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When we were kids, we would watch the yard men sorting and crushing the scrap metal bought in by the dust lorries. old bike frames and everything they collected. They had a crushing machine that squashed it all into solid blocks. There was another crushing machine in the building that crushed...

I think you could be right. I remember this one when the Distructor or Salvage yard was still operating. The towing patch used to run down both side of the canal here, but in recent years you have to use the Brookvale Road as the turnover to cross to the opposite side now. This is all overgrown.

Thats a cracking photo Lyn. I recon he is repairing a staircase. I can make out the newel post, stringers and treads and risers. There is a carpenters mallet on the floor by him

Follow-up post – New discoveries about Keith Berry Since posting the original salvage of Keith Berry's photo collection, I've uncovered a little more information about Keith himself, his equipment, and his working methods. I wanted to share this as an update to keep the conversation going — and...

The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Keith Berry left us 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. How many photos Keith took...

Ok so I have now posted all of the Keith Berry photo collection I was able to salvage. There are most likely to be others, so if anyone can add new material to this collection, please do post them in the relevant thread. If possible, please send me an un-resized copy so I can add it to the...

14. Old Shop 1969

13. Old Shop 1969

12.Unknown cul-de-sac

11. Street under demolition Suggestions were George St, Lozells, circa 77/78 halfway between John St and Wills St, looking down towards the Angel public house

10. Canal Bank

9. Unknown Wall Someone commented I think this used to be a terraced property opposite my house in Mount Pleasant in Small Heath between 1970-1972. They knocked them down around this time.

8. Unknown street Someone commented Not in Birmingham - it's those concrete lampposts and sodium lamps that give it away again

7. Derelict maisonette Another view.

6. Derelict maisonette We've lost so much interesting looking housing to these bland and boring things that it's rather nice to see them getting their own come-uppance! Someone commented I think you will find its miller lighting in astonbrook st. Someone else commented I think these are the...

5. CHD 1970s Somwhere in Handsworth perhaps Someone commented CHD My guess is City Housing Department

4. Overgrown Gardens 1960s Somewhere in Handsworth perhaps. Someone commented I think this is a picture of Holland St. in the middle of Sutton Coldfield,top of the Parade going towards Maney. I think one of the houses used to be the School clinic in the 1950's early 1960's

3. Old Factory 1958 I've tried hard without success to remember where this was, but as I used to walk home from Newhall Street through parts of Hockley, Newtown and Handsworth, I have to assume that it was somewhere in that area.

2. Unknown Gates Closer view of same gates.

1. Unknown Gates. Keith Berry thought this could be in Walsall