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Thank you, Mikejee. Which map have you used above?

Could someone please tell me what the Warwick Road (running from Birmingham out through to Solihull and beyond into Warwickshire countryside) was called before it became known as the Warwick Road? I have been searching to find the name of the road (in the last couple of centuries or so) going...

Don't worry, Steve. I can read Mitchells & Butlers so know what it is... Thanks for doing this.

This is fascinating. The first thing to strike me was all of the brown paper parcels tied up with string. No coloured carrier bags.

I know Church Street but how I never found Bread Street, I haven't a clue. Thank you, mikejee for finding this.

I have just Googled Ann Street and found this site which seems rather interesting: https://mappingbirmingham.blogspot.com I'm sure you must know about it already but it's a site listing lost Birmingham.

Lyn: Yes, thank you. I would love to see one if there is one available. Many thanks

Thank you very much Lyn. I can understand that Bread Street didn't sound as inspiring (perhaps) as Cornwall Street but it can make life difficult when trying to trace back the streets in a town. Thank you, Denise

Yes, it is. I have just found a photo on this website dated 2005 which is a painting, I think, of the corner of Bread St and Church St. Thank you. I have just e-mailed the genealogy site to tell them that it should be Bread St.

I am doing my usual research for family history and have come across an entry on a genealogy site for "BREAT" Street which i think is a mistranscription by one of the transcribers of the original records. I then Googled the question where is Breat Street in Birmingham and the answer was for...

Yes, the link between St Bernard's Road and Olton End Mill sounds right.

Thank you, Pedrocut. I have one of the postcard photos (heaven knows where I bought it from but it was years ago) of the Load (that's how it was spelt) Heath Mill. From the information I found when I searched about the mill on Lode Lane (Solihull library years and years ago - before computers...

Jukebox, I have come to the national archives website: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Olton+Mill&_sd=&_ed=&_hb= where there are references to mills in Solihull and Olton (see Pedrocut's post above).

Thank you so much, Jukebox, for that. I have always puzzled over the Olton Mill and the Lode Heath Pleck which I believe was somewhere around Lode Lane. As far as I can see from sketch map provided on the page that the mill would be opposite the Mill Pool and garage now on Lode Lane.

Thanks, Lyn:sun:

You're very welcome, Lyn. Thanks for your interest.

Thank you for your prompt reply. I have a photo (the windmill building is in better shape but it doesn't have sails) but there is no date on it.

Mikejee: The photo of Olton Mill submitted by MBenne on 2nd September 2019 was posted a long time ago, I know. Do you have a date when that photo was taken, please? Hannah and John Morton lived there in the early to mid 1800s.

An excellent map. Thank you.

MBenne: do you have a date when this photo was taken?