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The history of photography isn't a development from one person or company, but a synthesis of many knowledges and inventions. I think more of us will have owned a Box Brownie than will have a Lancaster. I've developed 4x5 sheet film in trays in my bathroom and the process demands absolute...

I think that Eastman Kodak might have had something to do with the development of amateur photography. "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest" The Kodak system enabled rolls to be sent away for development or handed to the chemist. Originally the entire camera was returned. With a plate camera...

Mother who lived in Reservoir Terrace always called the tower 'The Observatory.' I have walked past many times over the years, but never been inside. I hope it opens to the public again while I'm still able to manage the stairs! I see it's still on the At Risk register due to damage to the...

The water supply in Smethwick including Bearwood which is close to the Birmingham border is hard and markedly different in taste to the Welsh water now supplied to Birmingham.

As to your family photos Wendy, perhaps you might be very lucky if you make a family tree on say Ancestry and put your photo in the gallery? I have found some family photos this way. If you have older relatives with photos then see if they will pencil names on the back and let you copy them...

'Niphon' seems to be an earlier English form of Nippon - Japan. Japanning metal. The premises of Robert Stroud and Co who made all kinds of tinware and milk churns. http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/metalware/general/stroud.htm I'm pleased that the splendid frontage has a future life.

Birmingham Gazette 26 Mar 1954

Welcome to BHF Wendy! There is a short thread on this photographer who was based in Handsworth and seems to be well known in the Birmingham area. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/taylors-photography.51788/

Thanks Mark. I wasn't suggesting that the booking hall arches are the ones that can be seen in St Chad's rail underpass, just that arches are part of the architecture of the old station building - what remains of it. I'm uncertain of what if anything might remain from 1858? 'In Livery Street...

Thanks Mike. Do you think that the arches might have been open originally to ventilate the space behind then later bricked up?

I meant the ones in the booking hall, which are a different design. I'm guessing the 1969 picture in the street shows ventilation at the top. Did steam engines run the other side of the wall? Or ventilation for the concourse under the glass roof? I wonder if most of the arches in the outside...

Another view from 1950s. I'd say some of these are or were originally ticket offices where you could buy tickets.

I think the arches are what remains of old Snow Hill station which was rebuilt 1906-1912 closed in 1972 and mostly demolished in 1977. You can see arches at the rear of the booking hall photo in this postcard of 1914 [Wikipedia public domain] But many members have a detailed knowledge of this...

Welcome David, Details of the execution are in the first post of this link: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/public-execution.33901/ Now to the arches - are they the ones in post #11 in the link I've posted?

Happy Birthday Lloyd! Have a good day.

Good luck to you!

Making a public tree will help everyone who might be connected with you. And this will help your own research.

Welcome Scott, How about a month's subscription to https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Family stories can be a useful pointer, even if they seem improbable. Sports clubs, hobbies. I was given my gf's prize bulldog medals, so I was able to find his records. I knew he had two families and...

I think so called 'craft beer' has muddied the waters. But I did have an Easter pint of Ulay's Pigs Ear at The Fleece Bretforton - recommended especially with a pie!

Thanks Viv, some apparently nominated a newborn child though in a time of high infant mortality this could be risky. Amanda Taylor explains for law students: https://lawsblog.london.ac.uk/2020/10/21/an-old-fashioned-and-now-probably-illegal-way-to-raise-cash/