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33. OneStop Perry Barr 1990 The construction of One-Stop Shopping Centre, Perry Barr, taken by my Minox 35GL, an ideal camera for cycling with. The bicycle is the Raleigh Maverick with which I replaced the Muddy City in the last photo. I believed it to be have been made by Araya of Japan, the...

32. OneStop Perry Barr 1986 The demolition of Perry Barr Greyhound Track to make way for the One-Stop Shopping Centre. In the foreground is my Muddy City bicycle that Wakelins in Witton Road sold for me to its new owner in Bragg Road, not many yards from here.

31. Wellington Road Perry Barr A few yards from the Crown & Cushion public house. Taken a few days before their demolition.

30. Gas Works Nechells Photographed in the Nechells/Saltley area. If I remember correctly, on the other side of this road was Hallworth's, who sold me a crash helmet when I was a motorcyclist.

29. Flower seller This one was in Colmore Row, almost opposite Snow Hill Station. It's strange to think back to those days and to remember what a friendly place Birmingham seemed to be then, with orderly bus queues and civilised teenage behaviour. Perhaps it's my age ...

28. Erdington flower seller He sold flowers outside Lloyds Bank in Erdington for many years, but his language was less than fragrant when he commented on my photographing him!

27. Courtyard entry This was photographed near Aston Cross and was the entrance to courtyards of back-to-back houses with communal facilities.

26. A typical Birmingham alley Alleyways like these ran behind many terraced houses without their own entries to facilitate deliveries to rear yards. Before sewerage they allowed access to the worker who removed the "night soil."

21. Under Spaghetti Junction from the Electric Avenue road bridge. You can see Phyllis Nicklin's earlier view from a nearby position 22. Under Spaghetti Junction The car may have fallen in the Tame from the piles of vehicles in the scrap yard to the right of the picture.you can see Phyllis...

20. Spaghetti Junction 1979 When the M6 Interchange ("Spaghetti Junction") first opened, the verges were planted with swathes of Lupins in a variety of colours. The following year there were just a few scattered ones, and by the third year they had all disappeared, never to reappear.

18. Paddlers Erdington Paddle boat users at Witton Lakes. More paddle boats on Witton Lakes.

17. Paddle boats Perry Barr Children's paddle boats in Perry Hall Park. They were used in what used to be the moat of Perry Hall, which was demolished to create the park from part of the grounds. The tree- lined streets outside the park were once the drives through the grounds to the house. The...

16. Circus parade Perry Barr 1959 The bear cage trailer.

15. Billy Smart's Parade Perry Barr 1959 I photographed this parade of Billy Smart's Circus vehicles down Birchfield Road around 1959.

13. Constitution Hill 1983 ... at the junction with Summer Lane. 14. Constitution Hill 1983 These are the shops just visible at the extreme left of the last photo.

12.Summer Lane Interesting buildings in Summer Lane near its Constitution Hill junction. Amazingly, they were still there the last time I passed by.

10. Loveday Street This street was in Aston, not far from the city centre. It has disappeared now, at least at the Summer Lane end, as something large and sprawling is being built across it. A closer view of the shop.

9. Gunmakers Arms 1990 Birmingham's Gun Quarter

8. St Martins Place St Martins Place near Digbeth.

6. Grid House Witton 1999 The low building in the right foreground carried an iron plaque with the words "Grid House" upon it. Not long after I took this photograph, just the other side of the bridge from Witton Lock, the building had completely disappeared. This is the view of a bit of...