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If yoy blow up the picture and look at the background there's what appears to be a semi-detached house on a cliff top on the far left. That couldn't be Brum. In late 1933 Dover Corporation purchased two complete trams from Brum for £190 each and two spare bodies for £60 each. Another four were...

Seeing that last picture prompts me put on this photo of some models I made and showed at Manchester in December 1952. Peter

I don't think we realise how important horses were to human beings. They were really man's best friend. Before the Industrial Revolution (and we know where that started), if you weren't strong enough to do a job, you'ld get a horse to do it. And they did - anything from delivering milk to...

Perhaps the tin chapel on the right of the last picture would help to identify the location. On the decade the pics were taken, I think it might be early 30s. My mum wore hats like that until the mid-30s, from what I remember of the family photos. Lovely to see anyway - thanks for putting them...

Frothy, I rather think things have changed since your pic - the last time I was there, before Christmas, I thought the whole of the Digbeth Garage buildings had been razed to the ground. The 1930s picture is certainly a cracker - taken before Midland Red gottheir hands on any of the buildings...

I've just looked at the 1883 Kelly's Directory and find no Pinfold Road listed, but there is an entry: Pinfold Buildings, Yardley Road, Acocks Green. The usual house-by-house listing is not given for the outer suburbs like Acocks Green, and there are only a residential list covering freeholders...

That picture of the Queen's Hotel, front of New Street Station, really has me thinking. The sign says 'Central Railway Station', a name which I thought was not used after a separate station was built to the south for the Midland Railway in the early 1880s. On the other hand, you can see some...

No wonder the papers are starting to drop like flies! Apparently there'll be none left in a year or two, as the internet takes over. Not that they've been much cop in the last few years anyway. What we shall always have is Ron 'Smudge' Smith's wonderful books and drawings of Hockley. They are a...

Lloyd, Can I be just a bit pedantic and say I don't agree that people don't need pubs any more. Traditionally pubs were a bit like churches and chapels, giving people the opportunity to meet and join in their enjoyment of the good things in life - definitely an important asset to the...

After hours of suspense I cheated and looked in the 1890 Kellys for a Hawley at No 9 . . . no joy, but the 1892 edition gave the answer. Moat Row, opposite the main facade of Smithfield market. The Birmingham Arms, on the corner of Bradford Street, would be just off the picture on the left. The...

Nice one, Mo. I've only just seen it, but thought straight away it was somewhere on the wrong (south) side of Brum. There's quite a bit of detail in the picture - interesting. Thanks. Peter

Never seen those pics before, I think. Thanks a lot, Mike Peter

It's a pity I left home almost 50 years ago now, after my mum died and my dad remarried. We had a lot of photos of Loxton Street and other things, which I never saw again, as I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, and had no souvenirs, other than from my grandmother, who outlived my dad...

I didn't go to Loxton Street as a kid, but my dad taught there, from 1933 until about 1956 (less 4 years in the RAF), and I remember many of the other teachers. Sam Hartshorne was the headmaster after Len Griffiths retired in about 1942. He was quiter a character, and used to write grown-up...

I'm afraid I can only give a lukewarm comment on your activities, because I used to work with people who were actually paid to survey derelict buildings and try to find a future use for them. Sadly our society has changed, and in the case of industrial buildings, nobody could sell, let alone...

Sian, be warned, there were 3 CoE churches in Birmingham, St Mark, North side of King Edward St, corner St Mark's St, 1841 St Mark, Washwood Heath Rd nr Leigh Rd Washwood Heath, 1890 St Mark, corner of Bleak Hill & Hesketh Crescent, Erdington, 1930s And I believe an RC church in Bandywood Rd...

Lovely picture. Natty wellies, too. Peter

Until now this thread has been very popular and has given pleasure to many people (myself certainly included). Please, please don't spoil it by silly scrapping. Years ago we would get our ears boxed for that doing sort of thing, but now we're all conditioned by political correctness, and just...

I'm afraid you may be disappointed by the following entries in the Kelly's directories:. Kelly's 1921: 43 Suffolk St (corner Severn Street) - Wheatsheaf P.H:William Auger. Kelly's 1933: 43 Suffolk St (corner Severn Street) - Wheatsheaf P.H:Mrs Phoebe Ellen Crockett. Kelly's 1937: 43 Suffolk St...

PS - I see there is another thread on the same subject, with the same pic I found. - try searching Grapes, Hill Street. Peter