Search results

An aerial view from 1948. it looks like some of the houses on the left-hand side of the court have already gone. I can find no records of bombing in that area.

L-R: 207 King Edward's Road, Nos' 64-70 then 72 (seems to be 1 house too may though). EDIT: House on far left must form part of No. 207 King Edward's Road. Mrs. J. Farmer (grocer).

Looks like St. Marks Street to me.

There's another thread too Lyn and amazingly that received no replies either. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/goodalls-confectioners-tobacconist.2829/

One of my favourite images is the one in Newtownrow where they are repairing the walls of the brook underneath the main road.

Can you imagine the frantic building activity in Birmingham in the late Victorian era, must have been incredible, it makes you wonder where they sourced all the building materials.

This is available at NLS but I only came across it through Google. https://maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/11843

I was thinking that the one shown set back was the Summer Hill (Primitive Wesleyan) Chapel that had been demolished. To be honest I think I've fried my brains trying to get my head around it all.

The 1873 map i have just posted on the Icknield Street thread seems to show the position of the chapel as suggested by Mike.

An 1873 map showing East and West Icknield Street and Monument Lane.

This is 1933, mentions social club.

I did this list, tracing names and numbers across the years, in 1883 it was a vaccination centre.

I've spent the last hour trying to work out how the numbering changed on Icknield Street but no joy. The map in post #11 is very similar to that in post #7 in which case #158 should have become #398.

I'm not sure I've got it right in post #2, it would need to be #398. I'm sure Janice has the right building. On the house #158 it says 'adult school social club'.

Could this be it in 1888? although it's off the end of icknield street and actually on Monument Road. It does say Wesleyan.

The Victorian back2backs were still around into the 60s/70s. I have never come across any data like that as they were dotted all over Birmingham and not confined to any particular area. On the NLS maps they are typified by this arrangement.

A clear aerial view of Aston Hall Road School (1951).

Hi Ben, this is the link, if you register (it's free) you can zoom in on the map. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW045932

It was my uncle also that introduced me to the joys of photography, I still have his bellows camera. There would be no photos of me as a child if he hadn't been there to take them. What a trusting uncle you had, I only ever saw a Leica in the camera shop window on Aston Cross.

A time when photography was tremendously exciting, interesting and rewarding. Waiting for your transparencies or print films to be returned and hoping that there would be some good shots amongst them. It's a shame that so many of the the digital images captured now are destined to be lost.