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Bridge Street West

Thanks Mabz. No wonder I couldn't place the one showing the No. 8 bus - if this is about to cross Wheelers Street I can only ever recall Holte School and Lozells School being there. I had no idea Gerrard Street crossed Wheelers Street like that.

The second one, would that be the Gunmakers Arms?

Jules
 
jules i think gerrard st ran right across wheeler st stopping at alma. st..will double check that too....

lyn
 
Jules65 said:
Thanks Mabz. No wonder I couldn't place the one showing the No. 8 bus - if this is about to cross Wheelers Street I can only ever recall Holte School and Lozells School being there. I had no idea Gerrard Street crossed Wheelers Street like that.

The second one, would that be the Gunmakers Arms?

Jules
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Jules - Gerrard Street went from Burbury Street all the way through to Alma Street Aston. I know because after we left Defford Road to live in Burlington Street Aston, I was forever spending by bus fair and had to walk home from school.........
 
mike...can you touch up pics 1 and 4 please before i transfer them...

sorry to be a pain....

lyn
 
Thanks for that Mabz and Lyn. How about the second picture Lyn, does it show the Gunmakers Arms? I don't think its the Union and wasn't the Waterloo in Wills Street. The Gunmakers looks so different now with all the old houses gone. I wonder why they left it when they tore everything else down - is it listed?
 
Jules65 said:
Thanks for that Mabz and Lyn. How about the second picture Lyn, does it show the Gunmakers Arms? I don't think its the Union and wasn't the Waterloo in Wills Street. The Gunmakers looks so different now with all the old houses gone. I wonder why they left it when they tore everything else down - is it listed?
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Jules - Lyn will know as she has had her ticket from all the pubs around there.............
 
hi jules its deffinately the gunmakers..heres a recent pic of it..now this is where i come unstuck...again...lol follow down from the gunmakers...just by the orange beacon is another pub on the corner...ive zoomed in and i think its the something inn...or could it be the union pub..
 
no jules i dont that other poub you see is the union..if i remember the union comes before the gunmakers....

lyn
 
Hi Lyn, you beat me to it. Yes the pub by the orange beacon is not the Union. As you say the Union comes first, then the Gunmakers and then ? It definately looks like a pub. If you look at the first picture in that group you can see it a little more clearly.
 
I've looked again - do you think it could be the Belle View? Don't know if ever such a pub existed on Gerrard Street but the first word on the pub sign looks like Belle to me.
 
jules..yep its the belle vue...now was that on the corner of wheeler st maybe....we need astonian to log on...bet he would know...or we need a kellys look up...

lyn
 
jules it is the belle vue..so now we know for sure that its wheeler st running accross..just checked my pub pics and i have it....

lyn
 
Astoness said:
it is mabz...and the other shot is looking down brougham towards nursery road...note the same dog in both pics....
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Hi again Lyn. The 2nd photo of Brougham Street looking down towards Nursery Road. You can see a block of flats quiet clearly. My memory may be playing tricks with me but I cannot recall it being like that. Did Brougham Street cross Nursery Road and carry on further down nearer to the flats?
 
Astoness said:
jules it is the belle vue..so now we know for sure that its wheeler st running accross..just checked my pub pics and i have it....

lyn
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Thats great Lyn thanks. I must have been very young when they knocked it all down. My parents lived in Wheelers Street when they were first married in 1945.
 
hi jules the block of flats on the left of the pic is right...are you on about what looks like flats on the right of the pic...if so i thinks its a trick of the camera....brougham st finished at nursery road...

so glad you you like the pic s..i reckon they are great..ive just taken yet another trip down memory lane....cheers ray.

lyn
 
Just found another for you Gerrard St folks yom getin al excited.

I don't think I've got anymore from B18/B19/20

Goodnight folks ray
 
excited ray..i cant get me hat on..lol..this one is looking the other way...wheeler street running accross and the belle vue pub on the right corner....

amazing...thank you once again....and goodnight for now..

lyn
 
Thanks so much for those pic's

I have the same family who were are 139, bridge street west and 248, wheeler Street
so a great thanks

any Barr street, Boulton Road, or Newcombe Road??

please?
 
hi..another one of bsw...i wonder can anyone confirm that the building we see on the right of the pic is lucas....think it is as bsw ran accross gt king st...

lyn
 
If thats Burbury St on the left of the building then the building is the corner of M block GKS
 
Hi,

Could you tell me whereabout 313 Bridge St West was please? (nan lived at 1 back of 313 in 1910)

Ray
 
Ray
It was on the north side between Burbery St and wells St. will try and work out which house later.
Mike
 
Mike, thanks.

Looked at the bits of map I have. The part missing is the corner of Wells Street and Bridge St West. My part map goes to 304 (coming up from Wheeler St. On the opposite corner is Motor Cycle Works.

Ray
 
Ray
the numbering doesn't seem exactly to fit the number of buildings, in both the 1890 and 1913 maps (which are almost identical). however i am pretty sure no 313 was one of the two buildings marked in red on the attached 1913 map
mike

map_c_1913_showing_no_313_bridge_st_west.jpg
 
Mike, thanks again.

Nan gave that address on 1910 marriage certificate. My map is later than the one you posted so it looks like 313 was demolished to make way for Motor & Cycle Accessory Works.

Ray
 
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