Across Birmingham on the 29A

The 29A bus route ran through the middle of Birmingham, from one edge of the city to the other. From Pheasey and Kingstanding to the north of the city, it went all the way to Hall Green, right on the border with Solihull to the south, and in fact the buses passed through Solihull as they went round to run back north. Although focusing on the 29A, this book will also cover associated and replacement routes such as the 30, 33, 90 and 91. David Harvey shows this cross-section of Birmingham from the introduction of the service in 1928 to its replacement in the days of the West Midlands PTE, which began work in 1969. This was a period of great change in Birmingham, from the massive expansion of council housing following the First World War to redevelopment in the 1950s and 1960s, and it is all illustrated here.