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Is this picture any good at all? From a railway architecture book concerning brickwork. Had to be camera photographed as scanner poorly, but can try again during the week maybe.

A bevy of Father Christmases in 1960-apparently recruited to spread the good spirit amongst the townfolk-appear on one of the MACE mini-videos. Apparently the organisers had no regards for the nationality of their Santas as one is obviously from something like an Indian or Pakistani...

Ah! That explains my theory-or does it? There were two roundabouts in Easy Row-one at each end? One at Broad Street and the other less than a hundred yards away which turned traffic in/out of Great Charles Street?

Excellent photo there Dennis. that would be quite "retro" now! What is the street name to the side, exactly opposite the viewer?

Here's the correct link: www.macearchive.org.uk/Media.html?Title=6397#

Here's the link to the Mark Norton site: www.photobydjnorton.com/InnerRingRoadNorth.html If you go down just a bit to "Congreve Street". On the left is "Withers" newsagent from a different direction. The colour picture on the right is exactly the same spot today, in between the new/old...

Thats the one Dek. Mark Horton has a picture from another angle and the newsagent on the ground floor in the building behind the Ford Anglia is called "Withers".

Elliot-the MACE archive has a video of the Cinerama opening night: www.macearchive.org.uk/Media.htmal?Title=6397# I have a few adverts from the 1960's with the ABC Bristol Road as a Cinerama

Corner of Congreve St/Great Charles Street about to descend towards Snow Hill.

According to J.McKenna in his picture history book, "Birmingham As It Was 1857-1914" (publisher,Birmingham Public Libraries, 1979) Moor= Mole=Mill is the accepted origin except that Mckenna's olde historie word is "Molendum". Copy of the said publication here in Wolverhampton; if you're a...

Dalton Street is still there-all 25 yards of it remaining in the Bulls Street direction. . Runs from opposite the Magistrates to the entry to another multi-storey car park. What we can see is the corner of the Army Recruiting Office on the corner of James Watt Street in the section that used to...

Fortunately-if that is the right word-the late Phyllis Nicklin (www.pbase.com) was able to capture the prescence of the building for us all to appreciate. In 1960 I might not have had the memory power to keep it live today, but in any event its the loss of the education that went with it and...

www.macearchive.org.uk/Media.html?Title=5042# Try that instead folks. A . got missed out somewhere.

A newsreel aerial view of just this very location filmed during the construction of the 1960s Bull Ring (or should I more accurately say "the destruction of the old Market Hall?) has recently been posted on the universities' MACE website. Here's the link to the short feature...

Forumers may well have missed an overnight programme last night(4.30 am today) on BBC Radio 4 where the director of the film Tom Hooper discusses the relevance of the subject to today's politics. Broadcast on the "Politics UK" programme, here is the BBC i-player link:-...

Dennis, i've been waiting to find a category for the following photograph I downloaded some months ago. Its dated 1940 (no precise day or month) of Albert Street and the procedures tram drivers and inspectors had to go through in order to change points at junctions. Maybe due to wayward car...

...and having fought my way through the mis-spelling and wonky archiving smokescreen (allegedly) at the Daily Mirror that the Batmobile would be proud of, here is the said horseless carriage approaching Lewis's in Manchester November 9, 1966.

Link doesn't want to work for me either even though the numbers are correct. Here's the original Skyscraper post:- www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost?p=7019363&postcount=949 Once on that Birmingham Post page you need to look further for the extra sections.

Not from the Evening Mail, but from the morning journal The Birmingham Post feature spotted just yesterday by our compatriots over on Skyscrapercity;- www.birminghampost.net/multimedia/news/images/2011/07/birmingham-s-lost-architectural-treasures-65233-27949509/

Thanks for that Mike. Is there a Holloway Head thread like there is for Summer Lane in which case we can reconstruct the road brick-by-brick maybe? Looking at the original photo and the incline I assumed that the location would be further on down the hill-100 yards possibly but on the same...