• Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.

    We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team

History of Vyse Street

Isabel Nelson

New Member
Hello all, I am a student at the Birmingham School of Jewellery, . There is a car park next to the Jewellery Quarter Train station. I wondered what this little car park used to be, was it a business ? was the building was demolished ? I would like to write my Dissertation on the area
 
Hi. So opposite 88 Vyse Street? It was rough ground in 1890, built on before 1904, buildings still there in 1960, and demolished since. My GG Grandfather owned and ran a jewellery workshop at 88 Vyse Street, 1888? til about 1920.
 
Used to be a night club there many years ago. Dont know if it still is but the land used to be owned by the Morrells who used to own the Rainbow Casino.
 
nice photo mike...yes the car park is behind the bill boards in your photo...

lyn
 
mike i was looking at the location of the pillar box on your photo and todays shot but looking again i think you are correct the buildings with the little slopes at the front have gone

lyn
 
Used to be a night club there many years ago. Dont know if it still is but the land used to be owned by the Morrells who used to own the Rainbow Casino.

Yes you are right about that - a paragraph from an obituary of Harry Morrall -

But he really made his mark when he turned his attention to entertainment venues, starting with the Rainbow Club, which was followed by the Ambassadors club and The Diamond nightclub in the Jewellery Quarter and the Rainbow Casino in Portland Road.
 
yes quite right..memory jolted i now recall a friend mentioning the diamond club on the spot where the car park is now

lyn
 
I wouldn't think the Morralls owned the freehold of the land though, or even the building come to that?
Looks like they were originally residential and / or maybe small jewellers workshops?
 
#34 Vyse Street looks right for the position of the empty plot on Streetviiew. Viv.
 
No surprise here. Jewellers, Bailey & Hutchinson, had been based here until c1893. Viv.6DFB1744-BF19-4044-B88B-167A4E3F46AC.jpeg
Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
Hi, I used to work with my dad ,George Moore, diamond setter ,37 vyse street and we used to use the car park and it is behind the bill boards.
We was charged £5 for 2 cars and was collected by a chap called Dennis for the morralls..this was from around 1983.
Darren Moore
 
Hi. So opposite 88 Vyse Street? It was rough ground in 1890, built on before 1904, buildings still there in 1960, and demolished since. My GG Grandfather owned and ran a jewellery workshop at 88 Vyse Street, 1888? til about 1920.
Hi GeoFereby
I hope you don't mind me contacting you. Just found your contribution on the forum. I have been researching 88 Vyse Street workshops between 1895-1920 on behalf of my wife's grandfather Wilfred Lowe who was a Seal Stone Engraver until he went away to serve in WW1 between 1916-1919. When he returned by 1921 he returned to his trade at 100 Vyse Street ON OWN ACCOUNT.

Recently we have found another Seal Stone Engraver William Campbell working at 88 Vyse Street in 1895 Kelly's who might have trained my wife's grandfather either at 88 Vyse St or later at 100 Vyse St. In 1913 & 1915 Kelly's William Campbell had moved to 100 Vyse St.

My questions:-

- what was the name of your GG Grandfather who ran the jewellery workshop between 1880 -1920?
- did he keep records of who worked at 88 Vyse St?
- if so did the names of William Campbell or Wilfred Lowe appear on any of your records with dates?
 
Back
Top