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48. Freer Road Birchfield 1969 From no. 138 looking towards Hampton Road

47. Paving slab Sutton Coldfield 2003 In the lower right corner of the last photo, 'Milk Horse,' you can just see the original paving slabs, a distinctive Maltese Cross pattern. By the time of the next picture, 'Freer Road,' the pavements had been repaved with plain slabs, boring but probably...

46. Milk horse late 1950s A horse pulling a Birmingham Co-Operative Dairies'milk cart in Freer Road, where most of the houses were owned by the Bournville Trust, but were later to be adopted by Birmingham Council at he request of many residents in the very mistaken belief that things would...

45. Freer Road in the snow 1960s I lived in the second house from the right for 25 years.

44. Freer Road Aston 1960s This was Edna Jones' shop on the corner of Freer Road and Fentham Road. I knew it well in my early days as her daughter, Margaret, and I were sort of school friends, except that she had a propensity to drop me in it by telling tales of my exploits that she came to...

43. Fentham Road alley 1981 This alleyway runs from Fentham Road's junction with Arden Road to Witton Road opposite The Guild public house. The Witton Road end was made possible by the clearing and rebuilding of a block of houses. It would have been very useful for me if it had existed back in...

42. Fentham Road Aston 1960s There used to be eight shops here when I was growing up round the corner, now there are only two. This is Fentham Road near its junction with Freer Road. The junction with Arden Road is on the right, and opposite that, at the extreme left of the picture, is the...

41. Canterbury Cross School Perry Barr 1970s Though we didn't meet there, my wife and I both attended this school. It was called Canterbury Road School then, renamed Canterbury Cross later when my brother and sister went there. The area just beyond the first archway was called "the Quadrangle,"...

38. Perry Barr canal 1970s 39. Perry Barr canal 1970s 39. Perry Barr canal 1970s 40. Perry Barr canal 2005

37. Perry Barr 1970s To the left is the pedestrian subway to the Perry Barr railway station, and a quite notorious scene of muggings, despite which the local police station in Canterbury Road is no longer manned.

36. Perry Barr at night 1970s Taken from the railway bridge looking towards the City. For the same view in daylight see the next photo. This area was called 'Bristhope End' until a mistake on a map in the 1700s caused it to be renamed 'Perry Barr.'

35. Perry Barr dog track 1990s Greyhound racing moved here to make room for One Stop Shopping Precinct, while the athletics, which were here, moved down Walsall Road to Perry Barr Park and its own new, rather unsightly, stadium.

33. OneStop Perry Barr 1990 The construction of One-Stop Shopping Centre, Perry Barr, taken by my Minox 35GL, an ideal camera for cycling with. The bicycle is the Raleigh Maverick with which I replaced the Muddy City in the last photo. I believed it to be have been made by Araya of Japan, the...

32. OneStop Perry Barr 1986 The demolition of Perry Barr Greyhound Track to make way for the One-Stop Shopping Centre. In the foreground is my Muddy City bicycle that Wakelins in Witton Road sold for me to its new owner in Bragg Road, not many yards from here.

31. Wellington Road Perry Barr A few yards from the Crown & Cushion public house. Taken a few days before their demolition.

30. Gas Works Nechells Photographed in the Nechells/Saltley area. If I remember correctly, on the other side of this road was Hallworth's, who sold me a crash helmet when I was a motorcyclist.

29. Flower seller This one was in Colmore Row, almost opposite Snow Hill Station. It's strange to think back to those days and to remember what a friendly place Birmingham seemed to be then, with orderly bus queues and civilised teenage behaviour. Perhaps it's my age ...

28. Erdington flower seller He sold flowers outside Lloyds Bank in Erdington for many years, but his language was less than fragrant when he commented on my photographing him!

27. Courtyard entry This was photographed near Aston Cross and was the entrance to courtyards of back-to-back houses with communal facilities.

26. A typical Birmingham alley Alleyways like these ran behind many terraced houses without their own entries to facilitate deliveries to rear yards. Before sewerage they allowed access to the worker who removed the "night soil."