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The Keith Berry Photo Archive – It's in or around Birmingham, but where?

Morturn

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The Keith Berry Photo Archive

Details in my Old Birmingham album were often from the scribbled notes on the back of the photos that were scanned into the computer, but I have come across some rolls of developed black & white films - negatives in other words - with no notes anywhere, and some colour slides from around 1970 also without any idea of subjects' locations.

It's in or around Birmingham, but where?
 
3. Old Factory 1958

I've tried hard without success to remember where this was, but as I used to walk home from Newhall Street through parts of Hockley, Newtown and Handsworth, I have to assume that it was somewhere in that area.

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4. Overgrown Gardens 1960s

Somewhere in Handsworth perhaps. Someone commented I think this is a picture of Holland St. in the middle of Sutton Coldfield,top of the Parade going towards Maney. I think one of the houses used to be the School clinic in the 1950's early 1960's

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6. Derelict maisonette

We've lost so much interesting looking housing to these bland and boring things that it's rather nice to see them getting their own come-uppance!

Someone commented I think you will find its miller lighting in astonbrook st. Someone else commented I think these are the maisonette's in Phillip Street

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8. Unknown street

Someone commented Not in Birmingham - it's those concrete lampposts and sodium lamps that give it away again

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9. Unknown Wall

Someone commented I think this used to be a terraced property opposite my house in Mount Pleasant in Small Heath between 1970-1972. They knocked them down around this time.

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11. Street under demolition

Suggestions were George St, Lozells, circa 77/78 halfway between John St and Wills St, looking down towards the Angel public house

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Ok so I have now posted all of the Keith Berry photo collection I was able to salvage. There are most likely to be others, so if anyone can add new material to this collection, please do post them in the relevant thread.

If possible, please send me an un-resized copy so I can add it to the archive for the benefit of future generations.
 
#14 - there's an upended wholesalers crate outside the shop from a Coventry supplier (Filongley, Coventry) . So could the shop be somewhere near Coventry perhaps ?
 
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