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Henry Pooley & Son was famous for having a virtual monopoly of making weighing machines for railway goods yards etc. Many still in existance especially in preserved railways. Head office moved to 72 John Bright Street. Company was absorbed by Avery's in 1913 but continued to trade as a separate...

My apologies. My mistake. My wife's relative was Jane WILDEN not Walden. Also the settlement took over 316/318/320 and not 216 & 218 as I said.

Might be of interest...........just a slight chance that your Walden's are related to Jane Walden mentioned below. My wife's great, great grandfather was Joseph Stevens. Joseph was a hinge manufacturer with a factory in Hanley Street. He married Jane Walden in 1841. Joseph died in 1887. At the...

Bit remote from the original thread but......... My wife's great-grand aunt's father was William Shelton Terry who was a publican at 26 Bishop Street in 1881[PH on map?]. On the corner of Moseley Street was a Methodist Chapel - perhaps where the foundation stone mentioned by Robert in 8 above...

Street furniture [well almost!]: A few years ago O2 installed this mini phone mast and associated cabinets on the pavement in our road. Never mind that it is in a conservation area [phot 1]. O2 are now applying for planning permission to erect a 20 metre high mast in the public car park in...

According to BCC website planning permission has not yet been decided on. Let's not forget that this occupant has built a garage, installed block paving, ugly gates etc etc ALL ILLEGALLY. This is the real issue not the location or otherwise of the post box. Occupant shows utter contempt for...

One of the best TV programmes we ever watched was the original "All creatures great and small". Loved the programme and recognized many of the scenes from numerous Yorkshire Dales holidays. Particularly memorable was the scene in the round cow shed - been in it when we stayed on the farm...

Yes, almost next door to Prince of Wales. A specialist antiquarian bookshop, probably why he didn't like the looks of me - a poverty struck ex student! Lowe Brothers was one of the oldest of Birmingham's antiquarian bookshops. Originally in Newhall Street [well it was in 1910!] Here's a...

How strange. I had an almost identical experience at the Lowe Brothers secondhand book shop which was in Moseley. This would be about 1968 - went in to look around and saw some books by Boswell in a locked case. asked if I could look at them & was told rudely they were too expensive [for me] and...

UPDATE: Planning application for Moseley Station and associated works was approved today. No traffic lights; it's going to be a roundel, which is similar in appearance to a roundabout so the planners say. I'm not sure but I think a traffic roundel is just road markings. Having crossed the...

I think it is very easy to condemn the 11+ with the benefit of hindsight and 70+ years of gradual progress. But let us not forget what it was like before the 1944 Education Act and its implementation. The act gave everyone the chance to go to grammar school or the new technical or commercial...

I think the King Edward exam must have changed. No music questions in 1986 or 1989 when my two children passed. What a can of worms mention of the 11+ opens! I was born in a rough, poverty struck part of Liverpool: Toxteth. I passed the 11+ and frankly going to the best grammar school in...

What an interesting post. Had a walk around our road [Moseley] to check local signs out using info in attachment: 1. Cast iron signs without post code may be victorian - sadly none in our area. 2. Cast iron signs attached to cast iron pedestal with post code are original and early. This one is...

Just a few observations from a retired [Birmingham] librarian: 1. The new building: attrocious. too small, lots of wasted space, poorly guided and few staff to help. Local Studies & Archives in particular inadequate in space & staffing. Try using a run of Kellys directories - can't use in situ...

If Harborne Library wasn't closed to the public because of Covid 19................................ I was going to suggest that anyone interested in old photographs of Harborne visit Harborne Library as they have several hundred photographs of Harborne - much better collection than the Central...

My three children all attended Moseley Church of England School. It was a very good school. After the new school was opened on Oxford Rd, the old school became a "community centre" known as Centre 13 & run by St Marys Church. It was a hive of activity from uniformed organisations, lunch clubs...

The Moseley Society, I think, would love to receive the programme. They have a very active local history group with a growing collection of items on Moseley. I am a member. Hon Sec can be contacted at Fiona Adams 36 Grove Avenue Moseley Birmingham B13 9RY

Visited the Midland Air Museum many years ago & actually sat in their Vulcan. Lot smaller than I imagined but wow, did it have character. I believe it's still there.

This brings back memories! I worked at Harborne Library many years ago and was looking for a centre piece for our heritage exhibition. One night we parked up in War Lane [Harborne] and stole a pot from the wall. We mounted it on a plinth in the centre of the exhibition and asked visitors to tell...

The lych gate at St Agnes Church, Moseley was badly damaged last August during police pursuit. Repairs just completed on Friday. Phots attached of before, after damage & after repair. Great to see real craftsmen at work. A little bit of our heritage saved.