that...

Well, great...I suppose we had the best of it...since we are past the best before date...well...we shall just have to keep on goin. Or like Rumpole's judge said when giving 10 years to the old guy in the dock and the fellon said "I'm too old judge...i'll never do it" the judge replying..."well...

#340. You would have to be desperate for the sight of a blade of grass to think that the vistage of that plain place was even a garden. Awfull comes to mind but perhaps a fitting monument considering.

#27, Looks a bit overloaded maybe. Interesting combination of pneumatic tyres on the front and cast spoke wheels and solid tyres on the back.

Yeah we always called them miskins. They mostly contained ashes from the fire I think...potato peelings...Not tea leaves. My dad had a small garden patch for these..for propogating worms..for fishing. No food was wasted in those days. The previous picture has, what I thought was a urinal in the...

It does not go up far enough to reach the floodgate. Heathmill lane is there so the mill would be in place and would have required the elevated water that the gate would have provided. Interestingly the Old Crown is shown extending much further back up Heathmill Lane than I have seen here before...