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I would imagine there was a standard B.E.T. (British Electric Traction) group shade of Green, used across the group's tramway companies. Whether or not restored vehicles like the 'Tividale' single deck tram at the Black Country Museum, or the beautifully restored Barnsley & District Leyland...

When I was an apprentice, I came to town on day release to the old. old Matthew Boulton college in Horsefair, and at lunchtime used Henrys restaurant. Not necessarily the best food available in the centre, but good size portions at very affordable prices.

But...the Corporation never ran horse buses, initially only electric trams joined later by motor buses taken over from the Midland Red company under the "1914 agreement", and others operating feeder services from Rednal and Rubery to the tram terminal at Selly Oak (and later at Northfield, then...

With the Corporation trams in 1904. The two companies running electric trams in the city (on lines leased from the Corporation) were red & cream, and green & cream. The City chose blue & cream to show they were not company trams. The standard livery for everything else (works dept, highways dept...

Birmingham? Really? I didn't recognise any of it from my personal experience, and I've lived in the city for most of my 75 years.

That IS the blackout lighting. Note in the lower picture of the earlier design some of the shields pointed towards the aisle, where the conductor could see his ticket machine. I don't think the newer style was taken up to any large degree.

This refers to the first baths, as attached photo. The 'new' Monument Road Baths were opened on the 27th June, 1940.

It may have been wishful thinking by the early planners of the estate, but by the early thirties when the most of the building was going on the city had decided on replacing the trams with buses, so it was never going to happen. The war delayed the replacements, but by 1953 the tram system had...

Not a Corporation bus, A Midland Red one! Possibly 4871 (871 KHA) in WMPTE blue & cream though. In the other photo, the ex- Birmingham prefab was the early stores building, now long gone (given to Avoncroft museum of buildings, Bromsgrove as spres for their one!) and the building in the distance...

DBHxxxB was issued August & September 1964, followed by EBHxxxB in October 1964. They were Buckinghamshire issues, and the county town is Aylesbury. (Luton is in Bedfordshire and issued "XD" registrations.)

Wagon turntable, too short & flimsy for engines. Horses we used for wagon shunting.

"Figures showed that passengers did not want to get off at Paradise Circus but wanted to go right into the city centre to New Street or Corporation Street"..... We don't get the option now with the pedestrianisation schemes. I can't walk far so I take the other option - haven't been to the...

The entire third floor has gone. Of course, the theatre was bombed out in 1941 and stood empty till demolition in 1987. Here it is after the raid:

This would be works car PW8, cut down from double decker 266. It was the last operable tram on the system, and the last to be taken away for scrap as it shunted the others into the scrap line at Kyotts Lake Road works. Here it is at Witton; and finally on the scrapman's lorry off to Stratford on...

Two responders who have saved me looking things up! Thanks guys!

The 1831 London Hackney Carriage Act made it an offence for drivers to feed their horse unless it was from a bag of corn or with hay from their hands. The law was repealed in 1976.

John Mead appears in the electoral registers at 7 Edward Road for 1912 and 1920, the latter also includes 'Elen Christina' who is presumably the little girl in the 1902 photo, but not in the 1901 or 1911 census's (censii?)

Admins - Can the 'non-bus' posts be moved to a more appropriate board please?

The first two are in front of the Snow Hill station hotel, some call it Colmore Row but in times past it was Steelhouse Lane as far as Livery Street then Colmore Row to Victoria Square. It was the terminus for Soho Road services (Handsworth, West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Dudley) and had been for...

The first two are in front of the Snow Hill station hotel, some call it Colmore Row but in times past it was Steelhouse Lane as far as Livery Street then Colmore Row to Victoria Square. It was the terminus for Soho Road services (Handsworth, West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Dudley) and had been for...