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4. Overgrown Gardens 1960s Somewhere in Handsworth perhaps. Someone commented I think this is a picture of Holland St. in the middle of Sutton Coldfield,top of the Parade going towards Maney. I think one of the houses used to be the School clinic in the 1950's early 1960's

3. Old Factory 1958 I've tried hard without success to remember where this was, but as I used to walk home from Newhall Street through parts of Hockley, Newtown and Handsworth, I have to assume that it was somewhere in that area.

2. Unknown Gates Closer view of same gates.

1. Unknown Gates. Keith Berry thought this could be in Walsall

The Keith Berry Photo Archive Details in my Old Birmingham album were often from the scribbled notes on the back of the photos that were scanned into the computer, but I have come across some rolls of developed black & white films - negatives in other words - with no notes anywhere, and some...

27. Butty A butty is a narrowboat without its own motive power and it is hauled by an another engined narrowboat.

26. Mandy & Co

25. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This junction is just off Dudley Road after there had been a lot of demolition in the area.

24. Birmingham City Canal 1980s More modern buildings cluster round this canal junction.

23. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This view has had its modern high rise detritus edited out to show it more as it would (should) have been seen at the time.

22. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This view has had its modern high rise detritus edited out to show it more as it would (should) have been seen at the time. This picture is historic for it shows the stop plank island at the junction of the BCN mainline and the Birmingham and Fazeley canal to...

20. Birmingham City Canal 1980s It's difficult to portray a Birmingham canal scene as it should be seen, i.e. as it was built, because of the proliferation of the systematic high-rise uglification of the skyline as shown in the background here... 21. Birmingham City Canal 1980s this is the...

18. Birmingham City Canal 1980s

17. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This is at the top of Farmers Bridge locks sometime in the 1980's- I recognise the boat as owned by Ken Mullins who was the lock keeper here at the time - the lock keepers house is just to the right off the photo.

16. Birmingham City Canal 1980s Andrew Hoyle Is the boat The Britannia, Second City Cruisers water bus. If it is, I now own this boat, but now restored back to working condition and back to the first name "Dove"

13. Birmingham City Canal 1980s

11. Aston Canal 1980

10. Aston Canal 1980 Steve Collingwood worked at tubes Ltd when this photo was taken and the basket is where we'd place a hot forging to cool so the dimensions could be checked

9. Aston Canal 1980 The bridge connecting both building was Tubes Ltd Left side was the forging dept and on the other side was the draw bench

8. Aston Canal 1980