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Ghost signs of Birmingham

I keep walking past this passage next to that building with a fire escape to the back, if that's it?

This view on Google Maps Street View.

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While trying to see what 16 Waterloo street was now I spotted this at the top of a building in Bennetts Hill (I think).
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nice one jan..i wonder if wellington and waterloo have any connection to nelson...good chance i would think..
 
The Co-op was at no 90 Colmore Row in 1932 Kellys , but number not listed in 1921 or 1923 edition. It was the Coop in the 1958 edition, but the Leicester Temperance Building Society in 1961
 
I think that passageway in the photo if I'm correct runs off Colmore Row, at the bottom to the right is the back entry into the Wellington pub, to the left is the stairs up to the outside balcony area of the Joint Stock pub. I've done this trip from one pub to the other many times.
I didn't know it was called Wellington Passage though. Am I in the correct place, I think I am.
 
I can confirm that Wellington Passage does take you to the back entrance to the Wellie in Bennett's Hill. Had not realised that the passage also took you to the back entrance to the Old Joint Stock.

The Co-operative Permanent Building Society became the Nationwide Building Society in 1970 when it was thought that home ownership did not accord with the socialist ideals of the Co-operative movement. (I am not making a political comment, I am just relating what was said at the time!)
 
While looking for info on Fussell and Drury factories, noticed this in Hinkley Street. I don’t think it has been posted before?

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Don't you mean yes it is Mike. It is still a cinema isn't it.
Was it previously known as the Jacey news cinema showing cartoons, particularly Looney Tunes,
That's al folks, or am I in the wrong area.
 
Vivienne14 said:
The Golden Cross on the corner of Lichfield Road and Rocky Lane (Aston). No longer a pub, but some tell-tale signs of its history remain, including the ‘cross’ design in several of the window glasses and a number of ornamental crosses in the gables. Surprising that this and the short row of buildings along Lichfield Road has survived whilst the surrounding area was decimated in the name of progress. Viv.

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this pub dates to late 1700s am sure or early 1800s lovely building
 
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