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Some streets such as Pickford Street seen to retain the setts in the road. They may be made of granite or Rowley Rag and it would be of interest to discover that other members think of their use and how they were cut to the same regular size.

H S 2 archeology have found a number of important sites as well as excavating burial grounds. The Curzon Street Roundhouse remains an important railway find but there were, or still are, other examples of railway archeology which they should have looked at, but then cost and other factors as to...

The making of leather was a long established process where bark was used in the tanning process of hides. Birmingham had an area beside the Rea at Digbeth where tanning was conducted and later there were tanneries in Birmingham for leather making. Walsall became an important centre for leather...

As to Moor Street what makes this an interesting railway survivor is the concrete support. The bricks supported the more substantial overhead structures. The build was about 1913 when the goods shed upper and A and B sheds (lower) were in the process of construction. The concrete was...

Olton station was originally two tracks, but then the railway was widened towards Olton with four tracks and widened beyond Olton to Lapworth when the present arrangement of four platforms was made and the original booking office reconstructed as the top image shows. The modern view is more...

Yes that is true. The LNWR stable block in Curzon Street was listed, I recall, but that did not prevent the building of Millenium Point and heritage seems to have little value at the present. For example, I do wonder what is the reason for the move of Walsall Leather Museum from Littleton Street.

The trams started running from Edgbaston to St Georges on Monday 29th 2025 on a temporary time table until Saturday 18th 2025.

When we did the RCHS Walk around Birmingham on Saturday 11th October we had a look at the entrance to Moor Street Car Park from, Alison Street. That was was the site of the B Goods shed and roof support there have brick and reinforced concrete from the build of the goods shed. Should they be listed?

Thanks I was trying to recall the earlier date of the BBC program. Yet it still does not explain what was missed by Alice Roberts and Yasmin Khan And they did their program with a part recorded in the Shakespeare Room of Birmingham Library instead of being with the other researchers on Floor 4...

The channel PBS last week broadcast a 3 part series on the HS 2 dig which included details of the Park Street excavations but made no mentions of the removal of bodies with the railway extensions in to New Street (1848) and the widening of the railway in the 1890's. It did not mention the act...

It is a very useful image which seems to be close to what could be seen post 1859. The station hotel and extension are shown and the goods sheds are shown. These replaced the original LBR station arrival and departure platforms. There seems to be an engine with coaches next to the goods shed and...

There was a time when buses used roads now converted to the metro or as pedestrian routes, or in this second case, sadly, the high speed electric bike raceway, In this image the 59 is seen coming round from Colmore Row past the Town Hall and into the top of New Street.

Whilst still awaiting the tram commencing the site has become more accessible And when it opens it will be a short walk to a real ale pub, the Woodman

Sometimes a view of steam and smoke is enough

County boundaries I send this note from Stechford which was in Worcestershire and across the Cole near me was Warwickshire. I went to Handsworth Grammar School which was in Staffordshire And then there were parts of Oldbury in Shropshire It was all very complicated for the Railway Builders who...

The issue of finding dates is complicated by factors that Pedrocut has highlighted. West Midlands Railway Chronology was dealt with in a chronology published by the Stephenson Society and compiled by Charles Clinker from many sources. Yet with the advent of better access to Newspapers on line...

The Leeds and Selby, opened September 22nd 1834 was also integrated with others it was leased to the York and North midland Railway on April 6th 1841, and purchased by them on May 23rd 1844 and it became part of the North Eastern Railway network in 1855. Warrington & Newton became part of the...

The Canterbury & Whitstable Railway had inclines along a part of their route. The Liverpool & Manchester had a incline to Crown Street Station and the Docks and the passenger locomotive service was from Edge Hill. When Lime Street opened in Liverpool the line was also worked by a stationary...

As the opening of the Stockton and Darlington is approached in September, Network Rail has been busy in promoting the 200th anniversary and around stations such as Birmingham New Street it is hard not to miss the adverts there. It marks an important event when the railway was opened inaugurally...

The Birmingham Mail has reported the testing of trams along the short new length to Millenium Point and Eastside Park and so it will be of interest to see when this section will be open As reproduced from the Birmingham Mail 06/08/2025