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The Avery sports grounds had been earmarked for housing as long as I can remember. The first edition of the Birmingham A-Z showed dotted lines for roads and I think I had seen that on earlier maps. Gaps for these roads were left in the City Road houses.

You probably remember these Coventry Corporation buses.

I think the ground floor space is used for storage. the upper floors were of course part of the 1960s Bull Ring and I thin the former Debenhams store is above it.

Last week I had occasion to change from the Metro to the railway so I thought I could go to St Chads stop on the Metro and use the new entrance to the station. When I got out of the lift at street level I looked for the new entrance and it was not there. I had to walk round under the viaduct in...

This accident is not recorded in the Railway Archive. An accident is recorded on 3rd February 1878 on the Snow Hill Incline in London between a Metropolitan Railway train and a Midland Railway train with a rear collision and derailment with 2 injuries and no fatalities. The Snow Hill Tunnel in...

As one of the oldest companies in Birmingham, I think you can assume that they made nearly every that they could in metal over the years.

Yes English bus passes are available for use on cross border journeys into Wales but I have heard some reports that they are not working in reverse.

Actually many longer distance routes are being split. I have read reports of former routes being split but still being operated by the same vehicle and driver. I was told by someone living in Merseyside that he used to get a bus from Chester to Barmouth on his bus pass but now the route is split...

Some years ago the Isle of Man government contemplated making bus travel free but nothing came of that.

English Concessionary Travel Passes are accepted on bus services all over England. Start times are determined locally. Trains and trams depend on local regulations. For example my West Midlands pass is accepted on trams in Sheffield but not Nottingham or Manchester. Only West Midlands passes are...

Didn't he teach French?

The letters T and D are very close together and if you study languages you will often find that the same word can have a D in one language and a T in another. Americans talk about Tidbits whereas we say Titbits.

WMPTE/Travel West Midlands rationalised the BCT and Midland Red garages that they took over. The 'out of area' bus routes that used to operate out of Sutton were taken over by Midland Red North who operated them from the ex Midland Red garages in their operating area.

It does look curved so it could be.

I think there is something in front of Presswork as the word is not central. Could be EX.

Remember that in those days all prices were calculated using mental arithmetic. The weight in lbs and oz times the price per pound in shillings and pence. Scales like these, and not all shops had them, helped the calculation of ounces by the price per lb but if the weight was over 1 lb you still...

I am speaking entirely from memory but I am sure that in one book on the history of Harborne, I read that the local landowner married in turn three sisters.

Interesting but this is not the Alfred Preedy & Sons Ltd that we knew as it appears the company names have been swopped round over the years as this company has had the Preedy name only since 1989. Way back in the 1970s when I was actively involved with trading on the Stock Exchange, I held some...

Driver of HA1118 must have misunderstood the sign ALL CARS STOP HERE.

The cutting from the Harborne Railway to the M&B brewery has been filled in so is difficult to see from the footpath that runs along the trackbed of the Harborne Railway. However the City Road Bridge can still be seen.