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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 .

R - Streetnames The Radleys/ Radley Walk B33 Named after Radley Moor which is recorded 1176 as Radelega = red fields, from the sandy soil. The moor was a strip of boggy land along Platt Brook which has still not been built on. Raglan Road B12 and B21 Lord Raglan was Commander-in-Chief in the...

R - Streetnames The Radleys/ Radley Walk B33 Named after Radley Moor which is recorded 1176 as Radelega = red fields, from the sandy soil. The moor was a strip of boggy land along Platt Brook which has still not been built on. Raglan Road B12 and B21 Lord Raglan was Commander-in-Chief in the...

M - Streetnames Macdonald Street B5 Named after a family from Scotland in the early 19th century; Angelina Street and Emily Street are named after two daughters. Mackadown Lane B33 An Anglo-Saxon road, derived from Machitone, Anglo-Saxon Macca’s tun = Macca’s farm, the original manor of...

M - Streetnames Macdonald Street B5 Named after a family from Scotland in the early 19th century; Angelina Street and Emily Street are named after two daughters. Mackadown Lane B33 An Anglo-Saxon road, derived from Machitone, Anglo-Saxon Macca’s tun = Macca’s farm, the original manor of...

Streetnames This Gazetteer of street names was started by Clinton Davies. It was continued by Bill Dargue initially using information from Vivian Bird 1970 Portrait of Birmingham, Vivian Bird 1991 Streetwise, Joseph McKenna 1986 Birmingham Street Names, and anything by John Morris Jones. It...

Streetnames This Gazetteer of street names was started by Clinton Davies. It was continued by Bill Dargue initially using information from Vivian Bird 1970 Portrait of Birmingham, Vivian Bird 1991 Streetwise, Joseph McKenna 1986 Birmingham Street Names, and anything by John Morris Jones. It...

Google Books has William Smith's illustrated 1830 'A New & Compendious History of the County of Warwick from the earliest period to the present time comprising views of the principal towns, buildings, modern improvements, seats of the nobility & gentry, ecclesiastical edifices &c &c' -...

More from the Internet Archive (I don't think I've listed these above.) Handbook of Birmingham for the 1886 meeting of the British Association - https://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbirming00unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up Birmingham Illustrated - Cornish's Stranger's Guide through Birmingham...

The Swinging 60s 1969 at Birmingham Register Office My suit: from Rackham's, no less. My wife's dress made by her own fair hand, and - to please her mom, 15 inches from the waist, instead of the usual 12! :stare: I'm not sure she can still get into it . . . .

Have a look at this 1975 aerial photo on old Birmingham Pictures - https://oldbirminghampictures.lefora.com/2010/05/16/bordesley-views/#post2. You can clearly see the Blues ground, and the park behind it must be Kingston Hill. I reckon Garrison Lane park is just on the extreme right of the...

Virtual Brum The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has archived Peter Gamble's Virtual Brum from September 2000 to August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.virtualbrum.co.uk It certainly doesn't work as it did and a lot of the images are missing, but thank goodness some of it has...

Google Streetview I've now added Google Streetview to all the Google maps on my website - if I've missed any do let me know. I've also enabled all the images to be enlarged to their original size - again, if I've missed any please let me know. A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . ...

There's an interesting article by Leicester University's Archaeology team about the prehistory of the site - https://swww2.le.ac.uk:8443/uol/ebulletin/news/out-and-about/2000-2009/2009/02/nparticle.2009-02-02.1703126139.

The graveyard of St Martin's-in-the-Bull Ring was extremely full by the late 18th century and was extended. William Hutton wrote in 1783: From the eminence upon which the High-street stands, proceeds a steep, and regular descent into Moor-street, Digbeth, down Spiceal-street, Lee's-lane, and...

There's some great stuff on Mapseeker - https://www.mapseeker.co.uk. This is a commercial site working with Collins Bartholomew with a large selection of reproduction historical maps. You can buy their products, of course, but they are happy for people to use their images as long as it's for...

The Baldwin Project - https://www.mainlesson.com/ seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. The focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first...

Hi Brummie60 I've got that snippet about Westbrook Farm on my History of Birmingham on your Doorstep - https://billdargue.jimdo.com/william-dargue-s-history-of-birmingham-on-your-doorstep/ - So it must be on the Birmingham Sites & Monuments Record which is maintained by the City Archaeologist...

A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y - https://billdargue.jimdo.com/ Map Links For each placename I've now added a link to the late 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps on the British History Online website - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/map.aspx which should open...

Hi Harry - I haven't been back to Primrose Hill since it's been finished, but there are some pictures of work in progress at the end of 2008 on A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y -...