Many people out and about on a 1970s sunny day in the Bristol Road, Selly Oak with the Plough & Harrow visible on the corner of Chapel Lane. The university clock tower seems to loom over the scene but it is somewhat further away than it looks. The position of the traffic lights in the foreground suggest that the photo was taken from the corner of Oak Tree Lane.
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A Google street view from almost the same spot shows the clock tower looking further away. Since the date of the old photo a supermarket had been built on the left but the supermarket relocated and the building is disused. The site could eventually house a block of student flats.
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