Old street pics..

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folk regularly and Nowadays proper pubs (not bars) sometimes have drinking receptacles eithe rinsid eor outside for dogs, My neighbour, who has a dog, has one outside her house for her and her pet's friends who might be passing

I go to Norfolk regularly and the shops not oly the pubs have dishes outside for dogs

 

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The Bell was my local off and on for 21 years I could alternate between here and The Harvester needless to say which was my favourite , The Bell had a great atmosphere

 

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What I am going to try here is to trace the old No 56 bus route from outside Henry's store in Union Street to the terminus at the Clock Garage Castle Bromwich. I do know that this might not be the original route, but it is the one I remember and made many times.

We start as I said outside Henry's store in Union St (1). We then make a little journey along Corporation St and down Bull St to Dale End (2) passing the length of Dale End we come to the Shah Jahan at the junction of Coleshill St and Stafford St (3). Passing by the Gaiety Cinema (4) on Coleshill St we come to Prospect Row (5).

Thus ending out first leg of the journey

Please excuse me if the photos don't always appear in the right sequence, but they seem to load themselves in a different order to what I place them in. You will have to run your mouse over them or open them to see the numbers.

Yes it was a journey I first set upon in 1966 as my apprenticeship took me to the new Castle Bromwich Rubbish Tip on the Chester Rd , this was of course going to be a big change from the last two years of my apprenticeship at the Birmingham Post & Mail.

 

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Continuing on now to Digbeth past the Rea Street junction (1) and the Civic Hall on the right (2) once a function hall and wrestling and boxing venue, now a night club. Passing on the other side of the road the new Midland Red depot under construction (3) Now looking back from where we have just come from at Mill Lane (4). Now we are passing Smithfield with Morgans Sausages and the Police Station opposite (5)

I had to go to Digbeth Civic Hall as an apprentice to join the Electrical Trades Union

 

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Lightswood Park Hagley Road 1930
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My one outstanding memory about Lightwoods Park although I'd visited there several times . was the time after a school cricket match . On the way out of the park I came accross a frog at the base of the drinking fountain there , so after showing all the friends my new acquisition i put him into my blazer pocket . After getting home I took him out of the pocket and he really looked dead so without further ado I brought him up to as near to my lips as I could then cupped it's head and blew and what do you know life appeared as lively as anything . I placed it down on the floor as the floor was solid concrete slabs and would you believe it within minutes it had disappeared

 

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Another Getty Image of the corner of Bradford Street and Moat Lane a short lived club The Midnight City

YYes that was the place if you wanted to see The Who go mad and smash their instruments

 

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weaman st/steelhouse lane 1954

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steelhouse lane aug 1954 with newton st on the left

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fazeley st...1955

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upper dean st/gloucester st..1955

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hurst st showing the hippodrome... 1955

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Newton Street late 50's is where you pcked up your maintainence money as a aprent after separation/divorce . More often than not in moms case pop hadn't paid anything so we came away with nowt /

 

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Holloway Head 1870s

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Carolina that's a bit different to the Holloway Head I knew in my youth and later in my working years in the 70's around there

 

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Hardly a church surely as little remains but I know what you mean. Sadly the drunks took the gardens over some years back. My wife worked nearby and attempted to walk there with a friend but they did not like the atmosphere. Very sad as I recall visiting many years ago and enjoyed walking around.

Do you know Bernard before the demolition of the area in the 60's I lived down the road from the Peace Garden and we kids used to go climbing there as much as I hate to admit it. I can honestly say hand on heart although times were hard back then , there were never any wino's or drinkers of any sort . Was it a better class of Alcoholic back then, where did we go wrong ?

 

[Richard Dye]

Do you know Bernard before the demolition of the area in the 60's I lived down the road from the Peace Garden and we kids used to go climbing there as much as I hate to admit it. I can honestly say hand on heart although times were hard back then , there were never any wino's or drinkers of any sort . Was it a better class of Alcoholic back then, where did we go wrong ?

Hinds sight is 20/20. However we should learn from the past and I don’t think we are!

 

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Hinds sight is 20/20. However we should learn from the past and I don’t think we are!

Never a truer word Richard