• Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.

    We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team

Newhall Street

I think the photographer is standing just up from Great Charles Street, looking towards Colmore Row. Cornwall Street on the left, followed by Edmund Street
 
I have merged two Newhall St threads.
I presume this cutting refers to the building below now still standing

Settmakers &stoneworkers.J. 1.2.1899.jpgScreenHunter 2588.jpg

But , if so, then it seems to have deviated from the original purpose by 1950, when the OS map describes it as the Public Assistance Offices
 
Hi,

My first job in 1960 was at the Westminster Bank, 98, Newhall Street.
Can anyone tell me what is there now?

Kind regards
Dave
 
Thanks ASparks I’ve just had a look. Most of the road seems to be terraced villas with name plaques still on the buildings. I suspect Holly Bank would have been where Salisbury Road joined Birchfield Road. I think at some point Birchfield Road was widened and consequently several houses were probably removed in Salisbury Road. Perhaps it was one of those. With a name like Holly Bank it sounds to me like a detached house too. All guesswork though. Viv.
 
This photo was on a site trying to identify unknown photos. It was identified as 35-37 Newhall St, architects Newton and Cheatle, and constructed with materials from Gibbs and Canning terracotta manufacturers . It was destroyed by bombing during the war I am not certain whether it also includes at least another building next to 35-37, but this is arguable and not clear. 1950s map below after bombing

35-37 Newhall St.jpgmap 1950s showig area around 35-37 Newhall st.jpg
 
A view looking up Newhall Street from Bread Street (later Cornwall Street) to Edmund Street, dated as c1887. Presumably these buildings were demolished in the development that constructed the buildings in Mike's photo.

Newhall Street (Bread Street junction, looking towards Edmund Street) 1887.jpg
 
Afternoon everyone! I am a second year History student at the University of Birmingham. I have chosen to study the history of Newhall Street as part of my module on 'Public History'. My assignment for this module has asked me to "discuss and justify what is the best format/formats to present a public history exhibition", considering "creative expressions" such as murals, monuments etc.

Would those on this forum be willing to share what they believe the best method of communicating a project about Newhall Street's history (encompassing its industrial past, links to the Chartist uprising of 1839 etc) would be?

Feel free to ask me any questions if this does not make sense. Thank you all :)
 
Lennox Stevenson said:
Afternoon everyone! I am a second year History student at the University of Birmingham. I have chosen to study the history of Newhall Street as part of my module on 'Public History'. My assignment for this module has asked me to "discuss and justify what is the best format/formats to present a public history exhibition", considering "creative expressions" such as murals, monuments etc.

Would those on this forum be willing to share what they believe the best method of communicating a project about Newhall Street's history (encompassing its industrial past, links to the Chartist uprising of 1839 etc) would be?

Feel free to ask me any questions if this does not make sense. Thank you all :)
Click to expand...
Hi and welcome to Birmingham History Forum. It really boils down to how you and your course supervisor are defining Public History. I see it in a couple of ways.

Firstly, it is a term that describes a broad range of disciplines undertaken by people who have an understanding of history but wish to work outside of the restraints of academic history. In general, those of us who embrace the term public historian accept that the boundaries of the field are somewhat fluid and that its definition remains a work still evolving.

Secondly, All the means deliberate and otherwise, through which those who are not professional historians acquire their sense of the past.

If you then think about some basic principals of public history, you are looking at objects, oral history, family stories, images, and landscape.

So, I say you have come to the right place with this forum.

Use the search box and look up Newhall Street and you will find plenty of images and stories and memories. A lot of Birmingham people are very nostalgic about the old museum of science and industry and formed quite a strong place attachment to it.

I will certainly say that the old museum did a far better job of engaging everyday people with the past and it was a super way of approaching the past from outside of the normal academic routes, the routes of well-thumbed and well quoted preciously guarded documents, accessible only to a privileged few, or the scholarly writing academics than Think Thank have ever done.

Good luck with your course and let us know how it going, we are always happy to help.
 
Lennox Stevenson said:
Afternoon everyone! I am a second year History student at the University of Birmingham. I have chosen to study the history of Newhall Street as part of my module on 'Public History'. My assignment for this module has asked me to "discuss and justify what is the best format/formats to present a public history exhibition", considering "creative expressions" such as murals, monuments etc.

Would those on this forum be willing to share what they believe the best method of communicating a project about Newhall Street's history (encompassing its industrial past, links to the Chartist uprising of 1839 etc) would be?

