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Toll Houses and Toll Gates Birmingham and nearby

Stupid parking tickets even then. I hope they were able to claim it back from the Corporation.

Maurice
 
Hard to believe this one, but it’s Edgbaston toll gate, pre- Five Ways. The gate was removed in 1841. The gates barred, what is now, Islington Row and Broad Street. Viv

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And here’s a photo at least 150 years later of the toll house at Quinton. Significant differences as time has shifted from the painting; the shutters have gone from the lower windows, as has the board with toll charges, there’s no longer a lamp over the door and gates are no longer necessary. And of course the horse and carriage has given way to 4 wheeled vehicles.

Looks like someone took the corner too quickly and took chunk out of that wall to the right ! Viv.

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this photo is taken at the top of soho hill looking down villa road the shops on the right are all still there except for the large one on the corner..while researching something else and needing a map i did not know that those buildings were called tollgate buildings obviously because there was a tollgate there back in the day..we never stop learning but that is what the forum is all about

lyn

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As well as gates at Deritend Bridge and Bradford Street, there were gates at Cheapside, Moseley Street, Watery Lane and Fazeley Street.

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I have merged two threads into this one - one about Toll Houses and one about Toll Gates - into this one thread. And I've moved posts about Canal Toll Houses and Points to the thread link below

R

Post in thread 'Canal toll houses and points'

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“These octagonal toll houses situated on small islands were to be found in many places on the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Because the journeys over this network were much shorter, plus the fact that there were many arms and branches, there were a lot of toll collecting points to ensure that each boat paid adequately for the length of its trip and its cargo. George Arnold with his horse Betty, stops his boat loaded with dry slack at Bromford Stop for gauging and toll paying some time in 1958. George Arnold worked for Ernest Thomas of Walsall. The boat is Tom No 28...
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A summary of Birmingham tollgates and toll collection points on its turnpikes in the 1830s (article was a reflection in 1938). According to post #47, there were more town gates in the 1820s, so perhaps these had been removed by the late 1830s.

Town tolls
Deritend Bridge
Bradford Street Bridge
Lawley Street Bridge

Boundary tolls
Highgate near Kyrwicks Lane
Small Heath, at Green Lane
Aston Road, at Park Lane
Summer Hill, at Icknield Street
Five Ways, Bristol Road, at junction with Priory Road
Ladypool Lane




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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
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