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AB ROW URINALS

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hi folks...just been reading a smashing little book and in it it says that just before AB row was demolished conservationists carefully dismantled the old urinals so that they could be rebuilt elsewhere....would anyone know if this did happen and if so where are they now

thanks

lyn
 
Lyn

If I know anything about the way the Council works, its probably doubling as some Councillors garden shed, because officially it got scrapped in error.

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Wasn't it supposed to go to Blist Hill in 1971
 
thanks rob reading that it certainly looks as though its at blist hill...keep meaning to visit...my brother has been several times so i will ask him if he has seen the old urinals there..phil the photo i have got show work barriers around it so it does look promising

lyn
 
thanks rob reading that it certainly looks as though its at blist hill...keep meaning to visit...my brother has been several times so i will ask him if he has seen the old urinals there..phil the photo i have got show work barriers around it so it does look promising

lyn


I think this photo has been on here before, but here it is again. Dated late 1960's The Ford Tranny [cane out in 1965] looks a bit work worn.
 

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tsrplatelayer (Society member Blists Hill Allan Smith ) wrote on this forum 21st Sept 2016
" I am trying to see if all the parts are present to reassemble it but many of the castings are broken. A pic in the B'ham Post dated 8 Feb 1971 shows volunteers using a sledge hammer on cast iron to dismantle it!! No wonder so many parts are broken, and we have no pics of how the roof goes together or the intenal structure - we dont have any of the porcelain. "

So it was definitely at Blists Hill on 21st September 2016
 
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If it did go to Blists HiIl it doesn't seem to show up on the site plan.
thanks rob reading that it certainly looks as though its at blist hill...keep meaning to visit...my brother has been several times so i will ask him if he has seen the old urinals there..phil the photo i have got show work barriers around it so it does look promising

lyn
 
tsrplatelayer (Society member Blists Hill Allan Smith ) wrote on this forum 21st Sept 2016
" I am trying to see if all the parts are present to reassemble it but many of the castings are broken. A pic in the B'ham Post dated 8 Feb 1971 shows volunteers using a sledge hammer on cast iron to dismantle it!! No wonder so many parts are broken, and we have no pics of how the roof goes together or the intenal structure - we dont have any of the porcelain. "

So it was definitely at Blists Hill on 21st September 2016

thanks rob

lyn
 
tsrplatelayer (Society member Blists Hill Allan Smith ) wrote on this forum 21st Sept 2016
" I am trying to see if all the parts are present to reassemble it but many of the castings are broken. A pic in the B'ham Post dated 8 Feb 1971 shows volunteers using a sledge hammer on cast iron to dismantle it!! No wonder so many parts are broken, and we have no pics of how the roof goes together or the intenal structure - we dont have any of the porcelain. "

So it was definitely at Blists Hill on 21st September 2016
dismantling cast witha sledge hammer,what a moron, and nothing to point percy at.is not good.
at least there are some very good cast iron welders in brum
 
I don't remember many gents urinals having anything made out of porcelain, the whole structure was usually cast iron.
 
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