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43. Bearwood Road near its junction with Sandon Road. 44. Bearwood Road The reverse view of the previous photo. The junction with Three Shires Oak Road and "The Bear" public house are visible.

41. Piccadilly Arcade entrance in Navigation Street. We used to call this junction 'Hornton's Corner.' 42. Piccadilly Arcade entrance ... a closer view.

40. Livery Street Viewed from Colmore Row. The original length of this street is reflected in the phrase "with a face as long as Livery Street." It was much longer before it was cut through by the Queensway. (I read somewhere that City Road is Birmingham's longest street.)

39. Colmore Row Looking towards Bull Street.

38. Evening Mail vendor Outside the premises of Edward Grey in Bull Street before it became Debenham's

35. Bull Ring market

34. Bull Ring

33. The old Bull Ring This was at the time of the open Market Hall, visible at the extreme right, because WWII bombing had left it roofless. Cranes stand ominously on the skyline; the construction of slabs of architectural ugliness was doubtless imminent.

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.