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Camp Hill

I was tinkering a bit with Camp Hill during MOTD and, before hitting the wooden hills, I thought this photograph may interest some, particularly those interested in engineering : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/camp-hill/index.html#Test

I believe this to be a rare image in that it shows the Camp Hill Flyover being erected BEFORE the actual construction date. Any thoughts welcomed of course.

Night night
 
not sure which photo you mean keiron but quite a few before it was finished were posted on this thead some years ago

lyn

Camp Hill Flyover

The thread about the Dolls Club produced a great deal of information about, and cracking photos of, the Camp Hill Flyover that appeared next to it next to it. Chances are some folks that recall the 'tempory' flyover will have missed out because they wouldn't have expected it to feature in a...
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Astoness said:
not sure which photo you mean keiron but quite a few before it was finished were posted on this thead some years ago

lyn

Camp Hill Flyover

The thread about the Dolls Club produced a great deal of information about, and cracking photos of, the Camp Hill Flyover that appeared next to it next to it. Chances are some folks that recall the 'tempory' flyover will have missed out because they wouldn't have expected it to feature in a...
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Lyn, you cannot have looked properly .. I have uploaded a few images of the bridge being constructed in a DIFFERENT location BEFORE it was erected between High Street Bordesley and Camp Hill. These images are not featured on the thread you mention.
 
Phil said:
Viv

The photo that you have posted is the one that started this thread, but it has one piece of information that the others lack, and that is the date of 1875. This beings some 5 to 8 years before K.E.G.S. opened making it entirely possible that the old post office was the site of the school.
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Nearly but not quite. The post-office was towards the left of this postcard view. The building to the right, however, almost certainly occupied part of the site used for the original school building. It was formerly the residence of the surgeon Henry Cox.
 

Camp Hill Flyover

Mike as you say that wasn't the one I recall, anyway I don't think I have ever been back to Bristol since 67 so it couldn't have been, What road was that on. Phil
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picture 1 Daily walk term time 1951-56 up from High St Bordesley
picture 3 As Boy Scouts we practiced urban tracking, involved chalk marks on pavements along this stretch of road and neighbourhood.
The properties on the left of "446" were the view from school art room windows, I was once complimented on an "impressionist style" painting I produced, not intended, I just couldn't draw any better, I had to look up what it meant, perhaps I should have said that I thought it was a compliment!
 
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devonjim said:
Was this the station corner of Moseley Rd and Highgate Rd
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Camp Hill Goods Station

Rail Around Birmingham takes a look at the changing face of the railway in and around Birmingham and the West Midlands, past and present. All disused and operational railway stations and lines are covered in detail with both historical and contemporary maps provided, photographs of the present...
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Today a frequent mention is made of 'land grabs'. Looking at the older maps of the original city it seems that Birmingham lead the field in earlier times. ;)
 
So would Camp Hill station be the terminus of the Birmingham and Gloucester railway?

I see from the map on #76 that there is a spur off to the left of the line beyond the passenger
station would that possibly have been for run round and servicing?
 
pjmburns said:
I don't know Camp Hill very well and this may muddy things but in 1868 Kelly's directory refers to a Post Office Receiving House. It seems to be further up the road away from the Ship. To confuse matters the numbering seems different as well.
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Hi Janice, I was intrigued by this so have done a little digging myself. I have posted some notes at www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/stratford-road/ which may help - or add to the confusion :confused:
 
The above link should take you to a map from the turn of the (19th/20th) century. If I've got this right you should see the goods station at the top with a web of different lines going off the main one. At the bottom of the screen there's a black blob on highgate road simply marked Sta. Both of these were called Camp Hill. The bottom one was Camp Hill/Balsall Heath a local passenger station and the top one is the goods station. They're not very close together. If you drag the map down you should be able to see Stratford Place and the Grammar School on the other side of Camp Hill/Stratford Road.
These maps can be very useful although there aren't as many as there appear to be.
 
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