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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Evening a few images for you this is Roll 80 The first few slides were taken around Saltley viaduct, the quality and descriptions are not amazing for the first few slides - 7 photos and only 4 entries for them!! also I don't know the area so I am not sure if they are of interest or not.
Saltley Viaduct looking up Alum Rock Road from Crawford Street the old bridge Saltley is the description for these first few
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We now jump to the Jewellery Quarter for the last two images - similar locations on both this been Vittoria Street. I am afraid this is all the information I have, and there is no year either. There is a notice on the hoarding asking pedestrians to use the other footpath. Just been up and down the road on Street view and find this is 68 Vittoria Street, with the construction of the new build under way.
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and this last picture for tonight is a better picture of 68 Vittoria Street with its distinctive layout of doors and windows. Owned by Frank B Scragg & Co - the company website tells us the following:
Frank B. Scragg & Company was established in 1933 as general brassfounders. The company began specialising in supplying the picture framing trade in the 1970's. Looking on streetview the nameplate to the left of the door is still in place.
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Just a question about the name Vittoria Street, was it a spelling mistake in the distant past or was Vittoria some notable local? :blush:
 
It often amazes me how often a location has not changed in 30+ years, here we are standing with our back to Vittoria Street looking down Regent Street - you can just make out the street sign on the left. I don't have a date for this picture but others on this roll are from 1993 so we can assume this was taken the same year.
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Now if you know central Birmingham and can recall Oozell Street this is the view you would have had before Brindley Place, Sea Life Centre and all the Business quarter was built, and really amazes me as to how the City has changed, there is a canal there somewhere and the Post Office Tower is peeping out behind the Convention Centre.
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Last one for tonight and the last in this location a view over the canal bridge and towards a new building near Farmers Bridge locks , again the foreground has changed so you would not recognise it, I imagine we are somewhere in Brindley place and certainly wouldn't get the view today.

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We are continuing with Roll 80 and the vague location details - we are now looking at " old buildings standing in Price Street " but we are not - looking on Google Street view and realising the road was too narrow I looked at the next parallel road which is Princip Street and there we have it - looking remarkably unchanged with most of the building still there and many For Sale - these were taken 22nd January 1993,

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From the previous view we now look behind us to the remaining part of Princip Street ( is this where the old Soho Pool warehouse used to be ? ) and the start of the construction of the build that is now on the corner . Apologies for the quality of the picture it was January .
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Stepping into Newtown Row and a few more pictures of the construction of the building - this is to be the site of Affinity Living Lancaster Wharf, and if you look at the pictures on-line and what the area used to be it is hard to believe this is now due to be another up and coming apartment site.
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One last picture of the corner and a much better one too. While the construction site is rather unintersting if we look across the canal we see another view that is no longer there . I haven't been to Birmingham for years, but when I did, I used to travel down Newtown row now I know buildings go up quickly but when did they all disappear!! (2017 apparently)
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We now move further along towards Newtown Row the entrance of the demolished building has been what we call sympathetically restored the remaining building has now gone .

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steve this is taken in princip st close to the junction of newtown row..i was hoping that the entrance to that old building would be retained but i am sure that when i went past a few weeks back it had gone...i am due a trip down there next week so i will confirm or not as the case maybe hope i am wrong..below is street view from 2020


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Along Lichfield Road, Aston, I couldn't fail to notice this chimney – it's been reduced in height and bears the name BROS LTD. Who were the Bros and what did they make here?IMG_7846.jpeg
 
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