Late 70s amateur Aerial Photos, city and south to Longbridge

[Pedrocut]

Many thanks for sharing your pictures.

What type of scanner did you use?

 

[T Q]

40817-12
Not a clue, seems to be a style typical of school-building in the late 50s and 60s so I'm going with that along with what looks to be School-entrance road markings ... though it appears to be quite expansive premises ...

EDIT - Identified as Shelley Court, Long Nuke Rd., Northfield. Thanks Les Williams.

 

[T Q]

41353-1
Birmingham Uni before the new QE Hosp took over the neighbourhood and trashed so much, including *my* special place a nice 15 minute walk along field-paths to a spot on the curve of the railway line - paradoxically right about where University Station is now - just where it went through a small cutting, where I'd go with my dog and just enjoy sitting for an hour and waving at the trains as they came along ... sometimes Mum would put up a picnic and we'd all go and make an afternoon of it.

 

[T Q]

41353-2
Same school as a couple above - any help?

EDIT - Identified as Shelley Court, Long Nuke Rd., Northfield. Thanks Les Williams.

 

[T Q]

41353-3
Just not seeing this, though I know I should easily work it out ..... small piece of industry in what seems predominantly a residential sprawl ... keeps pulling me back to an Incinerator but that's mainly because of the stack. Loads of potential clues all over the place again, but they are only clues if you have some familiarity and can recognise them as such I suppose.

EDIT: Identified as Northfield, the vicinity of the junction of Hawkesley Mill Lane (cutting-in on diagonal at lower left) and the Bristol Road (horizontal line of trees passing in front of open grassed area and continuing in front of houses) ... enclosing former Kalamazoo factory/offices, later to become Reynolds & Reynolds. Factory demolished 1980s, office remains. Thank you oldMohawk.

 

[T Q]

41353-4 & 5
I know that's Longbridge as-was, recognise the circular building from somewhere, possibly their marketing at the time . I gather Longbridge is now a Town!

 

[T Q]

41353-6
Somebody's school/s ... yours?
Guessing First and Middle, or maybe it was still Infants and Juniors then or am I showing my age?

EDIT - Identified as Richmond Road, Olton; St Margaret's C of E Primary School. Thanks Old Mohawk.

 

[T Q]

41353-7
A nice little lakeside community, goodness knows where. Looks pleasant, has/had a rather nice cricket pitch by the look of things, good to see someone had their priorities in order!

EDIT - Identified as Olton Reservoir, Thanks old Mohawk.

 

[T Q]

41353-8
Central Mosque, Belgrave Middleway

 

[jmadone]

35541-10
Guessing a zoom-tryout from fuzziness, no idea of location but likely on line of departure so generally sorta-NW, so Marston Green ish ?

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Really enjoying these pictures. This one I suggest is the junction of The Radleys with Bell Lane. Tile Cross/Sheldon/Marston Green border.

 

[T Q]

41353-9
Edgbaston Cricket Club

 

[T Q]

41353-10
Pebble Mill TV Studios

 

[T Q]

41353-11
Elmdon Airport

 

[T Q]

41353-12
Another school, again prob First/Middle

EDIT - Identified as Fallowfield Rd., Solihull; Valley Primary School. Thanks Old Mohawk.

 

[T Q]

WELCOME to the forum TQ and thanks for the photos. I tried it once. at Caernarfon airport absolutely amazing feeling

Thanks for the welcome, most kind.

 

[T Q]

Many thanks for sharing your pictures.

What type of scanner did you use?

My pleasure, and I hope they maybe jog some memories for others.

I used a commercial slide/negative scan/input device, a stand-alone piece of kit I needed for a commercial project a while ago and was able to borrow-back for these negs ... for a very short moment it made me enthusiastic to go through all the negs that were stored along with these and then have a proper archive to hand-on, til I estimated there were thousands! But Hmmm, still might rather than leave them in a box for a few more decades just to deteriorate.

 

[T Q]

Really enjoying these pictures. This one I suggest is the junction of The Radleys with Bell Lane. Tile Cross/Sheldon/Marston Green border.

Appears to be more than probable, given that the difference between my photo and the current Googlemap image (just looked!) is pretty minor and easily accounted for by a couple of generations worth of housebuilding replacements/alterations to the corner bungalows and the main roofs ... plus replacing the houses on the crescent behind that corner is typical of steps taken to maximise housing density on a given piece of land. Plus of course is an easy fit with the flightpath. So well done for nailing that!

