OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

[SteveBhx]

We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road.
We start just round the corner from Great Charles Street, three storey town house - stone frames windows with leaded inserts, look to to how the guttering is attached to the building and the curled metalwork above it.

 

[SteveBhx]

We now have a name long gone Bradford and Bingley Building Society - this became a Bank and then was nationalised in 2000 with its assetts been bought by Abbey National who themselves were bought out by Santander.
Fine stone building with grand entrances either side of the modern shop frontage , three storeys with attic rooms too, love the little bay windows on the third floor. there is also a Midland Bank next door another name we have lost

 

[SteveBhx]

Bit further up and we come to the corner with Cornwall Street, fine building with so much happening, from the left, entrance with almost a dutch style to the building, this then move to a corner building with a turret style top to it, metal railings and an arched metal window frame, has now become an All bar One.

 

[SteveBhx]

next we have a general view up towards Colmore Row, showing the wide variety of buildings note the modern building at the top of the road on the left, and also a modern building close on the left.

 

[SteveBhx]

We now turn around and look at the other end of Cornwall Street, another corner building with a turret type building stone window frames, chimney to the left with fine stone work around the roof line. Note also the Metro parked in front of the street sign.

 

[SteveBhx]

We now look further up Cornwall Street and again we can see the wide variety of building up the road , grand premises most double fronted with council office at the top of the road and the Midland Institute to the left . see also the street light reflecting ( sorry ) that this is pat of the Conservation area.

 

[SteveBhx]

Moving back now to the redevelopment around Icknield Street, ( have a look at #1,945) and we now see the road as it looks like today.

 

[SteveBhx]

Heading back towards the roundabout and the new road layout with lots of traffic lights.

 

[SteveBhx]

We now move around to the famous Hockley Underpass - constructed many years before the road was actually constructed but a bit of foresight which saved millions. A short cut between to areas which took a lot of traffic off the local roads and sped up the journey around Birmingham

 

[lmr3103]

We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road.
We start just round the corner from Great Charles Street, three storey town house - stone frames windows with leaded inserts, look to to how the guttering is attached to the building and the curled metalwork above it.

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Was there a nightclub around about there? I remember going downstairs into a basement in a very similar looking building….