There is a pic of of the church as a woodyard in the post below and other information ...I remember the wood place being at the junction but when did the church go - I have no memory of it although I did know there was once one there.
This is how I remember Christ Church Perry Barr in the 1950s. It had become a timber merchant's yard.
I used to wait for a 188 Midland Red bus on the waste ground opposite those advertisement hoardings.
Looking down Vittoria Street towards Graham Street in the 1970s
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Looking down Vittoria Street today.
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Another Keith Berry photo taken in the 1970s as he wandered around the Jewellery Quarter. He had stopped in Hylton Street. Lessar Brothers making spectacles in their Lesbro Works. A company named Penns next door.
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Today and not too much change apart from the new building on the right. There is still a Spectacle Works.
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Is that the old tram terminus at the Yenton?Following in the footsteps of Keith Berry, he was in Sutton Rd, Wylde Green, during October 1980 and took a photo of this Pets & Gardens shop.
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Can't quite get a view from where he stood but the Pets & Gardens shop is still there and has expanded.
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It was the tram terminus ... and heres a quick 'Then & Now' ...Is that the old tram terminus at the Yenton?
Bob
Thank you. another sight I remember well.It was the tram terminus ... and heres a quick 'Then & Now' ...
It's 1931 and a tram approaches the terminus on Sutton Road. Broadfields Road on the right, and the Yenton Hotel over the road.
Today the Yenton is still there.
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Another Keith Berry photo taken in the 1970s as he wandered around the Jewellery Quarter. He had stopped in Hylton Street. Lessar Brothers making spectacles in their Lesbro Works. A company named Penns next door.
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Today and not too much change apart from the new building on the right. There is still a Spectacle Works.
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In the 1970s Keith Berry stood in Albion Street and photographed a building opposite in Legge Lane. It was originally a fire station but was being used as a garage by the date of the photo. The George and Dragon pub is on the left.
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Many of the old fire station buildings still exist but are being used for other activities and this building is no exception. It is now a children's nursery. The pub building has also been renovated and is now the 'Pig and Tail' bar and snacks.
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