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In Peter Leather's 'A Guide to the Buildings of Birmingham', 2002, the Argent Centre, on the corner of Legge Lane and Frederick Street, stands on the site where Irving's sister and brother-in-law lived and was where Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle. Graham Street is on the other side of Frederick...

For more information on the 'The Ladies Association for the Care of Friendless Girls' see Peter Higginbotham's website: http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LA/ (Copyright restrictions apply - see http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/copyright/)

The site of the 1873 Post Office after demolition in 1974. (Photo by Chris Denny 15 July 1974. Image shared under this Creative Common's Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Hi, Vivienne, in your post you mention that the Paradise Street central post office was demolished in 1985. I have seen a photo on georgraph.org.uk that shows the demolished building and dates that photo, rather precisely, to 15 July 1974. But this early date has been questioned. Do you know...

Yes, GC Dean's had a shop at 94 High Street, which seems to correlate with the location of the GC Dean's sign.

The photo shows 'Lloyd's Farmhouse' in Sparkbrook: a Georgian mansion that survived the Priestley Riots. The mansion was built c1750 in 53 acre grounds by Sampson Lloyd II of the Lloyds ironmaking, banking and Quaker family. In 1765 Sampson Lloyd II (1699-1779), his son Sampson Lloyd III...

The bottom picture is labeled 'no popery riots': that's a reference to the 'Murphy riots' of 1867. The term 'Birmingham Riots' can be confusing as there has been a number of recorded riots in Birmingham's history.

Looking at the 1950 Ordnance Survey map, the house on the left is No.62 and the one on the right is No. 61

Thomas Dayson was the landlord of the Old Crown from 1853 to 1858. His name is clearly visible, over the right hand door, in higher resolution versions of this picture e.g. the version in John Whybrow's 'How does your Birmingham grow?' Keith Turner in his book 'Birmingham Pubs' used the presence...

Here's a summary of the history of the business, based on the John Mark's source identified by Bob Johnson in post 19 and John Whybrow's 'How does your Birmingham grow'? The company can trace its history to Thomas Lewis opening his first photographic studio in 1871. In 1894 Thomas Lewis moved...

The two photos you describe may be two photos that appear in John Whybrow's 'How Birmingham became a Great City' 1976. The older photo is dated c.1875. Apart from Christ Church other features of the photo include Corbett's Temperance Hotel on the right hand edge; Robert Peel's statue with a...

Post No.13. :) Moderator edit to delete post #13 as requested. Done. Viv.

The Burges is a street near the central of Coventry. GC Dean's tailor's shop was at No.11 and that was part of his estate in 1939. Other businesses will have occupied other addresses in the Burges that were not part of the GC Dean estate. Hope this helps.

AR Dean's building was on the north-east corner of the Corporation Street / Bull Street junction. It was purpose built for the company in 1885. At some point between 1910 and 1913 AR Deans vacated this building and Dunn & Co, hatters moved in. I understand the building was demolished in the...

Some information on GC Dean Tailors: GC Dean’s Tailors would have been a familiar sight for shoppers in Birmingham city centre, in the late 19th to early/mid 20th century. George Charles Dean began his tailoring business with a shop in Summer Lane in the early 1870s. He went on to develop one...

Bus number 2533 was a Guy 'Arab' III Special with a Gardner 6LW 8.4 litre engine and a Metro-Cammell body. It was one of a hundred Guy 'Arab' III Special's operated by Birmingham Corporation Transport. It entered service in the period July 1950 to May 1951 and, from the photo, appears to have...

That prompted me to do some more digging. The map could well be 1824/5. According to RK Dent, 'Making of Birmingham,' 1894, the Society of Arts purchased the Panorama building on New Street in 1822. This could be what is shown on the map. They then later commissioned a purpose built replacement...

Just on dating this excellent map. It shows the Society of Arts Building. According to Roy Thornton's 'Lost Buildings of Birmingham' that building was opened in 1829. So it would appear the map dates to no earlier than then.

I am trying to clarify the timeline and have looked at these sources: 1) Thomas Harman's 'Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham', 1885? 2) Samuel Lines landscape painting of Birmingham from the viewpoint of St Phillips Cathedra Dome, 1821 posted by Vivienne14 in post No.9 above 3) RK Dent's 'Old &...

Two points: :) 1) The previous central Post Office prior to the one opened in 1873 on the corner of Hill Street and Paradise Street was located in the building that was once Wilday's New Royal Hotel next door to the Theatre Royal. This was just across the road from the Bennett's Hill junction...