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Report of the enquiry into the incident (PDF, at 7% of original size. Enlarge to 150% to read) https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Nuneaton1975.pdf Film of rescue, recovery and rebuilding

Thanks, mikejee. I stand corrected. The road on the left may be Reservoir Road, as the railway bridge can be seen in the distance. But where is Summer Road?

Surely not 'Six' ways until Sutton New Road was built?

Barges on the canals replaced packhorses and later wagons (which could carry more) on the roads. Railways replaced them for the same reasons, and later still lorries on tarmac roads did the same. Aircraft can now carry loads further and faster still. What comes next, in the future?

There was a 'pig bin collection' every afternoon from my school, taking the food waste (presumably to feed pigs). Not corporation, it must have been a private firm - or possibly the farmer - who used an old airport bus with the inside stripped out to collect the metal dustbins. SME 528, one of...

Royal West Kent? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SFcAAOSwujhmebV4/s-l1600.webp (The word under the horse is "Invicta".)

West Bromwich. Benjamin Crowther (1844-1909) was an undertaker and general 'job master' (horse renter) and contracted to run the last horse tram service in the district for the South Staffs Tramway Company (who supplied the tramcar to him), as they felt the route (to Spon Lane) didn't warrant...

Was going to say the very same thing!

Battery electric dustcarts - not for clean air but because they were charged up by plant burning the rubbish as fuel. No petrol cost!

Yep, did a fair bit of that.

Correct, although it's Pebble Mill Road.

One of several. Yards adjacent to Lea Hall and Washwood Heath (see pic) were also used as disposal areas.

That could have been an absolute disaster, worse if it had been a passenger train.

Yes stink or stench pipes are for sewer ventelation, either to let gases out or air in to prevent syphoning. They are tall to distance the smell from pedestrians, and also to allow for floods not to spill out from them. Some even have gas lamps to burn off flamable gasas - there used to be a...

I was hoping there was some detail in the 1939 register, but not of workplaces, sorry.

What was his name?

A number of the factories' architecture shows their ancestry as schools, churches or chapels.

Hagley Road station 24 Nov 1934, its final day, from the opposite direction showing Hagley Road Bridge. The house far right, 331 Hagley Road, was the home of the Midland Red's chief engineer, Loftus George Wyndham Shire, for about 40 years from c1920.

Before 1974 Birmingham was IN Warwickshire.

Here we go. "To reduce cost". It'll end up being just a bus shelter on the platform, same as many 'modernised' stations.