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New Hall Valley Country Park is a country park located in New Hall Valley between Walmley and Sutton Coldfield. It is the first new country park in the UK for over a decade. Created with funding raised from the release of land for the New Hall Manor Estate development and formally opened on 29...

New thread about things you can see from your garden but are not actually in your garden! Interesting article on the BBC website yesterday about rare alignment of planets visible (weather permitting) over the next few days:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd4z15r54o So last night I went...

Try this link - takes you to the Daily Herald photo archive held by the Science Museum Group:- https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/collection/daily-herald-archive?q=birmingham Lots of interesting photos here I have not seen before including:- A set from St Andrews in 1932 which...

Found in the middle of 2 boxes of slides I am scanning for a relative:- I am guessing this dates from the late 1960s and was Sugar Puffs equivalent of a sweet cigarette card? Great so long as you owned a slide projector (go straight to Dixons and buy one if you did not......)

Try googling stilltime collection please lyn - see if you can get in that way. Amongst the latest photos I have found on there is this little beauty:-

Edit - this and post #2, #3 and #4 copied to this thread from another. Can someone confirm if these 2 photos were taken on the Snow Hill side of the station please? Photographs are from the wonderful Stilltime Collection website - another little goldmine!!! - a search on "Birmingham" brings...

These photos were on Getty Images and seem to show a day in the life in 1951 of a lady called Betty Burden who, according to the details worked as a hairdresser and lived in somewhere called Back Chapel Court (possibly Back of Chapel Court) in Edgbaston (although it does not look much like...

These are photos from Picture Post found on the Getty Images website - all it says is Birmingham Fair 1959 so not 100% sure of the exact location

Seeing as it is General Election day, here are a few memories of elections (General and local) past:- And - just in case you thought some of the election messages this time went a bit "over the top" - here is a very famous one from before WW1:-

Charity shop find last weekend - 2 good condition Sutton Corporation handbooks for a quid each - the first from 1962-3:- And the second from 1965:- The Mayor's message in the 62-3 edition mentions the proposed swimming baths:- Whilst the 65 edition preface mentions the...

We are going to the Museums Collection Centre Open Day tomorrow and will try to get photos of some of the things that did not get into ThinkTank

Hi Folks; as the 2023 Ashes series is due to get underway this week at Edgbaston, I have dug out my set of negatives from the famous 1981 series (500-1 odds, Willis' 8-43 and of course Ian Botham!). I was fortunate to be present on that incredible day when Botham took 5-1 in 28 balls to win the...

Sutton Coldfield Station was opened in 1862. Originally a terminus, it was "moved slightly to the right" when the through line to Lichfield was opened in 1884. The original station site became a goods yard to the main station, then a Motorail terminal, then finally a car park. This was the...

Cradley Heath Station was originally opened in 1863. The photos here were taken in the late 1970's to mid 1980's before, during and after the station was rebuilt. The platforms were originally staggered - one either of the side of the level crossing and signal box. When it was rebuilt, both...

Sutton Coldfield Town Station sat on the Sutton Park line between Penns and Sutton Park Stations - situated just at the top of the town centre on Midland Drive - see OS map below - Sutton Coldfield station (the one still in use) is top left - Sutton Park station is just off the top of the map:-...

Here are some photos of Blakedown station (on the line from Snow Hill to Kidderminster) from the early 1980's. The station still maintained a lot of its original GWR character, and many items from the GWR era:- The superb platform waiting room:- On the other platform an original GWR...

Here are some photos of Bilston Central station, taken in the early-mid 1980's. This station was on the Snow Hill - Wolverhampton Low Level GWR line, and closed to passenger traffic in 1972. The line still had limited good traffic at the time the photos were taken, and is now part of the Midland...

Here are some photos of Barnt Green Station in the early 1980s. Check the simply wonderful Warwickshire Railways website for the full history of this and all other local stations, together with vintage photos, maps, track plans, etc.

I have a large batch of photos to post of the derelict building of Kendrick and Sons Printers - but first I want to establish their exact location as I cannot remember precisely - I think they were somewhere by the top of Key Hill Drive backing onto Hylton Street?? - can anyone help with a map...

Does anyone know what happened to this shop please - were its contents and/or fittings saved? https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-08041974-chemist-shop