Used to park up adjacent to that tree some twenty years ago when I was a "white van man" making deliveries for a wholesale pharmacists (LexonUK) to the retailer there on the left.Postcard view of Stratford Road. The man on the left walks toward Showell Green Road. Date unknown. Some of the buildings exist today.
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The view today. Trees block the view but the small spire (top right) shows in both photos.
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Not sure but I think it is a lime tree!Those trees - from the sublime to the ridculous or vice versa. At least the people in the accomodation above the shops could see daylight in 2011
Maurice
A common choice for large towns and cities; I believe from is survival properties.Not sure but I think it is a lime tree!
back from the war?Doh! By the way part of the writing says Frank is back and it is dated September 1918.....back from where?
Bob
January 1939, Birmingham Daily Post. Church of the Redeemer Floodlit.Hagley Road postcard which was franked in 1905. I'm not really familiar with the Hagley Road so I don't know exactly where this was taken. I wouldn't have wanted to be one of the window cleaners working at such heights. Sorry for the dirty sky. Does anyone have a "today" photograph? Dave.
I knew the cinema as the Monument after the name of the road, then like a lot of others it was just called ABC. Only went there once. Learned a lot in the back rows, No further commentI has occasion to visit the church some years ago and it is now round the corner in Monument Road itself. It stands on the former site of a cinema (name escapes me) but is just on the bend of the road. I was researching a block of houses which once stood there called 'Monument Place'. Slightly clearer photo of this baptist church below. I expect they got a considerable sum for the prime site on Hagley Road and like a lot of other churches felt that with shrinking congregations the upkeep of such a large building was too much.
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I always knew it as the Edgbaston cinema in Monument Road. I remember seeing Patrick Boone in Friendly Persuasion there in about 1957/1958I knew the cinema as the Monument after the name of the road, then like a lot of others it was just called ABC. Only went there once. Learned a lot in the back rows, No further comment
Phil, belated interest! I learnt today that one of my great grans was married from Clevedon Rd in 1886, no number given. Wedding at St Lukes Church. Groom from Bell Barn Road.An old post card showing Clevedon Road, Balsall Heath.
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You wouldn't need curtains up at that window!!!.That tree badly needs a heavy prune - it's not really a suitable tree for that position.
Maurice
This is how I remember the Bull Ring!
The photograph is probably being taken from the Fire Station itself. The white bar (of sunlight?) on Corporation Street would be coming from Ryder Street, where I lived till 1955, and the tower is the Central Methodist church whose ministrer in those days was the striking figure of the Reverend Maldwyn Edwards whose fiery sermons attracted a large congregation. I''m noticing for the first time, the crenellation and fairy castle towers atop the Ansells pub!The other end of Corporation Street c.1940s. Note the odd caption - the Fire Station is nowhere to be seen.
Actually taken from the Halford's building, later totally destroyed by fire despite its proximity to the Central Fire Station off shot to the left.The photograph is probably being taken from the Fire Station itself. The white bar (of sunlight?) on Corporation Street would be coming from Ryder Street, where I lived till 1955, and the tower is the Central Methodist church whose ministrer in those days was the striking figure of the Reverend Maldwyn Edwards whose fiery sermons attracted a large congregation. I''m noticing for the first time, the crenellation and fairy castle towers atop the Ansells pub!