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32. New Street

31. Christmas illuminations This is New Street looking towards its junction with Corporation Street. Note the old bus stops - large, legible and informative, unlike today's. It was very quiet at night then; the drink sodden nightlife hadn't begun.

30. Lewis's illuminations A much missed store, Lewis's, where my second job after leaving school was as a trainee chef on their sixth floor - for a day and a half, when I caught 'flu and Lewis's sat me in a wheelchair, took me down the goods lift and sent me home in a taxi. After I recovered, I...

29. Martineau Street at night. To the right is Martineau Way and Gratispool, where I used to work

28. Christmas illuminations Corporation Street near its junction with Lower Bull Street.

27. Corporation Street photographed from a staircase through a window in Lewis's department store

26. Motorcycle parking In or near Hill Street.

25. Ludgate Hill Street running parallel to Newhall Street.

24. Burlington Arcade

23. Burlington Passage At the back of Hudson's bookshop in New Street, this alley later became a covered shopping arcade. In the background is an Austin A35 van, one of the most ubiquitous vehicles of the time and it seemed as though hardly a fortnight passed without seeing one of them...

17. St Peters Place Also visible in the background in the photograph of the antique shop, this once grand house awaits destruction. 18. St Peters Place That's Broad Street in the distance - and the fabulous stationery shop where I bought my first artists quality watercolour paintbox. 19...

16. St Peters Place antique shop The interior of the shop in the previous photograph.

15. St Peters Place antique shop St Peters Place was off Broad Street, not far from Bingley Hall. Halfway along the wall is an embedded waggon wheel, the spaces between the spokes of which were glazed to make a circular window.

14. New Street

13. Near Ryder Street Taken on the same day as the previous photograph.

12.Ryder Street One of the earliest photographs I took of Birmingham streets, 1958.

11. Scotland Street near The Parade. Apparently it is nowadays the fifth most expensive street in Birmingham in which to buy a house.

10. Summer Hill Post Office Powell Street

9. The Parade Quite close to the Hall of Memory in Broad Street.

8. Barrows Wheelbarrows photographed around the markets area of central Birmingham.