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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

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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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
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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.

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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.
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SteveBhx said:
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….
 
lmr3103 said:
Was there a nightclub around about there? I remember going downstairs into a basement in a very similar looking building….
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Probably Pollyanna's?

Pollyanna’s was a wildly popular 1970s nightclub located on Newhall Street, situated just a short walk from Great Charles Street in Birmingham. It was operated by the Fewtrell family empire, which dominated the city's nightlife at the time.
Opened in the 1960s as The Revolution before transforming into Pollyanna’s, it became a defining hotspot of 1970s Birmingham nightlife. It was known for its upbeat atmosphere, resident DJs, and iconic, energetic party nights.
 
A Sparks said:
Probably Pollyanna's?

Pollyanna’s was a wildly popular 1970s nightclub located on Newhall Street, situated just a short walk from Great Charles Street in Birmingham. It was operated by the Fewtrell family empire, which dominated the city's nightlife at the time.
Opened in the 1960s as The Revolution before transforming into Pollyanna’s, it became a defining hotspot of 1970s Birmingham nightlife. It was known for its upbeat atmosphere, resident DJs, and iconic, energetic party nights.
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Thanks for that Sparks.
 
The worst possible building of all time for kids used to be on this street when I was a kid. and it was named The Dental Hospital . Gt Charles Street took on a whole new outlook to me when it was moved from here
 
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