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Birmingham Demolition.

Hope whatever replaces these structures are an improvement. Not an attractive corner of the City. I suppose many of our forebears said the very same thing about some buildings we regret were demolished by them in the past. Viv.
 
Not sure why Horsencart posted that, as New Street Station on Queen's Drive / Station Street is long since done / replaced.

This was in December 2016.



There is better access steps / ramps from the Southside entrance.

Took a new photo of this side from Station Street. This is the current view.

 
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Oakview (former retirement homes) on the Wake Green Road in Moseley, near Mayfield Road is being demolished. Not great views, these taken from the no 1 bus. Trees were also in the way.





 
The Peugeot site in Digbeth looks completely demolished. A mess of twisted steel!

Alcester Street and High Street Deritend corner from the X2 bus.

 
I wonder what percentage of Birmingham has been demolished in the last half century? Not just the city centre but suburbia with particular reference to former large industrial sites and slum clearances.
 
The problem today is that these old houses with massive gardens don't stand a chance of surviving. Once a developer gets a hold of two or three properties next door to each other they can built an apartment block (flats in other words) that can contain up to 50 apartments that will sell for a minimum of £150.000 each and that's £7.5 million gross. There has to be a tidy profit in there somewhere.
 
Quite a few buildings have been demolished to be replaced by new housing. Handsworth Dairy was a a case in point

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Quite a few buildings have been demolished to be replaced by new housing. Handsworth Dairy was a a case in point

Redeveloping old commercial sites for housing in my opinion is a good thing, as there is certainly enough of it about and if we are honest there is little likelihood of it ever being used again for commercial purposes. It is a different matter when they demolish perfectly good houses in certain areas just because they can capitalise on property prices in that area. What they are in fact doing is building the slums of the future.
 
This Secret Garden view from the Library of Birmingham showing the changes along High Street Bordesley in Digbeth, now that Renault and Peugeot have gone. Just Enterprise Rent-a-Car visible between both sites. Rest of the Bull Ring Trading Estate remains though.

 
Lionel House on Lionel Street might get demolished. Was a Royal Mail building and had a Sir Rowland Hill blue plaque there.





View at the back of the Birmingham Chest Clinic might open up.

 
Oakview (former retirement homes) on the Wake Green Road in Moseley, near Mayfield Road is being demolished. Not great views, these taken from the no 1 bus. Trees were also in the way.





Better known to many of us in Moseley for decades as the notorious Palm Court Hotel. Full of sad people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and often physical disabilities as well. Yes, it fulfilled a need that no one else did but at a price - Moseley Village full of very aggressive begging which became a serious problem as well as drinking.

Changed its name and image I think. Was this when it was revamped as Oakview?
 
There is still alcoholics hanging round the benches in Moseley Village, even though there is no drinking signs around!



At least the Kings Heath community groups going around picking up litter in Kings Heath, Moseley and Balsall Heath!
 
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