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17. In her Confirmation dress 1970s Witton, Birmingham

16. Vimto Kid 1970s Aston, Birmingham

15. Witton Square businesses. These businesses were in Witton Lane at Witton Square. Just out of the picture to the right is the Tram Shed. There was a Birmingham Municipal Bank branch there for as long as I can remember, later renamed the TSB (Trustee Savings Bank), but there are no retail...

14. The Witton Co-Op. The Birmingham Co-Operative store in Aston Lane near its junction with Witton Road. It closed as it was claimed to be uneconomical but was replaced by another supermarket which appears to thrive to this day. The shops visible in the background have all been replaced by...

13. Witton Road Witton Road showing the junction with Manor Road. All of the buildings from the junction to the railwaybridge at Witton Station have since been demolished to make a car park and the remaining frontages have been "updated".

12.Witton Road at Trinity Road Sep 1981 This was diagonally opposite the Post Office, but everything you see here has been levelled to be replaced by housing.

11. Witton Road Post Office At the junction with Trinity Road. The Post Office remains today but all of the background buildings have been replaced by modern housing.

10. Witton Road at Nelson Road 1970s Despite numerous changes all around and opposite it, this shop still continues to sell used furniture.

8. Witton Road Witton Road shops near the Trinity Road traffic lights. The buildings still exist but all of the businesses have changed. Around 1948-1950 the leftmost shop of this group was Mr Hill'snewsagents shop where I used to go to collect my reserved copy of the "Eagle" every week. I can...

7. IMI demolition Many buildings of the IMI estate were demolished a couple of decades ago to make room for the Holford Estate, more visually attractive than the usual industrial estate. More were cleared recently for something called "The Hub," which has not yet, as far as I have noticed...

6. Lloyds Bank, Witton.2000 This was the interior of the bank just before it closed, leaving Witton's shoppers and businesses without local banking facilities, the TSB having closed some time before. A Lloyds Bank poster claimed that the branch had "moved" to Erdington, specifying a branch that...

5. Imperial Metal Industries Witton.2003 One of the most enduring and stylish landmarks of Witton. As Kynoch's, this factory survived WWII while making munitions, luckily because my Mom worked there then as an cartridge inspector. Although this photograph was taken only in 2003, it is already...

4. Electric Avenue Witton 1994 All of the houses on the left have since been demolished and replaced by the Junction Six industrial estate. At the planning stage, in an exhibition at Witton Community Centre, to pre-empt residents' opposition to their plans, the developers displayed artists'...

3. Halladays Witton This drop forging company's "tin building" at the junction of Tame Road and Electric Avenue, Witton was demolished in 2004 and another item of character disappears.

1.Tame Road Window The newsagent's window in Tame Road. A newsagent is still there but the new owners have transformed it out of all recognition to make it a weekend and overnight fortress. ... at night.

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 5

48. Tame Road Shops. 1980s These were my local shops. The buildings are still there but so many of the businesses have closed, and with the spectre of a Tesco being built on the site opposite, the future looks to be no rosier for them. Update: Tesco's application has since been withdrawn, but...

47. Tame Road. 1980s A very mild state of flooding by the River Tame, visible in the distance.

45. River Tame's old railings Here's the River Tame at Witton, not many inches below street level. Taken at the time of the old wrought iron railings. Taken on the last days of the old railings. They are about to be replaced by a four foot wall with shorter railings akin to scaffolding poles...

44. River Tame at Perry Hall Park The river at Perry Hall Park during extensive excavation. The result has been that residents of Witton, two miles downriver, are no longer up to their knees in floodwater every winter. You can't see this exact view today because the far side has been raised...