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Then and now pics of brum

thanks richie..i think you may well be right about that pic...

so pleased the newhall st pic means somthing to your family history carolina....
 
I think the hotel mentioned in richie's pictures must be the Sydenham hotel. would anyone like to confirm this ?
mike
 
here are a few more folks..

NEW STREET...
 

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New street
 

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Union street
 

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Snow hill
 

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Dog and duck..holloway head
 

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Aston village..
 

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Shaftmoor lane
 

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Canal wharf...breedon cross
 

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CROOKED LANE..

1886..looking from the high st..it was in this narrow thoroughfare in the 1830s that john cadbury rented a small factory..


martineu square 1975..it begun in 1883 and cut off a large part of crooked lane..
 

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I've got several Then and Now books, including:
"Birmingham Then & Now" by Mark Norton, "Central Birmingham Through Time" by Eric Armstrong & Vernon Frost and "Birmingham Up Town Through Time" by Mac Joseph, Ted Rudge & John Houghton.

All three are very interesting. Most of the "Now" photos are from 2009 and 2010. The "Then" pictures are from up to and before the 1970s.
 
hi ell...all i can say is thank god fo pencils. the paint brush and then the camera... we are indeed indebted to those who took the time to capture our history in one form or another..

lyn
 
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