BordesleyExile
master brummie
Well spotted, Mike.
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TOPSYTURVEY
brum
If it could talk i bet that archway could tell a few tearjerkers.Our Mom told us a few.
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oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
Hi Lyn - I've just spent a very enjoyable hour or so looking again through all your pics in this thread. Many thanks for your time and effort scanning them and putting them on. My favourite is the Colmore Row 1930 pic in Post 243, the bowler hatted gent striding across the road, blossom on the trees, and One-Way street signs way back then - just a few of the interesting things in that pic.
I see you've just posted some more in the last hour !
Thanks again
oldmohawk
I see you've just posted some more in the last hour !
Thanks again
oldmohawk
lynne webb
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
On the St. Pauls photo, can someone tell where Ludgate Hill is please.
lynne webb
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Thanks Dek I can get my bearings now..Lynne
Ludgate Hill is either the road leading vertically off the picture in the middle up; or the one leading vertically off the picture below us down. Unfortunately the ordinary A-Z is not very precise with the positioning of the nave and steeple. Maybe one of us has the early Victorian maps which set out the pathways in the churchyard?
lynne webb
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
I thought it was the bottom,because i thought the picture may have been taken from the GPO tower.
Lynne.
Lynne.
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ETRAHXZ
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astounding.
that was all stone, brick, iron, oak.
destroyed under false pretences by miscreants who made off as bandits.
the mediocrity are the paid such who concoct replacements-improvements with, alas, truncated minds
routinely educated beyond their natural intelligence.
easily capitalized on.
such edifices were products of interminable labour as collective genius wealth.
they were destroyed quickly and replaced with miserable items.
it is a splendid idea to amass a wealth of pictures and written and audio-visual (still and moving) depicting what was
lost to abhorrent scurrility and mount a permanent exhibition so that those with eyes to see and ears to see and horse sense to boot will wonder in perpetuity.
there are some marvelous photos in the SFPL LHS taken by half plate and full plate cameras in the latter part of the mid 1800s.
the focus, depth of field is a sheer wonder as it was all slow shutter speed!
Rod Birch posted a triptych of the Bull Ring - where it is on this site I'll have to suss - then that.
THX Astoness for these astonishing px garnered from the Mail. Presumably the Mail & Despatch.
What happened to the Birmingham Sketch magazine (glossy piece)?
Also the Birmingham Post was high quality on the reprography.
that was all stone, brick, iron, oak.
destroyed under false pretences by miscreants who made off as bandits.
the mediocrity are the paid such who concoct replacements-improvements with, alas, truncated minds
routinely educated beyond their natural intelligence.
easily capitalized on.
such edifices were products of interminable labour as collective genius wealth.
they were destroyed quickly and replaced with miserable items.
it is a splendid idea to amass a wealth of pictures and written and audio-visual (still and moving) depicting what was
lost to abhorrent scurrility and mount a permanent exhibition so that those with eyes to see and ears to see and horse sense to boot will wonder in perpetuity.
there are some marvelous photos in the SFPL LHS taken by half plate and full plate cameras in the latter part of the mid 1800s.
the focus, depth of field is a sheer wonder as it was all slow shutter speed!
Rod Birch posted a triptych of the Bull Ring - where it is on this site I'll have to suss - then that.
THX Astoness for these astonishing px garnered from the Mail. Presumably the Mail & Despatch.
What happened to the Birmingham Sketch magazine (glossy piece)?
Also the Birmingham Post was high quality on the reprography.
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ETRAHXZ
Guest
A huge building, splendidly built. Can you believe matthew boulton tech clg on pershore rd was the replacement?
(not ancient house alongside)
that was a steep hill.
Opposite was a big cinema.
As a wee lad i ambled about the building when being demolished.
All the fictures and fittings were in place as though closed for xmas-ny.
I remember the quality of natural light was splendid. Lot of tile work.
Sculpted wood, wrought iron.
Labs galore. Brass, metal, glass.
Everything smashed to smithereens.
Would you also credit there were no scavangers?
The stuff would be worth a vast amount had it been whisked away and stored.
How people can be so inane as to destroy such, including king edwards (which i remember as
a toddler) and birmingham university and the medical school, is, in all seriousness, quite beyond belief to any decent person.
What is the construction l alongside and foreground l? Mayhap part of big theatre which was originally live stage.
Of course it so much easier to subsist of pharmaceutical tranquilizers, concocted predigested food.
(not ancient house alongside)
that was a steep hill.
Opposite was a big cinema.
As a wee lad i ambled about the building when being demolished.
All the fictures and fittings were in place as though closed for xmas-ny.
I remember the quality of natural light was splendid. Lot of tile work.
Sculpted wood, wrought iron.
Labs galore. Brass, metal, glass.
Everything smashed to smithereens.
Would you also credit there were no scavangers?
The stuff would be worth a vast amount had it been whisked away and stored.
How people can be so inane as to destroy such, including king edwards (which i remember as
a toddler) and birmingham university and the medical school, is, in all seriousness, quite beyond belief to any decent person.
What is the construction l alongside and foreground l? Mayhap part of big theatre which was originally live stage.
Of course it so much easier to subsist of pharmaceutical tranquilizers, concocted predigested food.
lynne webb
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Thanks for the map Mike,I thought the church path went to the left from Ludgate Hill..
Lynne
Lynne
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ETRAHXZ
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Jh
do you have an idea what happened to the virtual-brum archive after the expiration of peter gamble?
do you have an idea what happened to the virtual-brum archive after the expiration of peter gamble?
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ETRAHXZ
Guest
Perhaps it is the mantle of officiate but i am somewhat disorientated.
The tech (mat boulton) on suffolk street, which is quite a steep hill, from paradise circus to the horsefair.
The entirety razed by rampant and organized inanity. Madness comes in a multifarious miscellanea of guises but when it breaks loose then anything is possible and when fuelled by money then all are of the same religion.
Astonishingly on the n side before h.fair is a surviving splendid small synagogue and methodist church.
Up the slope is the greyhound which used make scrumpy on the premises.
The tech (mat boulton) on suffolk street, which is quite a steep hill, from paradise circus to the horsefair.
The entirety razed by rampant and organized inanity. Madness comes in a multifarious miscellanea of guises but when it breaks loose then anything is possible and when fuelled by money then all are of the same religion.
Astonishingly on the n side before h.fair is a surviving splendid small synagogue and methodist church.
Up the slope is the greyhound which used make scrumpy on the premises.
dek carr
gone but not forgotten
Sorry Lynne i got it wrong you are correct here is a photo taken yesterday from Ludgate Hill showing the steeple on the front left hand side
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lynne webb
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Thanks Dek, lovely photo,the church is looking really great.
lindaparry19
master brummie
hi is there any photo's of the old fish market up all the step's a friend asked me but said i had not seen any regards linda
