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2. Allison Street Just off Digbeth, Allison Street ha (has?) organisations intent on improving the environment and way of life of the city, including Friends of the Earth (the central building shown here) and Pushbikes. There was, I remember, a secure parking facility for the bicycles of...

1. The Old Grammar School Kings Norton, Birmingham This former Grammar School at Kings Norton recently (2004) won a cash award from a TV programme to pay for renovation, though it's been said that the previous year's winners have yet to see the money!

The Keith Berry Photo Archive A selection of his scanned photographs and slides together with his accompanying notes taken between the 1960s and 1990s, in and around Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Smethwick, West Bromwich and Walsall. Old Birmingham Page 9

I may have as we were always exploring there and do recall the sandy beach on one side under the bridge. The problem was the river was very polluted and quite smelly. My friend fell in just by where that picture was taken and did, he pong or what.

48. The Old Grammar School Kings Norton, Birmingham Some of Birmingham's very few still surviving halftimbered buildings.

47. Sheds/wash houses Harborne

46. Serpentine Road

45. Harborne

43. Bearwood Road near its junction with Sandon Road. 44. Bearwood Road The reverse view of the previous photo. The junction with Three Shires Oak Road and "The Bear" public house are visible.

41. Piccadilly Arcade entrance in Navigation Street. We used to call this junction 'Hornton's Corner.' 42. Piccadilly Arcade entrance ... a closer view.

40. Livery Street Viewed from Colmore Row. The original length of this street is reflected in the phrase "with a face as long as Livery Street." It was much longer before it was cut through by the Queensway. (I read somewhere that City Road is Birmingham's longest street.)

39. Colmore Row Looking towards Bull Street.

38. Evening Mail vendor Outside the premises of Edward Grey in Bull Street before it became Debenham's

35. Bull Ring market

34. Bull Ring

33. The old Bull Ring This was at the time of the open Market Hall, visible at the extreme right, because WWII bombing had left it roofless. Cranes stand ominously on the skyline; the construction of slabs of architectural ugliness was doubtless imminent.

32. New Street

31. Christmas illuminations This is New Street looking towards its junction with Corporation Street. Note the old bus stops - large, legible and informative, unlike today's. It was very quiet at night then; the drink sodden nightlife hadn't begun.

30. Lewis's illuminations A much missed store, Lewis's, where my second job after leaving school was as a trainee chef on their sixth floor - for a day and a half, when I caught 'flu and Lewis's sat me in a wheelchair, took me down the goods lift and sent me home in a taxi. After I recovered, I...

29. Martineau Street at night. To the right is Martineau Way and Gratispool, where I used to work