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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

SteveBhx said:
Now this is the subway on Corporation Street corner of Bull Street from 1971, much changed around here, just opened and all the shops to let - I think there was a Tandy in one of these. Front of a Morris Minor

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Stone- dri were at 78 Corporation street. Today Poundland occupy 76 - 77 so I assume this is the right corner.
Bull Street on the left of the shot heading to the side of Poundland.
 

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SteveBhx said:
This is not strictly a garage its 160 Handsworth New Road in 1977 but there seem to be repairs going on . Cortina with a battered front and a tired MG. Will not make a guess on the rest but the White Escort looks nice. No boxes here.

Interesting shape to the building where the step ladders are and a nice view down to the Church - for the smokers among you try not to look at the price of cigarettes.

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Still recognisable and now "tinting windows".
 

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SteveBhx said:
This is not strictly a garage its 160 Handsworth New Road in 1977 but there seem to be repairs going on . Cortina with a battered front and a tired MG. Will not make a guess on the rest but the White Escort looks nice. No boxes here.

Interesting shape to the building where the step ladders are and a nice view down to the Church - for the smokers among you try not to look at the price of cigarettes.

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Behind the MG could be a NSU Ro80, and behind the Cortina is a BMC J2 van, which appears to have GPO Telephones engineer’s van modifications, so is likely badged as a Morris.
 
SteveBhx said:
Finally for today 248 Bordesley Green 1971, firstly the man up the ladder with the sign, think he is tidying it up, next the cars on the forecourt - won't name them my nerve has gone !! A busy street and note the cobbled drop downs to the road.

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A Mk4 Zephyr, an Anglebox and a Hillman Super Minx on the ramps. The car almost obscured by the big Ford is a Standard Vanguard Phase 3.
 
SteveBhx said:
This is Sandy Lodge 19 Sandon Road Edgbaston from 1975, like the Wm. Youngers sign and the sunburst gates next door. Unusual Castellated front and a leaded porch. Vauxhall Viva on the front - dad had a one of those ROA777R .

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I had to resort to map to locate this - corner of Carisbrooke Road and Sandon Road. No longer there.
 

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Planning permission for 19 Sandon Road to become a lodging house 12 July 1956
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Permission to demolish 17 - 19 in a conservation area granted in 2003.
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SteveBhx said:
This is not strictly a garage its 160 Handsworth New Road in 1977 but there seem to be repairs going on . Cortina with a battered front and a tired MG. Will not make a guess on the rest but the White Escort looks nice. No boxes here.

Interesting shape to the building where the step ladders are and a nice view down to the Church - for the smokers among you try not to look at the price of cigarettes.

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Behind the van: NSU Ro 80?
 
Okay, can Johnfromstaffs, or anyone else for that matter, identify the car in the bottom right hand corner of the NSU photo, #1227?
 
Quiz - I will provide the answer in the picture I post tomorrow, unless some knows sooner.

Before the redevelopment where in Birmingham city centre was there a large compass symbol with north point?

I didn't know and could not believe it when I saw the picture.
 
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Stone- dri were at 78 Corporation street. Today Poundland occupy 76 - 77 so I assume this is the right corner.
Bull Street on the left of the shot heading to the side of Poundland.
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Was the Midland Educational on this side of the road Janice, opposite Lewis’s, or have I lost my bearings? Sue
 
SteveBhx said:
This is not strictly a garage its 160 Handsworth New Road in 1977 but there seem to be repairs going on . Cortina with a battered front and a tired MG. Will not make a guess on the rest but the White Escort looks nice. No boxes here.

Interesting shape to the building where the step ladders are and a nice view down to the Church - for the smokers among you try not to look at the price of cigarettes.

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Interesting car behind the MGB, a N.S.U. RO80. These were powered by a twin rotor Wankel engine. Manufactured from 1967 until 1977.
 
NOTSHARP said:
I was working at Marks and Sparks (High Street) in the 1980's when the Co-Op was demolished. Somewhere, I have photographs, taken from the roof of M&S, when the contractor's crane collapsed.



Steve.
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That reminds me. Does anyone remember the tower crane that collapsed in Ladywood around 1961/62?
I was in big trouble for leaving the school playground at lunch time to have look.
I think the company building the flats was Bison.

NoddKD
 
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