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Next is H Samuel, nothing to note apart form the large clock outside, man with briefcase and umbrella and the women with a fearsome bag.

Yes Janice that's the one I have (birth). I had his railway employment record and the date he absconded fits in with him enlisting in...

I have a wide border in my garden and decided to add a small shrub in the back corner, This border had been dug over last year. My...

Described as "the handsomest hostelry in the Kingdom" in this 1893 advert. Don't really know what "American, French, German and all...

I remember Hunt's jewellery as a shop on Lichfield Road just below Aston Cross on the right towards Salford Bridge. The 'pledge'...

I was on Christmas leave from the army 1964, and worked at the circus, which was there then for 2 weeks.

Loved visiting Bingley Hall in the 1960s, I remember buying a drawing toy called a Spirograph.

Is that the set of plastic wheels and curves with gear teeth on the edges, and holes for a crayon that would draw very complex patterns...

There is a supermarket we use that has a big front lobby, with lots of small traders set up. One of them is a hairdresser, and Julie had...

Hay was often used as floor covering on horse buses and trams, to collect what might be brought in on people's shoes from the roadway...

Joseph Farndale CBE KPM (27 April 1864 – 8 August 1901) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Birmingham Police...

All hand drawn! Was photography not a thing in the 1890s?

Illustrations of exhibitions in the 1890s. Stalls of Birmingham businesses illustrated are: W.E.Powell, Bakers and Confectioners, 267 &...

I had a small leak in my summerhouse (less than a year old ) Phoned a local handyman offered him £200 to refelt it ( I had the...

An aerial view of the Midland and City Arcades from 1938 .... looking somewhat strange, and incongruous with the internal views.