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Andrew That's very disappointing when people tip. In Worcestershire gateways, fields and footpaths together with canals have the same issue. Some of it is undoubtedly trade waste. I was delighted to see the Harborne line which is a cycle and walkway in Birmingham. Derek

Just started to explore this. There's a lot here including some closed lines. It is scalable like the NLS mapping. https://www.openrailwaymap.org//index.php?style=standard&lat=52.293180116799626&lon=-2.087770957586094&zoom=19&mobile=0 Top right is a box with three horizontal lines - click and...

That's good and I'm happy to hear it. Surveys of British perceptions of accent even among young people tell a different story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjdyj729ro

I suspect that Steven Knight was inspired more by 'The Godfather' rather than social history. I wish him success in making film and TV in Birmingham, but associating the city with violent gangs is unfortunate. I stopped watching at a similar place when it shifted to fantasy. Derek

I was interviewed for a role copywriting and recording adverts on a local radio station and was told firmly that listeners didn't respond to local accents. Years ago, but I'm afraid many are still prejudiced about Birmingham and Black Country accents.

I'm sure everything will have been measured and photographed. MOLA are a respected commercial archaeological contractor. But this is rescue archaeology and the new station will be built on top of the roundhouse site? https://www.hs2.org.uk/building-hs2/archaeology/curzon-street-station-archaeology/

Lyn, I imagine there will be plenty of analysis of the remains for signs of disease and industrial injuries. It is often possible to discover where an individual was born before they came to Birmingham. This could take a long time. I think there were many more buried at Birmingham than initially...

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/preserving-archaeological-remains/appdx5-cs1-curzon-street/ The Round House foundations are reburied. This is intended to be permanent, but should preserve the site. I'll be interested if we learn any more of the 6500 burials in...

Thanks Mike. Appreciated.

The history of photography isn't a development from one person or company, but a synthesis of many knowledges and inventions. I think more of us will have owned a Box Brownie than will have a Lancaster. I've developed 4x5 sheet film in trays in my bathroom and the process demands absolute...

I think that Eastman Kodak might have had something to do with the development of amateur photography. "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest" The Kodak system enabled rolls to be sent away for development or handed to the chemist. Originally the entire camera was returned. With a plate camera...

Mother who lived in Reservoir Terrace always called the tower 'The Observatory.' I have walked past many times over the years, but never been inside. I hope it opens to the public again while I'm still able to manage the stairs! I see it's still on the At Risk register due to damage to the...

The water supply in Smethwick including Bearwood which is close to the Birmingham border is hard and markedly different in taste to the Welsh water now supplied to Birmingham.

As to your family photos Wendy, perhaps you might be very lucky if you make a family tree on say Ancestry and put your photo in the gallery? I have found some family photos this way. If you have older relatives with photos then see if they will pencil names on the back and let you copy them...

'Niphon' seems to be an earlier English form of Nippon - Japan. Japanning metal. The premises of Robert Stroud and Co who made all kinds of tinware and milk churns. http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/metalware/general/stroud.htm I'm pleased that the splendid frontage has a future life.

Birmingham Gazette 26 Mar 1954

Welcome to BHF Wendy! There is a short thread on this photographer who was based in Handsworth and seems to be well known in the Birmingham area. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/taylors-photography.51788/

Thanks Mark. I wasn't suggesting that the booking hall arches are the ones that can be seen in St Chad's rail underpass, just that arches are part of the architecture of the old station building - what remains of it. I'm uncertain of what if anything might remain from 1858? 'In Livery Street...

Thanks Mike. Do you think that the arches might have been open originally to ventilate the space behind then later bricked up?

I meant the ones in the booking hall, which are a different design. I'm guessing the 1969 picture in the street shows ventilation at the top. Did steam engines run the other side of the wall? Or ventilation for the concourse under the glass roof? I wonder if most of the arches in the outside...