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A detailed history of the line and where it's currently at:

Anyone interested in Villa's history will know that Howard Spencer was one of the club's greatest servants as a player, the first to captain England, and director. He is buried at Little Aston church. The company would have been prominently located at Salford Bridge Wharf where the Birmingham &...

Although the Engine Arm is nothing to write home about, the area adjacent to the aqueduct along Smethwick Locks has benches and is quite a pleasant spot for a picnic.

Here's a pic of Tom o' the Wood taken from the Grand Union near Kingswood Junction

Having walked the entire BCN and Grand Union I can safely say that the Walsall Canal where this clean-up is taking place is the most rubbish strewn on the system. Why people think it's acceptable to dump tyres, kitchen cabinets, fridges, wheelie bins, pallets, traffic cones and, of course...

Here's a pic of William Littlewood from the 1911-12 team photo.

45ft from the 453ft Birmingham Level to the 408ft Walsall Level

Front and back covers of the match programme ...

This is a pic of Old Oak Common I took from the Grand Union last summer. The Elizabeth Line trains are lined up to the right but out of shot, if you look at Google maps they are visible.

Just to provide some balance to all this HS2 propaganda, here the same company is destroying a line of oak trees in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Can't have been the Arts Lab which was originally in a fairly grotty part of Newtown and then moved to Gosta Green.

The programme cover and list of films from the Arts Lab in 1979.

Richard Vinen was a guest on Start The Week (Radio 4) this morning contributing to a programme devoted to Birmingham. It's a good listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001byjc

I've noticed that having done their best to ignore the city since the demise of Pebble Mill, the BBC have shown a little more interest in the city recently i.e. the Back In Time series and there was a repeat of 'Birmingham Irish I Am' last night on BBC Four. Is this due to the publicity...

Are the HS2 propagandists who produce these films also celebrating HS2's destruction of or threat to 693 Classified Local Wildlife Sites, 33 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, 108 Ancient Woods and 18 Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves?

In the words of the great Brummie Tony Hancock from 'The Blood Donor', my DNA test only confirmed that I was 'Anglo Saxon with perhaps a dash of Viking'. I only took it for fun but I was disappointed there were no other exotic connections.

I learnt today that this is called 'bidialectalism' i.e. using a different dialect depending on the context in which you find yourself.

What a admirable project, when I first saw this memorial I couldn't quite believe the number of casualties from Aston and the third soldier on your list epitomizes the senselessness of wars that are mostly the result of politicians' egos and their reckless ambitions: Percy Alcock, died on the...

Sid Field

I'm confused by those directions. Coming from town, by the time the 42 reached St. Mary's College (a seminary rather than a monastery) it would have already passed the Crossways pub. After WMPTE extended the route from the top of Collage Road to Six Ways, the bus turned right onto the Chester...