TQ

 

[Astoness]

hello TQ and welcome to the forum...your photos are amazing....hopefully some members will be able to help with the locations of some that you are not sure of...never be afraid to post any that you have because we have lost a lot of buildings since you took them...you are helping to preserve history that we have lost

all the best

lyn

 

[Malvernian]

35541-5
Anyone place this pitch/track? Quite a few clues ad a major road to help?
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Bath Row/Holloway Head left side to top right corner across end of pitch and Sutton Street alongside pitch - and my place of birth in 1949 - about where the centre circle intersects with the centre line on the Sutton Street side. Thanks for the photo!

 

[MWS]

Great photos!

#10 doesn't look like Eastfield Road.

Could 27 be a greyhound track? Don't think it's Hall Green, Perry Barr maybe?

 

[brianthelion]

35541-5
Anyone place this pitch/track? Quite a few clues ad a major road to help?
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Looks like Holloway Head Lee Bank opposite the Peace Gardens on the middle left of the photo.

 

[T Q]

Bath Row/Holloway Head left side to top right corner across end of pitch and Sutton Street alongside pitch - and my place of birth in 1949 - about where the centre circle intersects with the centre line on the Sutton Street side. Thanks for the photo!

Looks like Holloway Head Lee Bank opposite the Peace Gardens on the middle left of the photo.

Of Course!!

Thank you both, I recognise the drive-in tyre place - which I think was there around the time I am thinking - but even more embarrassingly I used to do some occasional business with a firm called Disney -something-or-other in the building next to it, and visited there now and then.

Plus my then wife-to-be worked in Scala House and her windows directly overlooked the pre-pagoda Holloway Head roundabout and I'd often be driving down there from Five Ways and past those very places to pick her up right on the corner!

And Malvernian, SO delighted at your connection with the photo, that's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping might happen for someone! My work is done!!

TQ

 

[T Q]

hello TQ and welcome to the forum...your photos are amazing....hopefully some members will be able to help with the locations of some that you are not sure of...never be afraid to post any that you have because we have lost a lot of buildings since you took them...you are helping to preserve history that we have lost

all the best

lyn

Thank you for your welcome and kind words Lyn, and I'm glad I have found a safe and suitable place for them.

I will be adding to other threads on this and that too I am sure, and possibly with related photos on occasion.

Best,

TQ

 

[T Q]

Great photos!

#10 doesn't look like Eastfield Road.

Could 27 be a greyhound track? Don't think it's Hall Green, Perry Barr maybe?

A dog track could be an option of course ... I'm not sure that the photo fits with the Aldridge road as it is today, but 50-ish years ago with all the changes who knows?

Thanks for the thought.
TQ

 

[Morturn]

I think #10 is the railway tunnel on The Radleys. Amazing photos, thanks for sharing them

 

[Pedrocut]

I thought I recognised the lake in Post 13 as Forge Mill Lake in Sandwell Valley where the river Tame runs alongside, but can't fit with present day...

Late 70s amateur Aerial Photos, city and south to Longbridge

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[Malvernian]

I thought I recognised the lake in Post 13 as Forge Mill Lake in Sandwell Valley where the river Tame runs alongside, but can't fit with present day...

Late 70s amateur Aerial Photos, city and south to Longbridge

I came across this Forum just a little time ago whilst googling something entirely unrelated, and have dropped back at times and rekindled a lot of memories, learned more than a few things about the City's history and growth both before and after I arrived blinking in to this world just after...

birminghamhistory.co.uk

How about Babb's Mill Lake over at Kingshurst with the River Cole running alongside?

 

[T Q]

I thought I recognised the lake in Post 13 as Forge Mill Lake in Sandwell Valley where the river Tame runs alongside, but can't fit with present day...

Thanks for the suggestion, and from Google Earth it is certainly easy to see a 50-years shapeshifted version being an option but for its perceived surroundings. On a side note, I'm certainly getting a crash-course on Birmingham lakes!

How about Babb's Mill Lake over at Kingshurst with the River Cole running alongside?

Thanks Malvernian, and there seems very little doubt that that is it ... corroborated also by the presence of smaller Shard End Lake a little to the NW which also appears in the 70's photo though in no real detail ... excellent!


TQ

 

[T Q]

I think #10 is the railway tunnel on The Radleys. Amazing photos, thanks for sharing them

Thanks Morturn, and also for confirming MWS's doubt. Clearly that's spot-on!

It is an area with which I am not at all familiar, however the Eastfields Road tunnel that closely resembles this one in certain aspects came to mind because I used to go through it at intervals if I took a certain route to/from visiting family. I hadn't encountered a so-similar other, and my brain just filled in the gaps for itself I expect.

TQ

 

[T Q]

.... Amazing photos, thanks for sharing them

Lol .... I'm even coming to think that myself now, looking back through a 50 year old window even though it could do with a jolly good clean! Maybe they aren't all that bad after all

TQ