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Took a few twilight photos in Key Hill on Sunday - this is the Gem Buildings where I worked as a teenager dyeing dart flights:- Post Office Building is next door - still with wonderful George V stonework:-

Taken on Sunday in near darkness - side of the building that was on the left hand side of the Duke of York pub, corner of Hockley Hill and Key Hill:-

Brilliant article - thank you for posting it!

At least it is good to see the tunnels I posted so may sad and derelict photos of in other threads now back in busy use:- This the other end of the tunnels at Jewellery Quarter:- Relics here too - painted white wall behind where semaphore signals used to be, so they stood out:-

A few recent shots of Snow Hill Station and sidings taken from Livery St and St Pauls Metro Station:- Looks VERY different now to when I photographed it in the 70's /80's - but at least it is still there. AND - relics may still be there - for example is this a piece of tramway overhead...

Some of the same buses and location - this time from the 1980s:-

Hi Lyn; Yup - all the local buses were there last summer:- And the bus stop signs too!!!

I got the link to work but could not go anywhere else on what looks like a VERY interesting site. Wonder if you have to be a member?

I drove one of my daughters to a Xmas party in the city centre a few weeks ago. After the satnav took us up a dead end (roadworks) by Baskerville House, I told her "I know exactly where we want to go, but have not got the faintest idea of how to get us there"..... If you go that way I recommend...

It was Henrys department store before it WH Smiths had it

Amongst Nigel Hadlow's photos are this set from Penns Station in Walmley taken by the look of it not long after closure in the mid-1960s:- Sadly nothing remains of the station buildings today, but the remains of the platforms are still in situ:-

On the plus side there has been a very sympathetic repair made to the retaining wall above where the station entrance was - they have gone the "extra mile" to match both the bricks and the pattern as well as possible:-

Got a few more photos in the rain on Saturday - unfortunately I could not get into the site so had to rely on telephoto lens:- There is now scaffolding in front of the first open doorway:- Detail of some of the remaining white glazed brickwork:- Rusting drainpipes embedded in the wall:-...

And then try searching on this:- This gentleman has a vast collection of photos taken in the 50's and 60's before, during and after Beeching - not all West Midlands - the Selly Oak ones above are his. All full screen and good resolution.

If you have not already got the kit - they did re-issue the 1970's Airfix 1:24 Hurricane kit as a Vintage Classic a while ago (I assume your Spitfire is one of the new kits based on the detailing). Parabellum in Vyse St Hockley may have one - worth a visit if only to answer the question "how...

Super job on this - it is model show quality!!!

I think hobbies can best be summed up by the legend on one of Arthur Ward's wonderful Airfix books:-

Used to turn up at various 8mm film conventions I went to - lovely man!

Photos of Selly Oak Station - guessing 1950s:-