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Thanks Lyn, always happy to be told of alternate images ( i was going to say "told my pictures were rubbish ) :laughing:

With a jump of 30 years we are now in 1991, and a view down Long Acre - it seems most of these picture from the 1990's were taken on a Sunday hence the lack of traffic. We have the Swan and Mitre off in the distance , railway terrace is the road to the right and not surprisingly the bridge...

With a better image - although also available in the Great Hampton Row thread, we can now see that Woods and Potter are the newsagents , all the sweet jars in the window next door and the shop owner looking out - are they checking on us or the child? These are numbers 77 - 78 . Both of these...

Continuing on Roll 48 we have what is described as old shops and houses Great Hampton Row and St Georges Place Hockley. Now we have a better image there is so much more to see, firstly the Gold Flake painted sign, then the projecting sign next door. Note also the goods on the pavement as well as...

Moving forward in time we have H. Knight pork butcher Ham and Bacon curer and Lard refiner - you don't see that these days. This is looking up Great Hampton Row from Tower Street taken in August 1961 with a selection of two and three storey buildings a lot have large entrance gates so I assume...

Continuing the time travel we are now back in October 1949, George Fisher Hairdresser, who is on the corner of Great Hampton Row and New John Street West, note the Permanant Waving and specialist in Manicure and Chiropody - for Ladies and Gents of course. Note the two children standing outside...

We now jump back to June 1959, and Steelhouse Lane - I have posted a similar image from this location but not the same I don't think - someone will tell me. On the left hand corner we have Harrisons Opticians, with a massive sign in the middle of the building, and above that seems to be a...

We now jump forward 40 years to the Wesleyan and General Building on Colmore Circus taken in December 1974. Long gone and replace with a much larger building, apologies for the quality - seemed to be a lot sharper when I looked at it - few things to comment on notice the car park in front of the...

Next up we have High Street Digbeth taken in 1930's, love chaos of Trams, trolley busses and other vehicles and if you look carefully you can see a cyclist crossing them all !!. I have noticed that the building on the left has " SPQR" on the front - only recently having watch a Henry Coles...

Well that took a while but I have now finished some more rolls, actually it didn't take long but you know how it is when you put something down and don't pick it straight back up - suddenly 3 months have gone by. To start we have the second half of roll 48 , not sure of the source of this image...

Roll 48 is the last of the current " processed images" I will have to go and crop and tidy a few more rolls but may process then post so there is not such a long wait - but don't worry we are not running out at a rough count there are another 70 rolls to process!! ( but expect a lot of...

so back onto the Lichfield Road and the last on the roll, plenty of work going on, on both sides of the road, allowing for the road widening. If you remember the start of the roll we had picture of The Vine - we can just see it off in the distance - and between us is now a roundabout!! Lot...

Next we move to Portland Street turned around and looking down the road to the Manor Tavern, and here we have sense of normality and a view that you would recognise today. As with many of the more modern images - taken on a Sunday I believe judging by the lack of traffic. nothing more to add -...

Next we cross the road to Upper Portland Street, again there are many differences while the area on the left is a showroom the right of the road is now industrial units and the trees in the distance have all grown up

The next few images are the redevelopment of the Lichfield Road in 1991, first thing is this is a single carriageway, to fix the location - the road sign says Portland Street, but the road we are standing on no longer exists. nothing more to add, note the emptiness on the other side of the road

Last bus image for the moment described as special at the bottom of old Dale End and Coleshall Street in 1960, as always in the middle of road works - with those red and white barriers everywhere, nice couple of cars to the left of the bus and in the background plenty of factories which are...

Next image is shown for interest as the quality is not good and also shows what is often the starting point of the images - a photo of a photo unfortunately with a reflection in this case. A better version will show up probably and I will replace and re write the entry, also there is no...

Described as " coming down High Street Deritend ", that is all I have to offer I am afraid, the area is quite different from today, note the blinds on the shops in the background. 29A was quite a long journey, not broke or terminated in the city and a change of bus required - makes you wonder...

Thanks Mikejee just shows no pictures are "new" and the outcome of taking photos of photos, I / we appreciate you taking the time to post the images and maps when I post completing the story

Back to bus images - slightly different, turning out of High Street into Vicarage Road Kings Heath - on the outer circle route , we have a bus with the West Midland makings on the side - my list says 1960 but I thought this happened later than this - any additions appreciated . To the left of...