Site History
Last Updated : 6 February 2012
To jump directly to any page mentioned below, please use the sitemap| 6/2/2012 |
Added some notes to the Isle of
Man Railways page with thanks to Peter. Also, a couple of
comments from Barry have been added to the Bearwood page in South
Birmingham Businesses. Finally, noted that the Longbridge East
box is no longer standing on the Halesowen Railway Virtual Trip page. |
| 16/1/2012 |
Another long overdue addition -
a page of past and present photographs from South Birmingham has been
added to the Birmingham page. These are photographs taken by my
father coupled with my own modern views. They were first seen in
my first book so if you've got
that, they won't be new to you! Also fixed a couple of broken
links. |
| 28/11/2011 |
A few updates to the Kings Heath
page in South Birmingham Businesses. A visit to a Christmas Fete
at Hazelwell Church provided the opportunity to capture some modern
views of the three Vicarage Road pictures. In addition, Delwyn
was kind enough to get in touch with some family history re the shoe
shop at 50 Poplar Road and provided a splendid view from c.1915. |
| 7/11/2011 |
It's been a stressful couple of
weeks after I received an email from Google saying this site was the
source of malicious software! If you've seen warnings about this,
it was because the server my site lives on was hacked and multiple site
were affected. I can't say that my hosting company was of much
help, but the site has now been moved to a new server so I hope that's
the end of any problems... On a more postive note, today's update sees the addition of an interesting set of pictures of the Isle of Man, located in the Railways section. It features the Manx Electric Railway, The Isle of Man Railway and (to a very limited extent) the Snaefell Mountain Railway. |
| 10/10/2011 |
Sorry for the delay, but I
promise it's been worth the wait! I wanted to publish two new
pages simultaneously as they compliment each other. The first is
a page all about the new Library of Birmingham and that can be found in
the Birmingham Developments section. The second page features a
truly amazing collection of colour
slides of the Victorian Central Library and it is accessible from the
Birmingham section. These pictures come from the Geoff Thompson
Archive. Enjoy! |
| 20/8/2011 |
It's been a while since I
updated the site and that's been because I've been struggling to raise
the enthusiasm to update some old pages rather than add some new
stuff. When the sun shines on a Saturday or Monday (my normal
days for working on the site), I find it hard to be sat on the computer
doing a job I don't really want to do! Anyway, an update to the Halesowen Railway section of the site has been on my to-do list for the last 3 years and I've finally got around to it. Full details are here. |
| 11/7/2011 |
A bit of Liverpool theme
today! Added Liverpool (Lime Street) to the National Stations
page and Liverpool to Other Places. I also managed to identify
the location of the tram at Liverpool that featured on the recently
added Trams Outside Birmingham page. Updated the Highbridge Station and Stonebridge Railway pages thanks to feedback from Dave and Penny respectively. |
| 4/7/2011 |
Added nine modern views of Geoff
Thompson's City Centre pictures accessible from the Birmingham page. Note that I am due to give another of my library talks this month. I will be at Frankley Library at 10:30am on Wednesday July 20th. |
| 4/6/2011 |
It’s several years since I
declared the Trams and Buses section complete. However, the
existence of three pictures of trams that hadn’t made it to the site
kept niggling at the back of my mind. So, finally, the pictures
from Liverpool and Llandudno have been added to that section. Also added some notes about signalling to the Highbridge Station page – thanks to Dave for getting in touch. |
| 16/5/2011 |
If you are a regular visitor to
this page, please accept my apologies for the lack of updates
recently. More DIY jobs have once again robbed me of my spare
time. In addition, the great weather in April and early May had
to be enjoyed as it could well have been this years summer! I've updated the Weoley Castle page in South Birmingham Businesses with some comments from John re a 'tornado' in the late 1960s. If you remember the incident, please get in touch. Also updated the Saltley and Perry Barr station notes in Local Stations P-Z with some memories from Harry. Finally, some new stuff at last. Highbridge Station has been added to the National Stations page. |
| 18/4/2011 |
A brief page about the return of
the statue of King Edward VII to the city centre has been added to the
Birmingham Developments page. |
| 4/4/2011 |
A few updates today. I
have archived the site history again as it was getting rather
large. The last three years history can now be found here. Updated the Ledbury By Night page with some feedback from Stephen and Chris. Also updated the Longbridge page in South Birmingham Businesses as 1563 Bristol Road South has been demolished (thanks to Steve and Elizabeth on the Northfield Past Facebook group for helping with the date of that). Also in South Birmingham Businesses, one more modern view has been added to Selly Oak for Strathdene Road. Only one more left to do! Some good news on 'Birmingham Past & Present: In My Father's Footsteps'. It's back in print but the latest run is only 100 copies so snap one up while you can if you want one! The publishers have said they will do future runs of as little as 30-50 copies but that can't go on forever as the book will be five years old in December so the 'Present' pictures are already looking more 'Past'... Finally, a long overdue addition for the rail fans. Tamworth Station is added to the Midland Area Stations section |
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