This view of Holy Trinity shows the edge of Bradford Street (?)Camp Hill to the right, which today must be somewhere near the roundabout at (Old) Camp Hill. No date for the eBay postcard. Viv.
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Camp Hill
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Now found a 1954 Phyllis Nicklin photo posted by the late Phil on the Holy Trinity thread. It shows more of the buildings to the right. Was this the top of Bradford Street ? Viv.
A little history snippet about Camp Hill by Vivian Bird.
Viv.
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Source: British Newspaper Archive
jmadone
master brummie
Have a look at #1 Grove farm Fulford Hall thread. Same building but different picture.
How weird, but do you think the modern photo looks different for Fulford Hall looking at the chimneys?
BrummieGeoff
Sparkhill Lad
I think the building shown in #39 is Grove Farm .... located in Sparkhill, where Grove Road is now.
Here's another photo, tagged with a date of 1895.
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I’ve seen this c1900s image many times but not been entirely sure where it is in terms of today’s road layout. Looking at Google I see there’s was a derelict pub there on Camp Hill Circus (well 12 years ago, it was The Brewer and Baker). Is this where the Ship Inn was previously sited ? The place bears no resemblance to the old image, only Holy Trinity in the distance provides some clues. Viv.
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
is that the stratford rd junction of camp hill
Radiorails
master brummie
Yes, I think it is.
It certainly takes some working out as the roads have altered with the development of the roundabout (Camp Hill Circus), but I think Sandy Lane was the road to the right side of the Ship (later becoming part of Bordesley Middleway?), then Camp HIll to the left side of the Ship. So further to the left would it have been Ravenhurst Street ? Then would it make the road coming towards the photographer - away from the Ship - Stratford Road ?
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
#45 pic.stratford rd junction sandy lane ....... i remember the shops on the right just past the ship. thats were i took my saturday night suit to have it cleaned
BrummieGeoff
Sparkhill Lad
I don't think this fine old view of Camp Hill has been posted on this thread previously. It's a Samuel Lines sketch dated October 1823, just after Holy Trinity Church was built. I believe it shows the old Ship Inn on the right.
devonjim
master brummie
I feel secure with this view, the pavement on the right is where I poured out of school at 4.10pm in the 1950's.The tram lines were still there. My mind has not been confused with the "recent" developments. I expect buses to be yellow and blue, the occasional one to be red.
Hi Jim,
Memories of the 13A, 24, 36,37,44,44a, the Midland Red 150, and not to forget the occasional
150 Stratford Blue.
And there was a shop near the bus stops which used to sell Wagon Wheels when they were a proper
size and taste. I used to have one after school whilst waiting for the 36, and I still miss them now
(the Wagon Wheels, not the bus stops!).
And do you remember how the prefects used to patrol the gate in the mornings to catch anyone not
wearing a School cap. If you hadn't got yours, the trick was to waylay a friend, and get them to go round
to the Stratford Street North wall once they were in school, and throw their's over the wall to you.
Happy days
Kind regards
Dave
Memories of the 13A, 24, 36,37,44,44a, the Midland Red 150, and not to forget the occasional
150 Stratford Blue.
And there was a shop near the bus stops which used to sell Wagon Wheels when they were a proper
size and taste. I used to have one after school whilst waiting for the 36, and I still miss them now
(the Wagon Wheels, not the bus stops!).
And do you remember how the prefects used to patrol the gate in the mornings to catch anyone not
wearing a School cap. If you hadn't got yours, the trick was to waylay a friend, and get them to go round
to the Stratford Street North wall once they were in school, and throw their's over the wall to you.
Happy days
Kind regards
Dave
devonjim
master brummie
Dave, I used to get a 1d, yes 1d, bun from the shop just beyond the "Ship". I see the 37 now goes to Acock's Green, how confusing. I had to walk down Camp Hill to catch a Coventry Rd bus under the rail bridge, or by the boiled sweet shop, troach?
All a long time ago!
farmerdave
master brummie
I had a wide choice of buses to get me from Camp Hill back to Hall Green. Apart from the 37 there was also the 32 to Sarehole Road or Hall Green Parade. The 29A could also take me to Sarehole Mill and then a short walk down Sarehole Road. A 31A would also go to the Stratford Road end of Sarehole Road.
Radiorails
master brummie
Not to forget the 29 Highfield Road and in addition to the 150 Stratford upon Avon.there was 154 to Solihull,, 179 to Earlswood, and 153 and 183 to Monkspath and Cranmore Boulevard.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
And another picture…SHIP HOTEL, CAMP HiLL.
“ In the year before the CBT steam tram service was extended to College Road, Springfield, in 1899, an almost new Kitson 'Standard Improved' steam tram locomotive, No. 90, trundles towards the junction with Sandy Lane, on its way to the Sparkhill terminus, despite the destination board showing SPARKBROOK. When the area was developed after the opening of Camp Hill Goods Yard by the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway in 1841, the rebuilt Ship Hotel, which dated from around 1868. had a subtitled name which harked back to the English Civil War. This name was 'Prince Rupert's Headquarters - 1643', and they even had a statue of Prince Rupert in a niche below the Ship Hotel name. The pub was demolished in 1972 as part of a new road scheme for the area. (Whybrow Collection).
Birmingham before the electric tram by Harvey, D. R. (David R.), author. Publication date 2013
