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Well done all. Just signed in and missed out on all the action - again - today. You lot have been very busy! Thanks also to Alan (Astonian) for your Newbury's memories. Just a few photos so far and we're all much wiser for it. Thanks Lyn and Mike, this is a great thread. Viv.
Radiorails
master brummie
I guess the meat market was pretty close to the Drovers Arms. That area of the city was not one I ventured often. I recalled seeing an old 'photo, on this site I am sure, of sheep being driven in Bradford Street.
Definitely looks like Pershore St written on the road sign leading off to the right. Viv.
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oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
A pic on the forum here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=38737&p=488565#post488565
Shows the Sunbeam Grates shop
Shows the Sunbeam Grates shop
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oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
We were all on our marks on the starting line and Phil made the quickest start ...
Next one please, got me running shoes on ready. Viv.
NORTHFIELD
master brummie
The Drovers Arms 1901
Whatever deal they're trying to strike, they're giving it some very serious thought. Think the man with his back to the camera has something in his hands. Reins maybe? And yes Phil, Mr Shifty looks like he doesn't want to be caught on camera. Maybe the discussion was about something not strictly legit. The horses look a bit thin to me, not very well nourished. Viv.
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NORTHFIELD
master brummie
Thanks Mohawk. I was just responding to a request by Astoness. You could have reposted at that point. Shan't bother again.
Hi Northfield
I also have another picture of the Drovers Arms which as a slightly different one with women and what appears to be
The old high prams selling there goods out side the Drovers Arms and it is definitely the same pub and building as I have them in front of me comparing
And it is listed as 346 Bradford Street on the corner of Smithfield street in the vicinity of the meat market
Stating this photograph was taken in 1901., And the manager 1, A F Green, 2., Mrs A Green, joint mangers
Best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,,,
I also have another picture of the Drovers Arms which as a slightly different one with women and what appears to be
The old high prams selling there goods out side the Drovers Arms and it is definitely the same pub and building as I have them in front of me comparing
And it is listed as 346 Bradford Street on the corner of Smithfield street in the vicinity of the meat market
Stating this photograph was taken in 1901., And the manager 1, A F Green, 2., Mrs A Green, joint mangers
Best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,,,
Viewfinder
master brummie
The dark intrusion in the top left corner is either an awning or the photographer was shooting from waist-level and has managed to capture the end of his tie. OK, since this game is fiercely competitive, I'll get in early with an educated guess: New Canal Street.
morning viewfinder all the photos that mikejee is putting on were taken by him but he does not know exactly where so we have to be sure.. unless someone can actually remember where these building were i think this one could be difficult
lyn
Viewfinder
master brummie
Extremely difficult. I got the A to Z out and tried to imagine mikejee's route between Jamaica Row and Meriden Street. The advertising hoardings indicate that it's a bit more than a minor side-street. As oldMohawk says, that does look like a public convenience - though slightly odd that it's not signed. Perhaps unlikely to be Allison Street, which was (still is?) provided with a pissoir under the railway arches screened by iron panels.
That was just off the corner of meriden street walking down from new annal street heading towards digbeth it was the last exit on your right hand
Heading from digbeth at the traffic lights you turn on to meriden and start walking up meriden street on your left about three hundred yards
This little building you see is just right by the first tunnel you come to and the exit of a little cut in of a what I think was a road in its hey day
Its definitely meriden street my grand parents was number 1 new canal street digbeth and I passed this little corner and that building you think is a toilet
On my way down from the house and coffee shop they was another coffee shop across the road from this corner building and there was another little red facing that building this coffee shop later in years was called ocean tide or so think of that wording
It was painted out side in very bright blue waves of sea blue and other colours but that's where the building was
When I was a kid down there every Sunday morning passing this building I queeried it myself way back in 1950 As to what it could have been
That being the toilet look alike but the big black mark I cannot say. Astonian,,,,
Heading from digbeth at the traffic lights you turn on to meriden and start walking up meriden street on your left about three hundred yards
This little building you see is just right by the first tunnel you come to and the exit of a little cut in of a what I think was a road in its hey day
Its definitely meriden street my grand parents was number 1 new canal street digbeth and I passed this little corner and that building you think is a toilet
On my way down from the house and coffee shop they was another coffee shop across the road from this corner building and there was another little red facing that building this coffee shop later in years was called ocean tide or so think of that wording
It was painted out side in very bright blue waves of sea blue and other colours but that's where the building was
When I was a kid down there every Sunday morning passing this building I queeried it myself way back in 1950 As to what it could have been
That being the toilet look alike but the big black mark I cannot say. Astonian,,,,
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I can assure that ain't the drovers pub if any think the word drovers yes because the two bridges on meriden street and it changes to new canal street
Were the holding bridges for the cattle that came to brum over the week end before being driven along the road to the Hide And skin yard
Further down on new canal street that if any think would have been a toilet for these guys and secondly
As I have said that building which we are referring to as a toilet may have been the booking in of the cattle when they was unloaded
For the drivers whom in those days booked in to the B/B bed and breakfast at the transport cafe my grand
Parents ran and owned and my mother was brought up in and right next door to the hide and skin yard and also the yard of typhoon tea,s
We had a little gate in the back of the cafe ( cafes back yard ) which you walked into both yards emeciatiatly typhoon, and walk ten yards into
Hide and skin itself yard
But getting back to the building as I said the photographer lined himself up to the building at an angle and as I said that particular corner
At the remediate side of the building where the black mark is that was a different name and was blacked out in those days
And as I say that particular corner was an L shape turn of the building joined together on that particular corner had he emedciatedly turn end
Himself around he could have taken a picture of the entrance of another section of the Penn's for what other animals they had
Because they housed cows and sheep and pigs in those arches of the bridges
But it was not the back of the drovers because as I have said you would be able to walk past that. Block and the little passage of a very short distance
You was behind the digbeth police station and when you was walking through and turned left walk the same distance back and you would be by there
Rear yard of entrance and there police yard went right back in far back as that building as they had garages and offices there and outer building
Below ground and supplies stores and if you was one of the poor people of the mail Christmas fund tree
And you went to get your boots and clothing you would recall just how big that place was Astonian,,,,,,,,
Were the holding bridges for the cattle that came to brum over the week end before being driven along the road to the Hide And skin yard
Further down on new canal street that if any think would have been a toilet for these guys and secondly
As I have said that building which we are referring to as a toilet may have been the booking in of the cattle when they was unloaded
For the drivers whom in those days booked in to the B/B bed and breakfast at the transport cafe my grand
Parents ran and owned and my mother was brought up in and right next door to the hide and skin yard and also the yard of typhoon tea,s
We had a little gate in the back of the cafe ( cafes back yard ) which you walked into both yards emeciatiatly typhoon, and walk ten yards into
Hide and skin itself yard
But getting back to the building as I said the photographer lined himself up to the building at an angle and as I said that particular corner
At the remediate side of the building where the black mark is that was a different name and was blacked out in those days
And as I say that particular corner was an L shape turn of the building joined together on that particular corner had he emedciatedly turn end
Himself around he could have taken a picture of the entrance of another section of the Penn's for what other animals they had
Because they housed cows and sheep and pigs in those arches of the bridges
But it was not the back of the drovers because as I have said you would be able to walk past that. Block and the little passage of a very short distance
You was behind the digbeth police station and when you was walking through and turned left walk the same distance back and you would be by there
Rear yard of entrance and there police yard went right back in far back as that building as they had garages and offices there and outer building
Below ground and supplies stores and if you was one of the poor people of the mail Christmas fund tree
And you went to get your boots and clothing you would recall just how big that place was Astonian,,,,,,,,
