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Orwell Passage And Scotland Passage.

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Fabian

knowlegable brummie
Orwell Passage, is it being pulled down for this Beorma development?
Does anyone know where the name comes from. Ditto Scotland Passage.
I am gathering any information on the alleys and passages of the central parts of Birmingham with especial interest in the ones dating from the 1700s and even more interest in the mediaeval ones.
 
There was a good thread going once called alleyways and passageways, (I think it was called that) There was a lot of info and pictures. At the time it was a popular thread and I don't know why it stopped, perhaps it ran out of steam. You could do a search for it and you might find something of use in there. Doubt if there will be any pictures though, the site was hacked recently and most of the pics were lost.

Terry
 
I visited good old Brumagem on Friday last, wandered down Digbeth and turned left into Allison Street. The whole of that corner site is gone, even most of the rubble, but I could see where Orwell Passage had turned off Allison Street and entered the demolished site. But it has all gone. The umbrella works is restored and turned into housing.
I then tried to find Scotland Passage but this had long ago disappeared and been built over, unless I was looking in the wrong place.
 
As I have not lived in Birmingham for fifty years and I only get there twice a year, can anyone tell me if work has started on Beorma Quarter at the top of Digbeth?
 
I visited Birmingham today and found that on the Digbeth/Allison Street corner, work has commenced. They have excavated the ground level down and seem to have driven about four or five piles down into the earth.
Does this mean that the owners have found a hotel tenant because they stated that they would only develop on a pre-let basis. The only bit of Orwell Passage that remains is the stone sett section of road leading into the site which ends abruptly now at the edge of the excavation, but I managed to beg one of the stone sets which sits on our kitchen work top much to my wife's delight.
 
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