Keywords: The Old Selly Oak.jpg Old oak tree at Selly Oak with the Oak Inn in the background and the chimney of the Birmingham Battery bellowing smoke in the distance Images of this postcard have appeared in the following publications Marks John Birmingham on Old Postcards Reflections of a Bygone Age Keyworth 1982 p 28 image No 121; Dowling Geoff et al Selly Oak Past and Present A Photographic Survey of a Birmingham Suburb Department of Geography University of Birmingham 1987 cover image; Butler Joanne et al Selly Oak and Selly Park Images of England Series Tempus Publishing Ltd Stroud 2005 frontispiece image Image of an old photograph first published as a postcard digital copy taken from Butler Joanne et al Selly Oak and Selly Park frontispiece image circa 1908 Author PD-old PD-US Old Selly Oak Postcards of Birmingham |