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Hi Paul, Was that the Newsagents near the Junction of Jiggins Lane and Genners Lane? - Run by a Mr Webb? (I think).

Pretty sure that KEFW Grammar had Saturday morning attendance into the 1960s. Edit - Just checked through to someone who was there from '61 and he says they didn't have Saturday attendance then. I had a distinct memory of expecting to have to go to school on a Saturday when I started at KEFW in...

They are very much still there, visible for miles around. There are two hangars right next to each other. It had been planned to operate both the private-industry R100 (built by Vickers) and the state-sponsored R101 (essentially a reverse-engineered WW1 German Zeppelin design built for the...

Could it have been Bert Evans? - His story is at these links... https://blesma.org/about-us/obituaries/bert-evans-obituary/ https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/war-hero-bert-evans--6169807

It was the 2nd (Regular) Battalion that suffered at the Wormhoudt massacre, The remains of the Battalion were evacuated through Dunkirk. The 7th and 8th Territorial Battalions also fought in Northern France and were evacuated through Dunkirk.

They probably did. The 12th Bn of the Royal Warwicks was a "Garrison" battalion made up of older soldiers, many of whom had seen service in the closing stages of WWI (you can see from the photo that they look a bit older). They were used to guard depots and lines of communication in France. The...

Gillott Road in Edgbaston /Rotton Park is a very long road with a fascinating mix of houses, some late Victorian with very elaborate stonework on lintels and window arches. Gillott Road 85-87 Church Villas (part of the plaque is missing because of a new window. The building is opposite Christ...

Very festive! And appropriate for this time of year. Happy Christmas!

As Alberta said, most large hospitals were paid for by charity. It was a very different dynamic than nowadays, Hospitals were seen to be places for poor people. The rich would be treated at home. Even minor surgery would be done at home. If they did go into hospital for major surgery the rich...

Please, whatever you do, don't make it graffiti! - a less appropriate place for graffiti would be hard to find. Murals have a sad history in Birmingham, they tend to last only a few years or be moved. Hated when they are first put up and then wistfully remembered in nostalgia a few years after...

Cheers, A couple of them have do have bus-stops on them.:)

The area centred on Weoley Castle Square, bounded by Alwold Road in the North, Castle Road in the East, Shenley Fields Road in the South and Shenley Lane dual-carriageway in the West, has a number of traffic "islands" with the main roads cutting through the middle of them. For example, the one...

Looking it up - The house once belonged to John Reynolds, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and had a huge telescope in the garden. See the third page of this article... https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2011AntAs...5...36M Looking at an aerial view on Google it looks like the dome...

Looks to be still standing and is a listed building - 32 AND 32A, ST MARY'S ROAD B17 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343112 And on Google Streetview...

For completeness, here's a list of the remaining plaques on Hillaries Road, Gravelly Hill. HILLARIES ROAD 24-26 ********* Cottages (unreadable) 44-46 Venmore Villas 110-112 Prospect Villas 116-118 Mayfield Villas 120-122 Fairview Villas 131-133 Boscombe Villas Two nearby roads... HINTON...

Agreed, It's going to be either just to the South of the River Tame - maybe around where Village Road is now, or just the other side of the river where the Aston Villa Academy is now. That area was built over even in the oldest map I can find. (1830). There was a Witton Farm along that line of...

I see from doing an image search that it was published in the 6th Feb 1954 edition of "Picture Post" magazine to illustrate an article called "The Best and Worst of British Cities".

Wow! what a brilliant photo! Well done Mark!- It's the corner where Cafe Nero is now. The lampost looks to still be there (the further one in the modern picture below), although the stone post has long gone. The photographer must have got down on their knees to frame the shot.

It's not what you're looking for, but it is Birmingham, and it is "Brief Encounter"... A stunt to advertise the Brief Encounter play that was on at the time...

Yep, think you've nailed it there!:) Well done!