Gas Street basin

[Colroy07]

removing wharf building the beginning of new Birmingham.

 

[Astoness]

great photos colroy...thanks for posting them

lyn

 

[Colroy07]

View attachment 169696this was called bridal street

 

[Colroy07]

this was the front of goods yard onto Suffolk street.

 

[Lloyd]

View attachment 169782this was the front of goods yard onto Suffolk street.

This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!

 

[mikeflan]

This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!

That brings back childhood memories, when I lived at my grans in Selly Oak our #20 bus used to turn around using that building as the terminus, and you'd wait for the bus to come into Suffolk Street bus stop...the street was a cobbled surface...looked very dangerous when wet.

 

[cookie273uk]

I love painting canals, here is another of Gas street Basin one of many I have done of this section. Eric

 

[Morturn]

I love painting canals, here is another of Gas street Basin one of many I have done of this section. Eric

Eric, I love this painting. The boat is just where the Adder was moored in 1966. As a young boy I sat on the roof at the stern and a man took a photo of me

 

[Vivienne14]

An ice-cutter sank in the Basin in 1960 while under conversion to a resource for child excursions. Just as well no-one was aboard at the time. Viv.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Pedrocut]

Don’t think this view has been posted of Gas Street Basin prior to 1970.

Portrait of Birmingham by Bird, Vivian, Publication date 1970

 

[Heartland]

Vivian Bird first produced a smaller version of the book for City of Birmingham Information Department in 1969 and the larger version was made in 1970 with reprints in 1974 and 1979.

 

[Pedrocut]

No sure where this picture of Gas Street Basin was from.

 

[A Sparks]

No sure where this picture of Gas Street Basin was from.

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Maybe there used to be a little man made Island in the middle of the canal there?

 

[Morturn]

Maybe there used to be a little man made Island in the middle of the canal there?

It is, the island is part of the stop lock that still there today. There use to be a single plank as a bridge to get to the island and some of the moored boats. I think it was sometime in the 90’s they build a proper bridge.

 

[Vivienne14]

Phyllis Nicklin captured the changing state of the Basin from 1961 compared with 1968. She must have realised that the state of the canal would decline. Today, of course, it's been given a new lease of life.

 

[Morturn]

It was interesting how she would visit the same site more than once and take another photo from about the same spot and occasionally do this more than once

 

[Lloyd]

It was interesting how she would visit the same site more than once and take another photo from about the same spot and occasionally do this more than once

She was obviously aware of "The changing face of Birmingham" and wished to record those changes.

 

[Dionysius//88]

Eric, I love this painting. The boat is just where the Adder was moored in 1966. As a young boy I sat on the roof at the stern and a man took a photo of me

Morturn where you were moored if I was looking towards that tunnel about 10 foott or so from my back was and adjoinnig branch of the canal system and that's where I fell in . That can be seen in pic 105 the branch that is