Feel free to ask me any questions if this does not make sense. Thank you all :)
Click to expand...
HI Lennox - I have posted quite a few of my own photos of the Science Museum on the forum - please feel free to use any you want to in your project. Best regards - Mark
 
I've also found a few photos from the 70's / 80's of buildings on Newhall St which I had not previously posted (I think!):-

Firstly the old Telephone Exchange on the corner of Newhall St and Edmund St:-
1731658605250.png
1731658648246.png
1731658947216.png
1731658981915.png

Next the emblem on top of the Assay Office:-
1731659060317.png

And finally the Queens Arms on the corner of Newhall St and Charlotte St:-
1731659129756.png
1731659197197.png
 
Maybe a pharmacy/dispensary/medical service ?

For some reason the windows on the top floor seem to have been adapted/modified - newer bricks visible below the windowsills. And the upper storeys of the building next door (to the right) have been removed leaving only the ground floor.
 
#101 Newhall Street is now Brindley House - apartments. On the early photos it looks like a road leading down on the left.Today there doesn't appear to be access alongside .Was this road/passageway once marked on a map ? Could it have once been part of Water Street - only a short section is shown today ?

Screenshot_20250913_110105_Maps.jpg
 
Last edited:
#101 Newhall Street comes up today as Brindley House. Either there has been renumbering along the street or the Birmingham Archives caption for #48 photo is incorrect.

Alternatively, is the handwritten caption supposed to read #107 ?
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot_20250913_112214_Chrome.jpg
    Screenshot_20250913_112214_Chrome.jpg
    301.3 KB · Views: 6
  • Screenshot_20250913_112405_Chrome.jpg
    Screenshot_20250913_112405_Chrome.jpg
    148.2 KB · Views: 6
Last edited:
On this picture in post 48 from the Archives it does not give the number 101 as in the previous picture, just corner of Newhall Street and Lionel Street. However it must be the same house.

Brindley House, now 101 Newhall Street, seems to be opposite Fleet Street, the next street downhill from Lionel Street ?
 
Last edited:
Vivienne14 said:
#101 Newhall Street comes up today as Brindley House. Either there has been renumbering along the street or the Birmingham Archives caption for #48 photo is incorrect.

Alternatively, is the handwritten caption supposed to read #107 ?
Click to expand...
As a point of reference for me: are the costs shown for those apartments, the purchase/ownership costs and are they considered the norm for that type of area or are they high or medium. Just trying to get a benchmark.
Thank you!
 
The 1932 Kellys shows 101 as on the corner of Lionel St, (107 not listed, but would not be on a corner). It is occupied by the British Red Cross society
 
Thanks Pedro and Mike. So there must have been some renumbering along Newhall Street in more recent times.
 
This has been posted before somewhere on the site, but not on this thread. Don't know exactly in Newhall Street where this was located, nor do I have a date. Guessing it's about 1890s.

And a couple of sketches of Newhall Street doorways - #15 and #9 - by F Chamberlain. Maybe they're somewhere in the distance in the photo ? They're unusual in that the two entrances are close together with no street level windows.
Screenshot_20250913_080615_Chrome.jpg
Screenshot_20250913_081052_Chrome.jpg
 
Last edited:
And of course George Elkingtons large 1838 electroplating factory was on Newhall Street (which later became the Science Museum). The works had many workshops and warehouses along and over the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the now filled-in Whitmore's Arm (or Miss Colmore's Arm) canal, which ran through the site. It was mostly demolished in the 1960s.

Phyllis Nicklin captured some of the building when it had become the Science Museum in late 1960 and before demolition. See colour image below.

A thread excĺusively covering the Science Museum is here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/science-museum-newhall-street.37407/

Screenshot_20250913_080946_Chrome.jpg
Screenshot_20250913_081202_Chrome.jpg

Screenshot_20250913_080750_Chrome.jpg
 
Last edited:
Vivienne14 said:
This has been posted before somewhere on the site, but not on this thread. Don't know exactly in Newhall Street where this was located, nor do I have a date. Guessing it's about 1890s.

And a couple of sketches of Newhall Street doorways - #15 and #9 - by F Chamberlain. Maybe they're somewhere in the distance in the photo ? They're unusual in that the two entrances are close together with no street level windows.
View attachment 209025
View attachment 209031
Click to expand...
Nice wide streets, lots of character that I certainly took for granted.
 
Vivienne14 said:
And of course George Elkingtons large 1838 electroplating factory was on Newhall Street (which later became the Science Museum). The works had many workshops and warehouses along and over the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the now filled-in Whitmore's Arm (or Miss Colmore's Arm) canal, which ran through the site. It was mostly demolished in the 1960s.

Phyllis Nicklin captured some of the building when it had become the Science Museum and before demolition. See colour image below.

View attachment 209033
View attachment 209035
Click to expand...
Must have been an environmental nightmare as electro plating is nasty stuff!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top