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so after the pupils we have the teachers, again from St. Pauls School and again a lack of further information. Another interesting shot all dressed smartly and of a certain age.

Thanks for your kind words. We start tonight with a couple of class photos, first we have a class of children from St. Pauls School, sorry for the washed out nature of the picture I am afraid no further information than that, shown for the variety of clothes that wee worn.

and finally old house !!, a selection of terraced house of all shapes and sizes , interesting layout of the nearest ones - central passage , door but no windows on the floors above and then three floors of windows. Shop with a bay window further down the street, a few two storey terraces, back...

Roll 16 is another short roll only two picture one is poor but interesting the second is okay but both have no description. All I have on this one is Mr. Harrison outside his shop aged 10. very poor picture but interesting as I presume this was how poultry was sold back in the day -...

Second sheet is not as tidy as the postcards have been cropped We have Exeter Place 1965, Ashted Place, Yates Wine Lodge 1951 and Corporation Street 1951

Roll 15 is just as bad 10 picture of the same child, there are two sheets with the previously mentioned postcards on so I will post those so you can confirm if you have seen them before - I was presuming you had as I have seen them !! First sheet has Rackhams 1954, Galloways Corner 1950...

As I said not much on this Roll - the other photo I referred to had no information so as usual over to you and I will update the information if you are successful. So we have the demolition of something, somewhere, couple if diggers, few skips and and a building covered in the corrugated...

Moving onto Roll 14 and another roll with hardly any new images, lots of postcards which I have seen so I am sure you have - multiple picture of the same image ( badly done) and one image which I have no details of!! First we have The Bulls Head in Bishopgate Street, very ornate stonework...

Finally last picture on this roll and we had simpler times, these are the very ornate stamp machines outside the Central Post Office standing on Victoria Square, it has many styles - urns , triangular roof - I know that style has a name !, Boxed gable roof - thanks Donbogen column legs and...

We now move to the right and an unsympathetic view of the Council House with the roads along the front and curling round, fences to keep the public from crossing over the road and a traffic light . We can also see the changes that have happened on the right, with the old Lloyds Bank, and the...

Moving to the front of the Town Hall and this another of the then and now type pictures, the Town Hall looking rather grimy , with two lanes of traffic outside - pedestrian crossings everywhere - car was king back then , and a sixties office building background - compare that to today with...

Next we have the Chamberlain memorial built to commemorate the great man. One of the advantages of all the changes at this end of town is the refurbishment of this memorial and the other ones around it. There are a few more high rise buildings in the background and you cannot say that the new...

Having walked underneath the Library we come to this view - if we do not turn around then nothing has changed much although a lot cleaner these days, this is Chamberlain Square to the rear of the Town Hall and the fountain, much loved for the ability to fill it with foam by students. We can just...

One for Donbogen, a close up of the Shakespeare, large arched windows on the ground floor, turret like windows on the corner and two floors above, row of shops down to the left and parking meters - what happened to them?. I remember there was a room in the basement of Baskerville house where the...

Still on Roll 13, this is very much of its time and place - this is the view of the Copthorne Hotel from the Library or the hole then was underneath the library before the filled it in, and on the right is part of the Grapevine, a lunchtime watering hole before that end of town went...

Next view, and completing the circle this is the view towards Broad Street, taken before the regeneration took place and all the buildings were refurbished. In this picture, windows are broken tiles are missing and a small step away from losing these buildings. The current view has so much...

back again and still in Gas Street, continuing with the 360 degree view and this time we are looking towards the James Brindley pub, spent many a lunchtime there - plenty of canal boats and the back of the ATV/ Central TV studios. , on the left we have the start / finish of the Hyatt Hotel.

Love the lorry and the sign to Aston Hall car Park - gives it a bit of context - thankyou

An atmospheric picture which adds to the location, carrying on with our view around Gas Street Basin again taken from the bridge moving to the left and we have a selection of canalside properties, again taken in 1990, these have now become canalside restuarnts, but the building maintain the...

moving now to the canal side of Gas Street and a view taken from the old footbridge over the canal. We are looking into what is now the Canalside Bar, showing what this area had become - run down and neglected although still having its original features. Today it is part of the thriving canal...