by Andrew Gill | Aug 4, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus, Transport
This is Nechells in central Birmingham. The photographer captioned this photograph ‘the last horse bus’ and dated it 1906. By that time, horse buses in major towns and cities had been replaced by steam and electric trams and motor buses. Horses were still... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 26, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This is the City Arcade in Birmingham. Built in 1898, it was originally much larger than it is today but part of it was destroyed in a WW2 air-raid and never rebuilt. There is an elegance to Victorian arcades that eludes their modern counterparts, our mega-malls.... 