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D J Smiths book is an interesting and valuable account of New Street, or Grand Central as it was first known, the construction was made possible by the London & Birmingham Railway Act of 7th August 1846.

Yes the tracks were added much later as a feature and have lead some trip boat commentators to make the wrong assumption that they had an industrial role. The tracks on the towpath at Dockers Brothers had a real purpose however

They became part of the Horseley company at Tipton in further mergers which itself was merged and closed

Here is another advert of interest for the Heath Mill in Lower Fazeley Street from a directory of 1841 Regarding directories I have examined them across the country and their entry varied for region

The loss of the royal warrant by Cadbury's should bring alarm bells ringing out to our politicians who allow the sale of British company products The same could apply to HP sauce, made in Birmingham at Aston. That sauce used local water and moving production abroad changed the product It was a...

This is an advert that deserves comment From an 1841 Directory

The factory shopping they had built on the Canal Side of Gas Street were the subject of a redevelopment plan for student accommodation which may be still ongoing has anybody heard of the decision?

The aspect of using the flint lock (1) and percussion cap lock (2) were once common in the sporting gun capacity Did their use last longer than those used in conflict

It was under the Library complex and had access to Paradise Circus. There were bus stops on the Dudley Road side which were close to the underground station. I seem to recall that the Library used part of the area for storage. The site was redeveloped with the Paradise Forum project

The present New Street station is one that is served by different train operators. At present the franchises are Avanti West Coat Cross Country Transport for Wales West Midland Trains & London Northwestern Charter trains might also pass through but at present there are no open access operators...

Snow Hill was initially the junction between the Birmingham Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway and the Birmingham & Oxfords Junction Railway although both became part of the GWR mixed gauge route as construction proceeded to make the first Snow Hill station The original LNWR station at New Street...

The last tunnel boring machines for HS2 have been named and these will work on the extension from Old Oak Common to Euston They are Karen and Madeleine The tunnel will be 4.5 km long

In the years 1845 and 1846 when large number of railways were proposed several canal companies considered converting their waterways into railways. Had that happened our waterway network of today would have been the poorer. The Worcester & Birmingham Railway had a scheme which was later modified...

As work proceeds HS 2 there is still the lack of recognition in these modern times that there were two stations at Curzon Street; the London & Birmingham Station and the Grand Junction Station. Whilst traffic was exchanged at Curzon Street between the two railway companies they had their own...

There are various threads 1st the early history that led to the creation of the station and its first name Grand Central 2nd the original station 3rd the building of the Midland Railway station and joint ownership until 1923 4th the LMS Station and BR station until reconstruction 5th...

There was a term called battledore, could this be a version of the paddle

Before guns and rifles had the technology to fire bullets, there was the long period of use of what was called the gun lock These started with the flint lock, went through the percussion lock era and there were also various types of safety locks Birmingham and South Staffordshire were involved...

Re Farmers Bridge I have a date which I need to look up in my notes, but it was the original Tindal Bridge that replaced it. That Tindal Bridge with metal support was part of a program of improving bridges for increased street traffic. The present Tindal Bridge is concrete. On a related subject...

Is the Wednesbury sculpture now covered in vegitation ?

The sail is somewhat inconsistent with the canal, although narrow boats did have sails for certain navigations such as the Severn Thomas Monk was a boat builder at Tipton and there were other members of the Monk family who had other boat yards The Fellows began carrying with James Fellow...