Postcard of St. John's Church, dated 5th August, 1904

Re: Janet Cook

Her dad was Fred Pountney, who had a cobblers shop on Monument Road, and I knew her dad well, as he was a mate of my father, we lived in Shakespeare Road.

I came across two old photos of her dad, out somewhere with Dinky and my Mom.  Dad must have taken the photos as his motorbike is in the photographs.

Photographs courtesy of Graham Sullivan

Accident at Spring Hill, March 1949

Information courtesy of Peter Drake, author of "The Inner Circle"

On the 16 March, 1949 an Inner Circle bus passing Monument Road into Icknield Street, was hit by a fire engine and finished up in the non-fiction shelves of Spring Hill Library. This was one of the worst accidents in the history of municipal public transport in Birmingham, with ten passengers being killed. 1041 (CVP 141), a Daimler COG5 of 1937 had its offside lower saloon ripped out in the accident and as a result was scrapped. Here the fire brigade have hosed down the cobbled road surface to wash away the fuel oil which was spilled after the diesel tank in the bus ruptured.

St. John's Church, 1969

United Methodist Church, 1958