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Here are some more from the vehicle hall:- Steam Road Roller Austin Atlantic Coupe Pantographic Metal Rule Engraver Kemps Dental Products Birmingham Singer 10 H.P. Coupe Not sure on this one Lovely pattenated window on an old Ford car Clement Panhard aka Sterling Dog Cart 1904...

And some more:- Direct from Aston Cross RAMC Badge Microscopes Old Style Cadbury Chocolate Bars Now into the Vehicle Hall:- Mystery motorbikes on the shelf Er - yes............ Diesel Engine Turbo Prop Engine

More from the small objects cages:- Morse code "tappers" Tribal Masks Coronet Stereoscopic Camera - direct from Summer Lane! Tram tickets and BCT ticket rack Glove Puppets

More tin plate toys:- Model Tangye Engine Clockfaces Back to the stuffed animals:- Thats all for now - will post more tonight!

Staying in the cages - most of these had no labels:-

The next set are all in locked cages fronted with metal grills - hence the odd shadows here and there:- Tin plate toys Steel Helmet - possibly with Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals) crest on it? Ancient Egyptian Relics

Here are some more:- Childs pram and sectioned Austin car engine Decorators hand cart and knitting machine Typographic Compositing Machine (used for newspapers, books, etc) Turning Lathe - wonder how many of these were in factories in Birmingham? Miscellaneous Items Section

Here we go..........apologies if some images look a little dark but the lighting is not the best and you cannot use flash:- Gloucester Bow or Ship Wagon from Lichfield Anderson Shelter Assorted Sculptures and Carvings Music Box and Ornate Chair Gas Lantern from a station used by the...

Went to this years Collection Centre open day yesterday - attendance sadly much lower than in previous years, almost certainly due to the £11 admission charge now imposed by our bankrupt council. Thanks to the wonderful staff there who went out of their way to help and advise. I've tried to...

This is where the council SHOULD be stepping in and telling the developers they will not get planning permission for a new apartment block (which the markets area does not need) and that the markets building HAS to stay. Question is of course - when was this piece of land sold in the first...

Happy Birthday!!!

Bet there is a "sell off of land" in here somewhere to go into the councils "pay off our debts" fund.........

Super pictures!! Thanks for posting them!

The site of the colliery can be seen in this old photo taken from the Hawthorns Halt I think - it is in the middle of the line split (left to Stourbridge, right to Wolverhampton):- On these photos I took in the late 1970s the colliery would have been on the right:- These days the site is...

Answer to my own question is yes - I have glued your 1937 map to one I had of the station from the same time (probably the next bit of the same map):- Just trying to place the colliery in my own mind - sorry!!!

Mike - for the Smethwick maps - is the rail fork on the right the site of Hawthorns Halt Station - this would not appear until the 1930's as that is when it opened?

Well done Geoff! Excellent detective work!!!!! You would win the award (if we had one!) Can you lick/scan and post the whole article please? Interestingly the photo on the cover is not one of the ones I could find on Getty Images.

Well found Pedrocut! The Edgbaston and hairdresser bits tie in with the picture captions anyway - perhaps the whole photoshoot was part of the competition prize? I think the photos with the Midland Red bus stop in them were taken in Paradise St as you can just about see the Town Hall and...

Perhaps someone who has access to old newspaper / magazine archives can look up Picture Post from 1951? Sorry I do not have any more info..... Location wise this one may give a clue as there is some sort of a chapel in the background by the looks of it:- And she also seems to live on the top...