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Inside dowding and mills around 1920.

Small heath park(Victoria park) early 1900 s Small heath park lodge and the old pavilions. All around 1900.

Tony’s amusements hurst street October a1940.

The only one at the moment was the picture on message 93. I don’t think it will be to long before some more appear.

This is a really good picture with the golden lion pub in the front.picture &3 are inside St John’s.

This building of 1735 replaced an earlier chapel of 1380. By 1939 it had ceased to be used for worship and its fate was sealed when it was damaged by enemy bombing in 1940. It was demolished in 1947. The Bull Ring Trading Estate now occupies the site. This site has now been passed for rebuilding...

I believe when Substorm flow went down there in 2016 the water was higher . But the areas that date back to 1368 were not accessible then. If you search Substormflow and choose his Birmingham river rea walk you can see how it looked in 2016.

Next to the tunnel you can see the trickle of the river ray . Accessed from one of the old paths now locked .

The team that found them.

Workmen digging up Digbeth to make way for the new West Midlands Metro line have uncovered a secret passage leading to a historic Birmingham pub. Workers uncovered the circular hole when digging up the pavement outside The Old Crown, Birmingham's oldest secular building. Comment made by the...

The tunnel, which dates back to 1368 and leads to Birmingham’s oldest pub the crown, We’re found when work began in 2022 .

I love this view with the big roof of new street station . At the top you see the market.

The lamb and as it was as haywards drapers.

These two maps don’t have dates but we’re a long time apart the first one shows welch end . But not bull street. Then the later one shows corporation street as proposed new road. Very interesting when you look closely at them both.

If you look close at the picture . The sign says union passage so this means it must have gone before I can rember . In the. 1960 all those buildings were new in that part of bull street . I assume it would be were you went across bull street heading towards oasis market.

Wow that looks a lot like my kitchen in dolman street opposite les’s cafe we left in 1971. The times I had a bath in our sink. Because it took to long to warm water for the tin bath. I must admit people called it slums but in my years there it was the safest place I have ever lived. And I’ve...

I was born in 1958 in loveday street . Then taken home to the 3rd house past that tree . We left there as there were 5 kids and we only had 1 bedroom and 1 attack room. But all our neighbours were fantastic. Had the best bonfire down the end of the yard in front of the toilets. I remember the...

Then they demolished and built the rotunda.

Just taken this from 1 of my many Birmingham history books . This section was from Birmingham museum & Art gallery Duddeston Hall and Vauxhall Gardens Once the Holte family had moved to Aston Hall, the manor house at Duddeston was used as a home for the Dowager Lady Holte and the successive...

Duddeston Hall was the medieval moated manor house of the Holte family before their move to Aston Hall in 1631. The site in Hindlow Close may well be the location of 'Dudd's farm' This information is widely known but it would make it a lot older than duddeston house , Devon street . also it...