• 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

Moor Street

Moor Street has some quite interesting and important businesses at one time. Given it was one of the city's major streets it was not line New or Corporation Streets being straight and wide but quite varying in its route. It also seems that many interesting side streets/passageways ran of it. A search will reveal those important company names that traded from Moor Street and the Gullets and Snickets thread probably has interest as well.
For the many new Members who are interested in the history of the city there is an amazing wealth of facts (sometimes fiction which usually gets corrected) to be found here.
 
Photo #6 has ”Henry Miles & Co, 27 Mincing Lane, London” (left). Is that another branch ? Was there a Henry Miles in Moor Street Birmingham ? Viv.

I wondered about that company and checked out the area in London, from Wiki...

Mincing Lane is a short one-way street in the City of London linking Fenchurch Street to Great Tower Street. In the late 19th century it was the world's leading centre for tea and spice trading. Wikipedia
 
Certainly is Lyn.

I’ve gathered together a few more Moor Street images which are scattered around the Forum. Viv.

98B5A5F6-D716-41C8-A124-4007326E0172.jpeg

This drawing is believed to be the same place as the image below. Dale End to the right and Moor Street to the left.

D9BE0A98-83BF-48B3-95AC-7C814E5F7F83.jpeg




This image was from the Moor Street Warehouse thread.
702A1DCC-E796-416D-82D3-A006AE14160C.jpeg


This was an unidentified photo from the Shoothill site (currently unavailable). It was posted by Oldmohawk and members identified it as Moor Street - from WW2,
78852908-DB0C-4655-9AAB-37AB10888410.jpeg


The following two images were posted by Oldmohawk and are from the Shoothill site (currently not accessible).
3B44BCCA-0A7E-4B4E-859F-CD9986A8612A.jpeg5D976909-0C64-4C5C-99FE-C5C80AC2B29E.jpeg

Finally, here’s a link to the Dingley’s Hotel thread which shows the hotel as it was in Moor Street. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/dingleys-hotel.2644/page-2


Viv.
 
Back
Top