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Tinpot this is great also, i dont know about a drydock, seems a bit of an awkward place to manouver a boat in to, maybe a loading area for carriages or wagons, looks like maybe a ramp down to it

Viv this is great, i love to see the old uses for buildings, i may find the old footings or walls for some of these

Mikejee That has answered a few questions, it looks as though fellows used the whole area for a time, leasing it from the grand junction company (number 1), before building their own warehouse in 1935 (number 4) it seems numbers 4 and 5 are mixed up in the index

Im wondering did fellows morton and clayton use warwick wharf or did they build and use their own basin?? The fellows building is not yet built on this picture

Thats the area i'd like to see more of yes, that basin, and how far towards fazeley street it went

Any pictures of fellows morton and clayton basin after 1935??

Work has begun on excavating where that car park was, that whole area is now cleared and ready for stripping, lots of cobbles

The banana warehouse is staying, so im interested in the whole area around the warehouse right up to fazeley street and right across to and including the fellows morton and clayton building, these areas we will be digging and uncovering what was there before

Yes the blue dot will be getting exposed in the future but we are redeveloping the whole site, In your picture with the blue dot, we are basically uncovering everything that is concrete that you see, a large area We have already started, roughly from the middle of the site outwards There are...

Im led to believe the fruit warehouse as it is was built in 1840 although it looks like it had many joining buildings that are now gone, i may find evidence of old buildings as we strip all of the concrete that covers the site now, im interested in the positions of the old basins especially...

Very interested to find the old functions of the buildings attatched to our banana/ fruit warehouse, this area was then known as warwick wharf

Some maps i have found so far, seems our banana warehouse had another wharf behind any some adjoining buildings, these maps are also before fellows morton and clayton built their premises next door

The address is quite a muddle, junction works, minerva works, warwick wharf, warwick bar, 106/170 fazeley street and all in between, fazeley industrial estate, lots of diffrtent buildings and addresses to find info on

We are only starting but i think this dig is going to be very interesting, LOTS of old cobblestones being dug up, and old footings of buildings, then we have various old filled in canal basins to find, if anybody wants some cobblestones then let me know

Would be very interested in the buildings on the banana warehouse site before the building that stands now

Lots of herons around daily, quite loud and make me jump sometimes when i dont see it coming over

Hi all, i havnt sorted uploading my pictures yet but i will soon, i have been trying to source old os maps and/or old pictures of the area, i will basically be digging up around the whole site pictured, around the juction works, banana warehouse, and the old fellows morton and clayton basin, all...

Yes, i will have to get a smaller camera

Struggling to upload my pictures

Im sean, im a digger driver from birmingham that likes my history, last year i was working on the beorma quarter, some may remember me Well from today i am working on the old banana warehouse as it becomes part of the new bbc complex Some very interesting old bits of archaeology here, lovely old...