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There's a Phyllis Nicklin photo from 1968 in which you can barely see the buildings! - https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/500/.

Some interesting Castle Vale links - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0gF9GU8Vk - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukprojection/sets/72157626518405612/ - https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/castlevalehistory#pdf - https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-c/castle-vale/ -...

Thanks Bernie - and for me too now - but I'm blowed if I can find the Castle Bromwich pictures again!

Hi Mike & Mark - The images are from an Irish website called Archiseek which has a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/archiseek) but the website itself does not appear to be working any longer. However, if you Google Images for 'Archiseek' and 'Bateman', you get the pictures up -...

Info from Victoria County History at British History Online - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22984 NECHELLS COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Eliot Street.(27) Hutton St. Bd. Sch. opened 1879 by Birm. Sch. Bd.(23) Accom. 1,062 B, G, I.(21) Fees 1d.–3d.(22) Name changed c. 1897 to...

Hmmm! Hi Wendy - the adverts are why the site is provided free, of course! There is a problem with this site in that sometimes the pictures are only half-displayed, but if you click on them, they do display correctly. But be careful not to click the ads! Wendy - Give it another go!

Some more photos on the Old Birmingham Pictures website - https://oldbirminghampictures.lefora.com/2011/01/06/ward-end-st-margarets-church/. Bill

Sorry to keep keeping them coming, but there's an interesting page about Frederick Gibson Garton, the creator of HP Sauce - https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lesleydonald/page128.htm. If he'd have been a better businessman the sauce would never have come to Aston in the first...

Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn invited MPs Geoffrey Robinson, Grant Shapps and Tessa Jowell to answer the burning political issue of the day: do they prefer the new or old HP Sauce recipe? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14918091

Here's where your 'ORIGINAL' HP Sauce is made now - in Spain -...

Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel opens in October - https://www.castlebromwichhallhotel.com/ [/IMG]

Just referring back to macqueen's post - I hate to bust a family myth, but I don't think St George's ever had bells. There are none mentioned in the Victoria County History - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22976 - and they'd be mentioned in Mike Chester's Warwickshire...

HP Sauce - Don't take it lying down! HP recently set up a facebook page so we could all tell how wonderful their product is. But everyone's telling them they should still be making it in Brum and they shouldn't have changed the recipe. Let's all tell 'em what we think -...

It’s Christ Church, Perry Barr - there’s a thread on the Forum It’s on the OS map of 1884 - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55192&sheetid=10073&ox=1410&oy=2708&zm=1&czm=1&x=138&y=368 . Bill

It’s Christ Church, Perry Barr - there’s a thread on the Forum It’s on the OS map of 1884 - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55192&sheetid=10073&ox=1410&oy=2708&zm=1&czm=1&x=138&y=368 . Bill

I'm pretty sure this was a smithy (and wheelwright's) on the Chester Road opposite 'The Castle' - Google Maps -...

Brian Essery (now in Australia) recently put some of his own photographs of this same area on Old Birmingham Pictures - https://oldbirminghampictures.lefora.com/2011/05/13/wenman-street-balsall-heath-road-east-end-area/ . He says the church was Wenman Street Gospel Hall which was demolished in...

Castle Vale History There are a couple of good downloads on the Birmingham City Council website - https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/castlevalehistory and the Wikipedia page is pretty good and has lots of references listed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Vale .

There is a smithy shown on the 1887 OS map - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55141&sheetid=8816&ox=3996&oy=3013&zm=1&czm=1&x=516&y=296 , but I believe there were also others in Castle Brom.

Newman College has some interesting local history resources - https://www.newmanlocalhistory.org.uk/ including an old document on Birmingham street names - https://www.newmanlocalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/history4-vol7.pdf .