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35. Bromsgrove I photographed this old building in the markets area of Bromsgrove and it was demolished very soon afterwards.

34. BSA round tank A motorcycle made around 1920 by the Birmingham Small Arms Company in Small Heath at its best. It later went on to make a succession of mundane machines, with the exception of the Gold Star clubman, which was so incredibly popular that they immediately stopped making it - an...

33. My old Velocette MSS In response to a request, another picture of it. When Veloce closed (the site of their Hall Green factory is now covered in new housing), I worried about the avail- ablility of spare parts and traded it, with a Renault 4 car, towards the cost of a new Suzuki T500R...

32. My MSS near Earlswood Solihull, West Midlands This was my Velocette MSS motorcycle in a floodedlane near Earlswood. The Velocette was probably the best motorcycle ever to be built in Birmingham, certainly much better than either of the two BSAs that I had owned before. I'd love to be riding...

31. South Parade Sutton Coldfield The smart arcade that was swallowed up by the expansion of Sutton Public Library.

30. Old bay window There were two of these in the house almost opposite the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. The house has since been renovated but sadly the ornate windows have been replaced by a pair of very mundane items.

29. Sutton Snowfield Taken behind the former army barracks in SuttonColdfield on a snowy day of the sort we haven't had here for many years. Blizzards occur all around the country but somehow manage to just miss this part of the Midlands most winters.

28. Barn Farm in the snow Sutton Coldfield Not far from the back of the former Sutton Army Barracks, this used to look like a thriving little farm but I later found it in a sad state of dereliction. I read that it is to be used by some youth organisation. Update Jan 2008: It has now been...

27. Sutton farm Sutton Coldfield

26. A Sutton gate In Withy Hill Road, a nice piece of urban "countryside" that has so far had to survive both the Sutton By-Pass and the M6 Toll Road undercutting it.

24. Bobby Brown's Sutton Park Twenty years later it had become Bobby Brown's Restaurant.

23. Sutton Park café The cheerful café that was at Bracebridge Pool, Sutton Park. It was later replaced by a more upmarket restaurant. In those days Sutton had not yet been swallowed up by Birmingham.

22. Sutton Park café The cheerful café that was at Bracebridge Pool, Sutton Park. It was later replaced by a more upmarket restaurant. In those days Sutton had not yet been swallowed up by Birmingham.

21. Sutton Park café The cheerful café that was at Bracebridge Pool, Sutton Park. It was later replaced by a more upmarket restaurant. In those days Sutton had not yet been swallowed up by Birmingham.

20. Rope swing Gondolas Sutton Park These were next to the car park inside Boldmere Gate. Roundabouts and a car track have been added since.

19. Wyndley Pool Sutton Park Canada Geese line up for the next race ...

18. Field in Winter Sutton Coldfield I had intended to photograph this view every month to record its seasonal changes, but after two of them, the hedgerow in front of it had grown too high!

17. Field in Winter Sutton Coldfield I had intended to photograph this view every month to record its seasonal changes, but after two of them, the hedgerow in front of it had grown too high!

16. Solihull Taken in the days when Solihull was a pleasure to visit. I last went there ten years ago, when it had become so anti-motorist that is has ceased to exist as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I'll go some time in the future with my Senior Citizen 'bus pass...

15. Vintage Rolls-Royce Photographed in the Digbeth area during a vintage car run from Coventry to Birmingham.