View attachment 169696this was called bridal street
This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!View attachment 169782this was the front of goods yard onto Suffolk street.
That brings back childhood memories, when I lived at my grans in Selly Oak our #20 bus used to turn around using that building as the terminus, and you'd wait for the bus to come into Suffolk Street bus stop...the street was a cobbled surface...looked very dangerous when wet.This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!
Eric, I love this painting. The boat is just where the Adder was moored in 1966. As a young boy I sat on the roof at the stern and a man took a photo of meI love painting canals, here is another of Gas street Basin one of many I have done of this section. Eric