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Prescott Street All Saints

Astoness

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hi folks...would anyone have a little map please showing me where prescott st...all saints area is was....and does anyone know if its still there...im now searching for any pics of it....

cheers...

lyn:):)
 
thanks mike...so its next to hingeston st...ive just found out then that my dads mom and dad and moms grandad lived only a street apart in 1930..

cheers mike...

lyn:)
 
Astoness said:
hi folks...would anyone have a little map please showing me where prescott st...all saints area is was....and does anyone know if its still there...im now searching for any pics of it....

cheers...

lyn:):)
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HI, If you look up " Cathy come home" you will find then and now photos with presscott st shown
 
hi nick since i made that post i have found photos of this street ive also seen cathy come home.....thanks for the map as well mike i know hingeston st has been shortened a lot but did not realise that prescott st had completely gone..

lyn
 
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Astoness said:
hi folks...would anyone have a little map please showing me where prescott st...all saints area is was....and does anyone know if its still there...im now searching for any pics of it....

cheers...

lyn:):)
Lyn, I was born in 1952 at Coralie St, which was next to Presscott street.
If you know where to look you can see where Presscott St was its been renamed.
If you look up "Reel streets" you can see a "now and then " photo.
I would be happy to meet you at the site and explain where Presscott St was.
If you want to take up my offer just send me a note and we can arrange a time and date.
To me its still home.

Nick S Phillips.
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Astoness said:
hi nick since i made that post i have found photos of this street ive also seen cathy come home.....thanks for the map as well mike i know hingeston st has been shortened a lot but did not realise that prescott st had completely gone..

lyn
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Lyn, I was in the area yesterday, if you know where to look you can see where Prescott St was.

Nick S Phillips
 
hi nick yes i am sure i would find it ...just had a look at the scottish overlay maps...shame the whole of prescott st has gone:(

lyn
 
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hi nick yes i am sure i would find it ...just had a look at the scottish overlay maps...shame the whole of prescott st has gone:(

lyn
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Hi Lyn, not sure what "Scottish overlay maps " are, I was born in Coralie St in 1952. I still feel at home in area. If you look at "Reel streets" "Cathy come home" you will find then and now photos.
If you know where to look you can see where Prescott St was, Which I would be willing to show anyone that's got any interest in the old streets of Birmingham.

Nick S Phillips.
 
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Hi Lyn, not sure what "Scottish overlay maps " are, I was born in Coralie St in 1952. I still feel at home in area. If you look at "Reel streets" "Cathy come home" you will find then and now photos.
If you know where to look you can see where Prescott St was, Which I would be will to show anyone that's got any interest in the old streets of Birmingham.

Nick S Phillips.
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Hi Nick, fellow Brookfields lad. I used to live in New Spring st.
 
Astoness said:
here you go nick a great little tool ...all you have to do is to move the blue dot which will then make the map fade in and out from a map of when the streets were there to what is there now..ive spent hours using this facility...i have hopefully left it on prescott st...enjoy

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Many thanks for the map, I wish I could make it work. In my head I can still see the streets around Coralie St and Prescott St. I am pleased that I've been able to show a number of people where streets were.

Thanks
Nick S Phillips
 
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Many thanks for the map, I wish I could make it work. In my head I can still the streets around Coralie St and Prescott St. I am pleased that I've been able to show a number of people where streets were.

Thanks
Nick S Phillips
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Here is a view you may well remember, Wilkes Chemist (far left) was on the corner of George SWilkes chemist corner of PS GSW & HS 1956.jpgBrookfieldsMap #1.jpgt West & Prescott Street.
 
A rather later image, Prescott Street was again far left of image next to the metal railings.

The second image was on the corner of where Ellen Street met Prescott Street.

Hingeston Street George Street West Prescott Street 2002.jpgEllen Street Prescott Street Corner 2002.jpg
 
ok rosie just have to pop up the shops and i will put them on ..not really looked at them closely even though i have had them for over a year but you could be lucky if no 43 is showing...must also check my records for a number as my grandad and gt grandad were also in prescott st...lyn...update my grandfather and great grandfather was living at no 197 on the 1911 census
 
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Thank you so much lyn, they are really good, so clear too. The roadway is very clean and the houses look as though they had been looked after.
rosie.
 
rosie said:
Thank you so much lyn, they are really good, so clear too. The roadway is very clean and the houses look as though they had been looked after.
rosie.
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happy to help rosie...yes in those days although folk didnt have much in general i would say that what they had they took pride in....could not afford to waste... and on the whole our streets were very clean as not much was thown away...sad to say unlike some streets now which have become massive dumping grounds...such a shame after all the pride people once took..

lyn
 
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happy to help rosie...yes in those days although folk didnt have much in general i would say that what they had they took pride in....could not afford to waste... and on the whole our streets were very clean as not much was thown away...sad to say unlike some streets now which have become massive dumping grounds...such a shame after all the pride people once took..

lyn
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Lyn, you have made my day. I can remember all the locations.

One photo looking up Prescott St Laurels on right my parents shop on left next to gas lamp, when I was around 13 they moved the lamp I went to lean on it but it had gone.
Looking down the street, shows the our shop on the right I don't remember the house next door and the shop been bordered up, that shop never had any electricity. Another photo shows the our sitting room window missing, we had a fire in 1968.

Lyn, many thanks

Nick S Phillips
 
hi nick..if you are happy then so am i...i know only to well the feeling we get see seeing old photos of where we lived...correct me if i am wrong..i thought you lived in coralie st or did you live in both :rolleyes:

lyn
 
Astoness said:
hi nick..if you are happy then so am i...i know only to well the feeling we get see seeing old photos of where we lived...correct me if i am wrong..i thought you lived in coralie st or did you live in both :rolleyes:

lyn
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Hi Lyn, you are correct we lived at 26 Coralie St which was on the corner of Prescott St with one side of shop/house in Prescott St with back door up the entry, shop door and house door in Coralie St. Your photos shows the shop in five photos and in one photo shows the two shop windows that were in Prescott St.

Lyn, once again many thanks

Nick S Phillips
 
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