| West Midlands March 2010 Just a few pictures of some of the buildings we saw on the City Safari in the Black Country. Researched and led by Sue Hayton |
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Queens Building, Wolverhampton, designed by Edward Banks in the Italianate style (1849) |
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The site of England's first automatic traffic lights (1927) in Princes Square |
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Former Post Office, Lichfield Street (1895) |
| Detail on Royal London Insurance Building, Lichfield Street (1902) |
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Art Gallery, by J.A.Chatwin of Birmingham (1883-5) |
| Lloyds building, Chatwin again (1878) |
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| Chubb Lock Works, C. H. M. Mileham of London (1898-9) |
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The low level station GWR, on ther route from London to Birkenhead via Birmingham. The most northerly broad gauge station on the network |
| Cheese & Butter warehouse on the BCN main line |
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Chillington Wharf, built by the Chillington Iron company linking their foundry via tramway to the canal. After 1885 bought by the LNWR which allowed transfer of goods between canal and rail. |
| S J Dixon & Son, Cleveland Road, by a local firm of builders, Bradney Co (1885) |
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James Baker's Boot Factory, Cleveland Road (1898) |
| 33 Market Place, Willenhall a former maltster's house |
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Josiah Parkes & Sons Ltd, Lock and Key manufacturers, Union Works, Willenhall (1933) |
| Lockmakers' workshops Willenhall |
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Brook's Saddle Works, Leicester Street, Walsall (1890-91) |
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| (Above) Biblical frieze from Taylor's Music shop, Walsall | |
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Ravenscraig Works, Walsall BOAK is the Scottish family which originally owned the building |
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(The former) Harthills Cycle shop, Bilston |
| Bilston Technical School |
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Kenrick & Jefferson Offices, West Bromwich |
| Frieze on the Ryland Memorial School, West Bromwich |
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