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Just guessing, but does the name Hydraulic cone from the lifts in the old GWR goods yard, which I remember lifted and / or dropped loaded goods wagons between levels? Otherwise, perhaps it was after some equipment in Scribban's Bakery, but that doesn't seem likely to me. Peter

A nice picture, but its a pity that the backsides of the Midland Red buses had been interfered with, so to speak, in the early 50s. I thought all the FEDDs lost so much of their character when the bodies were messed about, but I'm sure some patching up and strengthening was necessary, As for the...

I've just been looking through a few old maps and directories to see if I can throw any light on your problem, and have only come up with a load more fog to confuse us. I never realised that the wards which were set up under the Borough Charter of 1838 did not match the parishes. St Philip's...

Your two old cars weren't registered very far away. RW was used by the Coventry Registration office, and UE by the Warwick County office (presumably at Warwick?). As a kid I knew a lot of the letters by heart, but have forgotten most of them now - it's a thing of the past anyway. Peter

It's Hill Street, looking from a few yards down from Navigation Street, towards Station Street. What gave it away to me was the tram waiting shelter which covered the width of the pavement there. New Street station is off the picture on the left. Below is another pic taken just after the war...

My apologies to Stitch for not reading the posts carefully enough. And thanks to Mike for correcting me - no need to apologise of course., but thank you Peter

Stitch, your last pic would have been taken before October 1950, when the Washwood Heath and Alum Rock trams were replaced. If there were any trams on the Perry Barr or Witton routes (which there aren't) it would have been in the 40s (the last trams on those routes ran on 31.12.1949). As for the...

Ziksby, I can honestly say I've been there and done that, but a lot later than your dates. I went in to the ENT on Thursday 29 July 1939 and had the tonsils job done next morning. but wasn't collected until Monday 3 July. Thanks to my late Nanny Walker who recorded all these things in her diary...

Sorry to be difficult, Stitch, but I think the picture was a bit later than the early 50s. I left Brum in March 1959, after working in the city council office which dealt with things like new statues for over three years, and have no recollection of that sculpture. Nelson's statue yes, the other...

Lovely pics, Exxie. Thanks very much. Peter

Frothy, that must be a record - YOU GOT IT IN THREE MINUTES. Good on yer mate. Peter

And here are two maps I have since produced, one taken from Pye's\ map of 1795 and the other from John Kempson in 1810. I'm working on John Pigott Smith's detailed map of 1824-5, which is a stinker to do, because of distortion of the different sections. Peter

For those who haven't seen them before, here are miniature copies of the maps I drew which were available at the 60s night bash. They are (1 and 2) Birmingham in 1553, based on a Victorian reconstruction from a detailed written survey, and (3 and 4) Birmingham in 1778, based on maps by Hanson...

It's now almost 50 years ago since I met a German girl working in the house I was lodging at in London, and nearly 49 years since we married and lived happily ever after. It seems to me that the fact that we came from different countries has actually given us a stronger bond than if we had come...

I think that pic has been posted a few months ago - it would be a little after the Witton 3X tram route was replaced by the 39 bus (31 December 1949) but some time before the Erdington trams (last in the city) went in July 1953, because other pictures shown Ansells brewery with a big advert (The...

For some odd reason, I've only just found this thread, although I try to go through the new stuff at least once a day. As so often happens, I couldn't help think what a marvellous amount of good information has been posted, and I feel a lot wiser for it. I enjoyed the result of different people...

Only just seen this last picture, which brought quite a lump in my throat because I designed that subway - not the concrete carcase which was of course part of the Inner Ring Road structure done by the City Engineer's Department. The City Architect's Department had been formed in the early 1950s...

Phil, yes brilliant pics, but the last one is a bit terrible for the 1930s. Thanks all the same Lyn, Phil's photo is of the north side of Inge Street, with Hurst St leading uo to Hill Street. The remaining back-to-backs are on the opposite side of Inge Street, but they look very similar indeed...

Lyn, here's a pic I downloaded a few months ago. Glad to say I can't remember ever seeing it painted in those colours, certainly not with CCTV camera over the door. What next!? Happy New Year - what's left of it. Peter

Being a northern Brummie I can answer that easily - the Pavilion, Wylde Green, corner of Gravelly Lane and Chester Road, just outside the City in my day. Checking up in the Cleggs' lovely history of Brum Cinemas, I see that it was designed by Harold Seymour Scott,and opened on 10 October 1931, a...