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Bull Ring until 1920s

Did an image search through the thread and don't think this pic is in it although possibly the same stalls from a different view in another pic in post#192. The pic below c1890 shows stylish looking Birmingham folk shopping for flowers ...
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A busy market scene long ago in the Bull Ring but one man looks rather downcast !

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Just come across this picture that is labelled "Bull Ring 1890" but is it? Doesn't look right to me. Any thoughts?
 

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I have same picture labelled as "Italian women buying onions on the corner of Jamaica Row"
 
It's the bottom end Smithfield Market, which I believe used to be the cattle market and for a while in the early 1900's was used as an open market area. The photo is taken at the corner of Jamaica Row and Moat Row in 1901 looking up Bromsgrove Street. The Building on the right at that time was the London City & Midland Bank. This photo was taken in 1973. it could possibly be one of Mike's when he was photographing the area in the early 70's.
 

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Mike,

It looked very like one of yours.

Here is another image of the Cattle market taken around the same time as the photo in question, this one looks like it was taken in Moat Lane leading up to Moat Row on the opposite side of the market.

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I do not know which market the photo refers to so I hope this is the correct thread.
 
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I have come across this picture and the only information with is the number 1812. Could that be the date/year of the drawing?? I am assuming it is the Bull Ring.
 
Yes Stitcher it's the Bull Ring and St Martin's Church depicted in 1812. This drawing is on the Getty Images site and it has (1887) in brackets. Apparently it's a print which appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1887.

Does anyone know if this means it was an old drawing from 1812 or does it mean it was a drawing depicting the 1812 Bull Ring produced retrospectively in 1887 ? Viv.
 
Thanks for that Vivienne and Mike. I am getting down these pieces of paper/pages now but a lot of what is left does not have much info with it.
 
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Referring to the photo at 125 and Vivs' comment at 126 I think that this is a penny farthing cycle. I doubt if it belonged to the old chap leaning over the water trough however.. A pity that the back wheel is hidden by the trough .
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The drawing of St. Martins (1812) is has all the appearance of the church in 1812. The tower was rebuilt later but in 1873 rebuilding of the main structure commenced giving, more or less, what can be seen today.
 
That's strange. Have searched for "Bull Ring" in Illustrated London News nd cannot find it at all. the search gives 92 hits. One shows a closr view of St Matins, with the Bull ring in front, but this picture did not turn up. Would have searched for St Martin's , but that gave over 1000 hits
 
I'm sure it is a reasonable representation, as the book on the St Martins excavations includes it and describes it as st martins in 1812
 
Revpost #140. Here's a photo of the page on the Getty Images site. It says the image aappeared in the Illustrated London News on 26 March 1887. Don't know why they give January 01 1887 at the start of the paragraph as well. Viv.

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Looking closely it seems that the British Newspaper website is missing a number of issues around then, including that one
 
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