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12.Unknown cul-de-sac

11. Street under demolition Suggestions were George St, Lozells, circa 77/78 halfway between John St and Wills St, looking down towards the Angel public house

10. Canal Bank

9. Unknown Wall Someone commented I think this used to be a terraced property opposite my house in Mount Pleasant in Small Heath between 1970-1972. They knocked them down around this time.

8. Unknown street Someone commented Not in Birmingham - it's those concrete lampposts and sodium lamps that give it away again

7. Derelict maisonette Another view.

6. Derelict maisonette We've lost so much interesting looking housing to these bland and boring things that it's rather nice to see them getting their own come-uppance! Someone commented I think you will find its miller lighting in astonbrook st. Someone else commented I think these are the...

5. CHD 1970s Somwhere in Handsworth perhaps Someone commented CHD My guess is City Housing Department

4. Overgrown Gardens 1960s Somewhere in Handsworth perhaps. Someone commented I think this is a picture of Holland St. in the middle of Sutton Coldfield,top of the Parade going towards Maney. I think one of the houses used to be the School clinic in the 1950's early 1960's

3. Old Factory 1958 I've tried hard without success to remember where this was, but as I used to walk home from Newhall Street through parts of Hockley, Newtown and Handsworth, I have to assume that it was somewhere in that area.

2. Unknown Gates Closer view of same gates.

1. Unknown Gates. Keith Berry thought this could be in Walsall

The Keith Berry Photo Archive Details in my Old Birmingham album were often from the scribbled notes on the back of the photos that were scanned into the computer, but I have come across some rolls of developed black & white films - negatives in other words - with no notes anywhere, and some...

27. Butty A butty is a narrowboat without its own motive power and it is hauled by an another engined narrowboat.

26. Mandy & Co

25. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This junction is just off Dudley Road after there had been a lot of demolition in the area.

24. Birmingham City Canal 1980s More modern buildings cluster round this canal junction.

23. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This view has had its modern high rise detritus edited out to show it more as it would (should) have been seen at the time.

22. Birmingham City Canal 1980s This view has had its modern high rise detritus edited out to show it more as it would (should) have been seen at the time. This picture is historic for it shows the stop plank island at the junction of the BCN mainline and the Birmingham and Fazeley canal to...

20. Birmingham City Canal 1980s It's difficult to portray a Birmingham canal scene as it should be seen, i.e. as it was built, because of the proliferation of the systematic high-rise uglification of the skyline as shown in the background here... 21. Birmingham City Canal 1980s this is the...