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21. Under Spaghetti Junction from the Electric Avenue road bridge. You can see Phyllis Nicklin's earlier view from a nearby position 22. Under Spaghetti Junction The car may have fallen in the Tame from the piles of vehicles in the scrap yard to the right of the picture.you can see Phyllis...

20. Spaghetti Junction 1979 When the M6 Interchange ("Spaghetti Junction") first opened, the verges were planted with swathes of Lupins in a variety of colours. The following year there were just a few scattered ones, and by the third year they had all disappeared, never to reappear.

18. Paddlers Erdington Paddle boat users at Witton Lakes. More paddle boats on Witton Lakes.

17. Paddle boats Perry Barr Children's paddle boats in Perry Hall Park. They were used in what used to be the moat of Perry Hall, which was demolished to create the park from part of the grounds. The tree- lined streets outside the park were once the drives through the grounds to the house. The...

16. Circus parade Perry Barr 1959 The bear cage trailer.

15. Billy Smart's Parade Perry Barr 1959 I photographed this parade of Billy Smart's Circus vehicles down Birchfield Road around 1959.

13. Constitution Hill 1983 ... at the junction with Summer Lane. 14. Constitution Hill 1983 These are the shops just visible at the extreme left of the last photo.

12.Summer Lane Interesting buildings in Summer Lane near its Constitution Hill junction. Amazingly, they were still there the last time I passed by.

10. Loveday Street This street was in Aston, not far from the city centre. It has disappeared now, at least at the Summer Lane end, as something large and sprawling is being built across it. A closer view of the shop.

9. Gunmakers Arms 1990 Birmingham's Gun Quarter

8. St Martins Place St Martins Place near Digbeth.

6. Grid House Witton 1999 The low building in the right foreground carried an iron plaque with the words "Grid House" upon it. Not long after I took this photograph, just the other side of the bridge from Witton Lock, the building had completely disappeared. This is the view of a bit of...

5. Witton icy canal 1960s Under the bridge at Witton Locks.

4. Witton locks 1960s The small building in the centre was the Grid House, the others were the General Electric Co., whose main entrance was in Electric Avenue. At extreme left was XpelAir, where I was once refused a job because they thought I wouldn't stay long. Well, I've reached retirement...

3. Canal towpath Smethwick Mar 1980

2. Oldbury High Street A M Belewski Newsagents.

1. Waterloo Road Smethwick, Warley Oct 1980. A continuation of Bearwood Road into Smethwick, this was a busy shopping street.

The Keith Berry Photo Archive A selection of his scanned photographs and slides together with his accompanying notes taken between the 1960s and 1990s, in and around Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Smethwick, West Bromwich and Walsall. Old Birmingham Page 6

48. Smethwick street

46. Closed shop Smethwick, Warley A derelict shop on the borders of Handsworth and Smethwick.