Then & Now

[Alf Rogers]

Really appreciating your side-by-side comparison photos, Brummy Lad! Wonderful, thank you!

 

[Pedrocut]

Another Then and Now from Birmingham Post of 1978. New Street from the junction of Pinfold Street Compared to the early 1900s.
Present Google view below.



Now

 

[Pedrocut]

Article from Birmingham Gazette January 1941, with present Google Earth view.

“The city possesses one of the best designed nursery schools in the country.”

One of the most striking nursery schools in the country is Brearley-street Nursery School, Birmingham. It is U-shaped, and all its classrooms have a sunny aspect. Children are seen getting on a friendly footing with old friends on the first day of the new term.

 

[Jaffa]

Erdington High Street..... Then & Now....
Photo 1 - My Great Grandparents outside their Central Cafe, from around 1906'ish.... Alongside what's there now... Ugh!
The cafe was originally next door to the Palace Theatre (later to become the Palace Cinema) on the High Street.

Photo 2 - Shows what replaced the 'Palace'.

Photo 3 - Is a mock-up to show where the cafe was in relation to the 'Palace'.

 

[Pedrocut]

The second picture of the ABC Palace Erdington is 1952, showing the Frank Sinatra and Jane Russell: "Double
Dynamite."

 

[Pedrocut]

The third picture showing the Palace advertises From Russia with Love which was advertised in 1965)
(Sorry not 1972 corrected thanks to Jaffa below, Goldfinger was on in January 1963)

 

[Jaffa]

The third picture showing the Palace advertises From Russia with Love which was advertised in February 1972.

I thought it was 1965?

 

[Richard Dye]

Erdington High Street..... Then & Now....
Photo 1 - My Great Grandparents outside their Central Cafe, from around 1906'ish.... Alongside what's there now... Ugh!
The cafe was originally next door to the Palace Theatre (later to become the Palace Cinema) on the High Street.

Photo 2 - Shows what replaced the 'Palace'.

Photo 3 - Is a mock-up to show where the cafe was in relation to the 'Palace'.

What we call: “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” particularly photo 1.

Thank you!