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11. A Tessina candid 1960s in Birchfield Road, near Six Ways.

7. Six Ways Aston 1979 The old shops in Aston High Street at Six Ways at night. The building to the left of the three stylish upper windows was originally a branch of the Birmingham Municipal Bank. 8. Six Ways Aston 1979 The same shops as the last photo, but in daylight. 9. Six Ways Aston...

5. Freer Road At the top of the road, facing the junction with Hampton Road. The houses on the right of the photo have since been demolished and replaced with more modern structures. At left of the photo, through the alley can be glimpsed the rear of flats on top of the shops in Birchfield Road...

2. Freer Rd renewal 1980s Numbers 136 and 138 Freer Road undergo urban renewal. I spent quite a chunk of my childhood playing in the back garden that is visible down that entry there.

1. Freer Road A bit of urban renewal in progress. An old type bay window (like the one in the foreground) is being replaced by a more 'modern' type (like the shallower bay, next one along). The tenants were all moved out while the renovations, which were very thorough, took place, but they were...

The Keith Berry Photo Archive 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 7

I popped out to Key Hill Cemetery today to look at the bluebells, it did not disappoint:

The value of the land would have well exceeded the income form the site as a cinema

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.