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Four views, two pre WWII and two modern, well after WWII. The one of Colmore Row was published by Valentines and the number on it indicates it was published in 1927, which would explain the 26 on it as being photographed in 1926, however it was not postally used until 1938, written in French and sent to Brussels. The writer was staying with the Tailby's who lived in the flat where the arrow points. Interestingly that the other black and white card is Birmingham library No 6, I wonder ow many they issued. Unfortunately nothing rare or historically interesting, but just run of the mill, however if there is a collector who might be interested, please ask, they are there for the taking. Interestingly again the bus is of the type currently subject of an ongoing theme. I will leave it to the experts to enlarge, straighten, put them in focus and etc. Again if anyone can enlarge the one with the bus on Colmore Row sufficient to get the rout number and the registration number..........just as
 

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Its too blurred & pixellated to see clearly - the original or a better scan might be better - but I think the route shown is "PORTLAND ROAD 7". The bus is one of the 1930/1 AEC Regents, and Colmore Row is one way so its post 1933.
 
I thought possibly PORTLAND ROAD 7 but I am slightly more inclined to thinking RIDGACRE ROAD 3 which predated the 3A now the 24
 
just noticed the photo of villa st on post 1955 and a view i know so well as i lived in this street from 58 to 72...when i was there the little shop on the left was eileens the drapers..just up from there on the same side you can see a white wall sticking out which was the vine inn you can just see the 2 pub lamps..just a couple of houses down from the vine on the other side of the street you can just catch a tiny glimpse of my house at 118...i have got 2 or 3 of this shot..one of them is very sharp..when i started my search for photos about 12 years ago this was the very first one in my collection which was sent to me by phil...happy days

lyn
 
Lloyd said:
Its too blurred & pixellated to see clearly - the original or a better scan might be better - but I think the route shown is "PORTLAND ROAD 7". The bus is one of the 1930/1 AEC Regents, and Colmore Row is one way so its post 1933.
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The original is extremely blurred, while I don't want to argue with your dating, the Valentines serial number is clearly recorded in their archives as 1927, but they could have reissued and even rephotographed but kept the same serial number. Nothing is straightforward in the postcard world.

Bob
 
From the Iron Room, Birmingham Libraries...

“The Clive Davies postcard collection [MS 2703] consists of over 8000 postcards, and provides an illustrated history of Birmingham and surrounding suburbs, and of the production history of post cards, through a series spanning from the late 19th century, through to the 1990s.”

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The Clive Davies Postcard Collection

On the 1st October 1869, the first postcard was issued in Austria – a plain card with a printed two-kreuzer stamp on one side and a space for a message on the other – one year later in…
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Another pre-1915 view. A curiosity is the street lighting. There are low level lamp posts with gas lighting and high level lamps. I wonder if the high level were new fangled electrical ones? Presumably they would be difficult to service and light at that height by the lamp lighter - assuming there was one of course.
 
Clevedon Road had a single tram track as can be seen in the photo (post 1971). This was the outbound track to Cannon Hill, route 37. Due to the narrow streets in most of of Balsall Heath trams only ran in one direction on many roads, returning t town using another road. This earned the area the nickname of the Chinese Railway.
 
Radiorails said:
Another pre-1915 view. A curiosity is the street lighting. There are low level lamp posts with gas lighting and high level lamps. I wonder if the high level were new fangled electrical ones? Presumably they would be difficult to service and light at that height by the lamp lighter - assuming there was one of course.
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Our road has 'high-level' lighting (yellow) and 'low-level' lighting (white LED). The low-level lighting is a relatively new thing, we have gone through many generations of high-level lighting, heads, arms and poles being replaced singly, in pairs and altogether.
The high-level lighting in Lichfield Road would have been serviced using tower wagons, something that survived into the early 1960s I think in Birmingham. Nowadays the low-level lighting doesn't even have an arm to prop a ladder against. Either a hydraulic platform would be used or, in the case of the ones in our street, they are made to swing down to the horizontal.
 
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The high-level lighting in Lichfield Road would have been serviced using tower wagons, something that survived into the early 1960s I think in Birmingham. Nowadays the low-level lighting doesn't even have an arm to prop a ladder against. Either a hydraulic platform would be used or, in the case of the ones in our street, they are made to swing down to the horizontal.
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The dreaded H&S legislation has banned Tower wagons in favour of 'Cherry Picker' hydraulic platforms, likewise ladders are a no-no - it has to be scaffolding towers now.
 
Radiorails said:
Another pre-1915 view. A curiosity is the street lighting. There are low level lamp posts with gas lighting and high level lamps. I wonder if the high level were new fangled electrical ones? Presumably they would be difficult to service and light at that height by the lamp lighter - assuming there was one of course.
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The tall poles supported the tramway overhead wires, not lighting (although later they would hold the electric street lights).
 
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The tall poles supported the tramway overhead wires, not lighting (although later they would hold the electric street lights).
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Look closer at the Lichfield Road photo! The pole on the right-hand side behind the tramway pole is most definitely a lighting column.

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Sorry, hadn't noticed that. Made at the MacKenzie & Moncur foundry at Edinburgh, these (former) Arc lamp poles were used by Handsworth UDC as well as many other places in the country, Some survive in Westminster, I believe, and one of the Handsworth ones was rescued for the tramway Museum at Crich, Derbyshire and erected there. Its not there now, I hope it has survived.
 
Looking again at the photo in post 1968 there does seem to be only one high level electric lamp, at the road junction. Today it might well be a camera! :eek:
 
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