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47. Walsall

46. Prefabs Great Barr One of the prefabs from inside.

45. Prefabs Great Barr A row of prefabricated houses ("prefabs") which were mass-produced, factory style, as a temporary solution to the shortage of housing after WWII. They were so well regarded by their inhabitants that they lasted well beyond their planned life. This row of them was in...

44. Sandwell Valley West Bromwich, West Midlands

43. Sandwell Valley West Bromwich, West Midlands

42. Sandwell Valley West Bromwich, West Midlands A building ready for demolition to clear the area for transforming it into Sandwell Country Park. One of only two photos that I know to have been taken with my 28mm Kiev lens, a very rare item as I now know, but I was unaware of it when I sold my...

41. Sandwell Valley West Bromwich, West Midlands The Sandwell Valley leisure area was created from a semi-rural zone between raised sections of the M5 and M6 near West Bromwich. A former brickworks was landscaped over and flooding created a few lakes for recreation. This was taken in the early...

40. Bromsgrove Church steps ...at the top, under the lych gate

39. Bromsgrove Church steps The Church steps.

38. Bromsgrove Church steps The Church steps.

37. Bromsgrove Black Cross The Black Cross public house.

36. Bromsgrove I photographed this old building in the markets area of Bromsgrove and it was demolished very soon afterwards.

35. Bromsgrove I photographed this old building in the markets area of Bromsgrove and it was demolished very soon afterwards.

34. BSA round tank A motorcycle made around 1920 by the Birmingham Small Arms Company in Small Heath at its best. It later went on to make a succession of mundane machines, with the exception of the Gold Star clubman, which was so incredibly popular that they immediately stopped making it - an...

33. My old Velocette MSS In response to a request, another picture of it. When Veloce closed (the site of their Hall Green factory is now covered in new housing), I worried about the avail- ablility of spare parts and traded it, with a Renault 4 car, towards the cost of a new Suzuki T500R...

32. My MSS near Earlswood Solihull, West Midlands This was my Velocette MSS motorcycle in a floodedlane near Earlswood. The Velocette was probably the best motorcycle ever to be built in Birmingham, certainly much better than either of the two BSAs that I had owned before. I'd love to be riding...

31. South Parade Sutton Coldfield The smart arcade that was swallowed up by the expansion of Sutton Public Library.

30. Old bay window There were two of these in the house almost opposite the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. The house has since been renovated but sadly the ornate windows have been replaced by a pair of very mundane items.

29. Sutton Snowfield Taken behind the former army barracks in SuttonColdfield on a snowy day of the sort we haven't had here for many years. Blizzards occur all around the country but somehow manage to just miss this part of the Midlands most winters.

28. Barn Farm in the snow Sutton Coldfield Not far from the back of the former Sutton Army Barracks, this used to look like a thriving little farm but I later found it in a sad state of dereliction. I read that it is to be used by some youth organisation. Update Jan 2008: It has now been...