historicaldennis
knowlegable brummie
Master brummie has just found me a link with some excellent photos of Temple Court on Temple Row, as well as some other streets around our building, so at last I can show you were we lived. on the 2nd photo, we can just see Temple Court on the right hand edge of the photo, but for a better view of this, go back to page 17 of this forum, and click on master brummies link, and then by clicking on the thumbnails of the photos I have included below you get a far larger view, and can make things out better, which is much more interesting for you. Above the head of the chap crossing the road, you can make out our front door entrance, with the portico for the Conservatory club next door. Unfortunately, the photo does not go quite high enough to show you our flat, which occupied the whole length of the top floor. We had four large rooms up there, and our bedroom, for three lads, was on the corner of needless alley, and outside our window we had a narrow 18 inch balcony, and by climbing out of our window, we could stand on the balcony and look over the cathedral to colmore row, which was very handy when it was carnival time, because we had a wonderful view from up there, and if you remember, the carnival was a proper carnival in the 50's with hundreds of floats all done up beautifully, lots of bands, every student dressed up, silly of course, and it was so long. It started at Victoria square, moved down New Street, along Cooperation st, into Bull st, pass Lewis's and Greys, up to Colmore Row, pass Snow hill station, and back to Victoria square, and when the leading band got back, the end of the carnival had'nt even started, thats how long and big and exciting the carnivals were in these days. And we had two parades, the afternoon at 2.00pm, and then the torch parade around 7.00pm, which was a repeat of the afternoon show, they were so good then, whats happened to making efforts today, carnivals are not the same are they used to be.