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Looks like the book I have been waiting for someone to publish for years is about to be published.... This is the ATV Showbook from Transdiffusion - a 248 page large format book looking at the history of ATV from 1955 - 1982. Cost is £25. You can order one here:-...

Only just realised - one of the buildings I photographed was the old boys school - is this the workhouse crest on the wall I wonder?

Only just realised - one of the buildings I photographed was the old boys school - is this the workhouse crest on the wall I wonder?

Perhaps someone played the dreaded "H&S - Asbestos" card?

Same logic as the Crooked House - just executed in a different way......... once its gone its gone..........

It would have been an ideal exhibit at the Black Country Museum - it was not far from the black country "border" and they are experts at dismantling and rebuilding items like this. But - someone in a suit with a clipboard with a margin on it decided they needed the extra car parking spaces......

Brilliant photos - if you do write a book post #115 photo #16 would be a good cover photo - depicting the hospital "frozen in time" with dilapidation all around it - super lighting!

Agree - super photos and taken with thought and care - not just snapshots.

I've got quite a few - trouble is they all end before that bit of Dudley Road....

Hi Lyn; this map from 1855 shows the workhouse but no infirmary yet:- Anything I can find from earlier always seems to end somewhere around Monument Rd. But I'll keep looking......

I wonder how many of these "time capsules" are left in the Jewellery Quarter? I think Kendricks Printers (which I photographed about 45 years ago and is posted on another thread) has probably long since gone as it was caving in the day I went there. But I guess there must still be the odd room...

Very sad news. RIP Alberta

Super photos Zero! Its so much better when you can get "on-site" as it were rather than shooting over fences with a Daily Mail-type lens!

Nice early this morning - Moon and Mars very close together in hazy early morning sky:- Mars is bottom right. Replaced original with a sharper image.

Looks like a good visit - and not too far from a model shop as well!!

Critter time - any idea what these things are folks - we have loads of them on our runner beans - are they some kind of ladybird?

Internet find - go to the Cofton Collection site at www.coftoncollections.net - enter Birmingham in the search engine and over 150 watermark-free photos and cards are returned - most of which I have not seen before. They are based in Birmingham by the way. Few examples:- Bham police 1920s:-...

Happy Birthday!!!!

I dyed our white enamel bath blue by mixing copper sulphate from my Merit Chemistry kit in it - I was about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.......

Collections Centre open day are also doing guided tours of the Natural History section on the open day (the floors upstairs thar are usually out of bounds). Book now if you want one of those as only 1 of the 3 timeslots had spaces yesterday when I booked our tickets.