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I send you all my best wishes for the New Year and hope that things won't be as bad as they have been this year.

Fascinating, it is such a pity that those magnificent Victorian buildings have gone so the city centre has lost that character. Thank you Janet. That has settled my mind on that subject now. During lockdown my mind has pondered on subjects I never had time to ask about when I was a lot...

Janet, unfortunately, I can't. I remember it was packed with people and that the stalls were right next to each other. I seem to remember I wasn't tall enough to look over the top of the stalls but my eyes were rather level with them. I don't remember looking up at the ceiling but remember...

Thank you so much for that map which, I hope, will put everything in perspective but it must be 65 years or so ago since I was that small child. I hadn't realised how far my mother walked me (I'm 70 now). Thank you, MWS.

Well done. For some silly reason as well as being a small child, I thought it was close to the Bull Ring. Where was/is The Old Square because I'm not sure that I know that. Please forget that I said that because I have just come across the map at the top of the page. I see the Minories which...

When I was a small child which would have been from about 1955 (I was born in 1952 and lived in Shirley) my mother used to take me on the bus into Birmingham where we would go to her favourite place to shop - The King's Hall Market. I vaguely remember being taken around the indoor market and...

Thank you, so much. Of course, it does look like a bank being positioned like that on a corner with those windows.

Today I had to go to City Hospital Eye Outpatients for a check up after a cataract operation on Saturday 5th November. While sitting at the traffic lights on the Hagley Road waiting to turn into Monument Road with the Ivy Bush on the right hand side and a building on the corner of the other...

Yes, I assume that AC is alternating current - direct current was rather dangerous to work with I think. It seems that Chamberlain & Hookhams, as well as other companies, laid down the basics for today's manufacturers. That's over a hundred years ago which is amazing.

Thank you for your reply. That's probably about right as he would have been 12 in Sept 1907. My grandfather loved to quote Dickens, Shakespeare and other contemporary writers. He bought me a copy of Palgrave's Golden Treasury when I was about 12 and was always very interested in innovations...

That's a lovely picture of an enormous building. Thank you, Pedrocut.

Yes Lyn, when I have watched Homes under the Hammer I have seen houses that had holes in the roof, bulging walls and damp coming from the roof and rising out of the ground but they are always turned around with anything between £10 and £50,000 depending on the person who takes them on. I...

So, when Central started in September 1897 my grandfather, Frank Gossage, was just 2 years old (he was born 9th Sept 1895). At what age did they start at CSS? At the time he went to CSS he lived in Albert Road, Kings Heath (the provisions and off-licence shop). I hope all goes well for your...

Thank you, Old Mohawk for that. I can see though that the did have back gardens (of varying lengths) which must have been a comfort considering how densely populated those streets are. But I suppose that was their community and from what I hear from other people, the families were very close...

Yes, they would be now but still have done well to stand the test of time. I see that the rest of the area, particularly on the right, is now industrial and a train line weaving its way between the houses and the yards. Thank you for looking that out for me.

Oh, Lyn don't they look sad but must have been sturdy little houses when first built - they stood the test of time even if the look sick in those photos. I presume that White Street was probably similar to Malvern St. Thank you so much for find them, I'm very grateful. That was really what I...

I forgot to ask. Are the houses still there in Malvern and White Streets?

Thank you for the link.