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The firm of F Joiner, later F H M Joiner Ltd of 69 Water Street, Birmingham was a packing case maker whose premises adjoined the Metropolitan Theatre in Snow Hill. The buildings were built in the shape of an L, and had a frontage to both Snow Hill and Water Street.
These premises appear to be the subject of a recent reconstruction by developers, who have called them the Tram Sheds. The address is now 80 Water Street.
The section between Snow Hill station and Snow Hill had been occupied by a rolling mill, but that premises was lost with the enlargement of Snow Hill Station. The 1955 large scale ordnance survey shows a timber yard and an L shaped warehouse on the land on the South side of Water Street there. On March 2nd 1966 F H M Joiner Ltd of Water Street advertised for a Packing Case Maker in the Birmingham Daily Post.
This location is presently shown as the place of the Tram Sheds. So why the name? Developers are increasingly loosing track with historical accuracy, through creating names and titles with no connection to the past. Such a case is readily noticeable with the new waterside development in Wolverhampton called the "Banana Yard", which had taken an aspect of rail traffic, rather than considering the implications.
With Water Street, the developer noted that the building looked like a tram shed, instead of checking to see of any tram lines had been laid in Water Street.
But then, if they called the building the Packing Case Warehouse, may be it would not have the same effect!
The land between Water Street and the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal once had an important building that was known as Pickard's Flour Mill and this mill had an early steam engine for the grinding of the wheat into flour.
The building today
These premises appear to be the subject of a recent reconstruction by developers, who have called them the Tram Sheds. The address is now 80 Water Street.
The section between Snow Hill station and Snow Hill had been occupied by a rolling mill, but that premises was lost with the enlargement of Snow Hill Station. The 1955 large scale ordnance survey shows a timber yard and an L shaped warehouse on the land on the South side of Water Street there. On March 2nd 1966 F H M Joiner Ltd of Water Street advertised for a Packing Case Maker in the Birmingham Daily Post.
This location is presently shown as the place of the Tram Sheds. So why the name? Developers are increasingly loosing track with historical accuracy, through creating names and titles with no connection to the past. Such a case is readily noticeable with the new waterside development in Wolverhampton called the "Banana Yard", which had taken an aspect of rail traffic, rather than considering the implications.
With Water Street, the developer noted that the building looked like a tram shed, instead of checking to see of any tram lines had been laid in Water Street.
But then, if they called the building the Packing Case Warehouse, may be it would not have the same effect!
The land between Water Street and the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal once had an important building that was known as Pickard's Flour Mill and this mill had an early steam engine for the grinding of the wheat into flour.
The building today
