This book charts the development of Erdington from an agricultural hamlet into a busy modern suburb in the city of Birmingham. This superb new collection of over 200 old photographs, many published here for the first time, have been drawn from the Local Studies section of Birmingham Central Library. Accompanied by detailed and informative captions the reader is taken on a tour around Erdington as it used to be, taking in factories, shops, pubs, garages, transport and local people.