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Not a tall building on the skyline! Just the council house...

https://archive.org/details/developmentofbir00hayw A really interesting read on the various plans to develop the city, predominantly the city centre. Look at the names and titles of those who approved it, not likely to get that level of endorsement on any equivalent planning document today! You...

Re: the peaky blinders i thought it was reasonable but was hoping for at least a bit of CGI to show landmarks...council house scene maybe? No idea the exterior building they used for the police HQ? presume it was supposed to be Steelhouse Lane (guessing it was somewhere in London?) The other...

my mum marion went to st peters school (from 1952) and attended church there. her maiden name was wallin and they lived on garbutt street. her brother kevin was seven years her junior. i wonder if any of you remember the name.

the passage is alive and well, it runs along the canal and back onto summer lane, know it well.

i remember my dad taking me and my sister to a park somewhere in south (east?) birmingham 20 years ago, saying that he was brought up in a pre-fab that had long since gone, although the road running up the middle of the open space in the park remained....i remember there were a few slides and...

peter, the plans for the civic centre that you mentioned, was this the square surrounded by four civic buildings with baskerville house as the only one of the four that was constructed?

my mum still has her first school satchel purchased from the kings hall market hall in 1951 ish

such a shame these buildings havent survived

camp hill flyover i remember going over it in the back of my dads mini van!! not a nice feeling when you cant see where you are going, or have been! i could never work out its purpose!! found a more recent picture of it from the other end... https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/107162

i know my mum went to st peters school and the church and lived in a back to back very close by, will have to report back on that

i know that the city had plans to redevelop the now old bull ring of the 60's during the 80's but with the recession these were never realised, until of course the 1999 demolition and subsequent new centre we now have. does anyone have any graphics or impressions of what potential 1980's...