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Sorted, thanks Viv

Thats a thought, I have a feeling Aston Brook and Hockley Brook were one and the same

Interesting observation that Richard. I imagine in the day smoking was promoted as health benefit, the association between ill health and smoking had yet to be realised. I also think there were a lot of smokers, mainly men then too. A lot of shops did then tend to be quite single disciplined...

So you fired it up, ran it up to working pressure and if it didn’t blow you to smithereens it was jobs a good un.

Richard, I was looking at these two grave markers quite recently. If I hazard a guess by the dates, high pressure steam boilers were still in development and there were quite a few boiler accidents. I formed the impression that with all that stored energy, design and material flaws seemed to a...

I quite like stuff like this, not bogged down in pedantic detail so you get an overall all feel for the subject. It then makes history a place of possibility’s

There is quite a very nice history of the railways on the Historic England Blog today. It talks about railway development and the other offshoots the railways bought about like social infrastructure, railway towns and holiday resorts. I never knew that our beloved Weston-super-Mare was a...

Yes, looks like the Swan Inn on the left, that lamp was quite iconic. The Abbey steeple in the distance. Looks like just before the wall around the village green was built, but the monument commemorating of the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 is there with its lamppost. I did not know it had a...

The garden walls also look like Gravely Hill too

For a moment I thought that looks like Gravely Hill, but I am wondering if its Sutton Road before the Lyndhurst Estate was built.

I don’t recall anything of notable interest being demolished in Erdington, just to odd few small houses etc. Erdington was also where there was a lot of social housing built in the 1920’s, most it seems built on farmland

Wealth inequality was still quite high in those days despite the government beginning to improve the social infrastructure. While I accept it is difficult and complex to measure wealth inequality, we see the country, despite the recent depression was not doing to bad at the time, but it was how...

I have a few more of Frankley Reservoir during its construction Mike.

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There was an open day a couple of weeks ago that I popped along to, to have a look around. The pump house has had some renovation work done which is a nice change. When I first saw it, the roof was off, and the chimney stack had been almost demolished. Now run by a group of volunteers who do...

Interesting photo that Mike, it seems to have a modern LED lamppost

I had been wondering where the entrance used to be, I went there few times. It looks like its where the burger bar is now https://maps.app.goo.gl/3ppTW9eGMy9PKDJh7

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The pig bins were I recall an unofficial operation where local pig famers would collect food waste. There was still a couple of small holding off Short Heath Road and Court Lane when I was young. I know they would leave and collect tin containers for food waste to make pig swill with. It may...

I cannot see it marked as Coffin Lane on the 1873 maps; it is certainly marked as Kings Road by the turn of the century. It may be a local name and thinking out loud am and taking into consideration that its looks quite an old very straight road I am wondering if it could have been a former...