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Edit. the following 5 posts were copied to this thread from the "Address plaques ..... " thread as this street is of significant historical interest. Maybe a new contender for the oldest plaque so far. Set back from the busy Lee Bank Middleway is Lee Crescent, with an almost surreal "Cathedral...

Brighton Road, Balsall Heath 37 Brighton Road, Victoria Place, 1870 61 Brighton Road, Clifford House 62-63 Brighton Road Shepperton Villas

Runcorn Road - Metal plaques On the O/S map of 1888/89, Runcorn Road in Balsall Heath is shown as an open plot of land surrounded by other housing, no doubt earmarked for building shortly afterwards. The builder filled the road with houses of uniform design and also the little Terraces of houses...

Yardley Green Road A cluster of plaques on Yardley Green Road near the "Clock" community centre (the old Sampson Pub?). 20-22 Yardley Green Road, Landesborough Place, 1884 30-32 Yardley Green Road, Richmond Place. It has a date underneath but it's illegible 18.-- 52 Yardley Green Road, G.H.T...

I see that someone has started producing Anderson shelters again - for Ukraine.

There was a thread on the White Heart in the Horse Fair - The entrance does not look the same, even in old photos. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/scarlets-horse-fair-formerly-white-lion.35872/

On the corner of Anderton Road and Fallows Road is this great survival. 149 Anderton Road (145 Fallows Road), Anderton Road Telegraph & Postoffice, 1895 The business currently occupying the building gives its address as 145 Fallows Road.

Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook, - Metal plaques! The 1888/89 OS map shows Gladstone Road to be partly built, with buildings along the East side of the road complete but a big gap in the middle of the building on the West side. So construction was probably ongoing when the OS map was drawn up which...

Last Survivor... The nearby Wilton Road is shown as being half-built on the 1888/89 OS map, with the eastern end built but the western end still being open ground. Taking a virtual stroll down the road you can see that many of the houses once had plaques but they have been removed - Only one...

Exactly Viv. A plaque above an entryway can be the name of the yard or terrace of houses behind the houses facing the street, but it can also be the name of those houses facing the street if the entry just leads to the gardens at the back. Most houses needed a way for coal to be delivered to the...

I was wrong. I found a later map showing the outline of the alleyways. The covered entrances only lead to the back of the gardens of the houses facing the street, so Inglewood Place, Frederick Place, Herbert Place and Oakfield Place refer to the blocks of 8 houses facing the street (the 4 red...

Ombersley Road - filling in the "gap". While Google Streetview does not cover a portion of Ombersley Road, The Bing Maps equivalent does, albeit at much lower resolution. The resolution is too low to read the majority of plaques on the north side of the street, except for two that have the...

OMBERSLEY ROAD. Is this the most "plaqued"road in Birmingham? The 1888/89 O/S map shows it as a long strip of open land, obviously already earmarked for building. So presumably the buildings went up very shortly afterwards. Many of the houses retain their plaques. Unfortunately, there is a gap...

Again, the 1888/1889 O/S map shows Kingsley Road and one end of Oldfield Road to be open space (the "Pickwick Cricket Grounds"), So these roads would have been built a few years after. - Interestingly the east end of Oldbury Road was called Henry Street on the 1888 / 1889 map. As a case of...

The 1888/1889 O/S map shows the East side of Ladypool Road being fields between Alfred Street and Birchwood Road. So all of these buildings would have been built after this date. None of the buildings on the other side of the road have plaques. Ladypool Road 224 Ladypool Road, Brighton Place...

Thanks Ian. - In fact it was the redoubtable Kevan Darby that put us right about our Grandad's war record. He didn't talk at all about his time during WW1 and the assumption in the family was that he had been captured at Gallipoli. After he was featured in the Black Country Bugle about his time...

It was a good lecture last night - Thanks Ian. It was interesting to hear that the 9th Warwicks served with the ANZAC forces at Anzac Cove. - After the war my Grandad (Walter Gilbert, Service number 22906) was sent out to Australia by the Parkinson Stove company to help set up a new factory at...

Another interesting survival. As you come out of the city down the Alcester Road, as you pass the boundary between Balsall Heath and Moseley you might have noticed an imposing terrace of large houses on the left (east) side of the road that would not look out of place in Bath or London's...

And at the risk of straying slightly off topic (I promise I'll go no further!);) In the nearby Park Hill (called Park Hill Road in the 1889 O/S map) was a house called "The Lions" (on the very edge of the map) - It has now been renamed "The Grange" - But guess what - It has a magnificent pair...

An interesting survival is in the nearby Park Road. One of the houses on the 1889 O/S map is listed as "Perciville" on the map has a stone plaque on it with the name "Percy Villa". Edit: Added Address for lookup 9 Park Road, "Perciville".