Recent content by BrummieGeoff

An aerial photo of Edgbaston Road showing the houses between the Willows Road and Oakfield Road junctions .... dated 24 June 1946. Credit: britainfromabove

Ref Viv's original Post #1 : I can't identify where the building was located in Edgbaston Road, but here is another photo of it dated as 1892. And a painting by Warren Blackham that appears to be the same building .... identifying it as "Ball's House".

An earlier photo of 53 Wake Green Road .... I think when it was a residence called The Grange.

The house of Dr Freer at 41 New Street painted by Samuel Rostill Lines .... on the west corner of the Cannon Street junction. Listed in the 1823 Wrightson's Triennial Directory of Birmingham. We could probably make a complete street scene of early New Street from all the available paintings and...

Another interesting sketch of early New Street shops in Post #557 Viv. Looking at the directories this appears to be a view of the north side of the street with the Cannon Street junction on at the left. The 1849 and 1855 directories show the addresses of the buildings to be No. 40A "Engineers'...

This 1855 map shows the Museum Concert Hall. Strangely, the building tag also covers the site of the George Inn/Royal George Tavern on the corner of Digbeth and Park Street. N.B. It's a supplementary detail sheet to the Piggot 1855 map set, and also omits a row of buildings on the east side of...

If you're interested in the other side of the Coventry Road here is a wider view from the same photo.

Viv : I assume that these extracts have come from the book mentioned by Pedrocut in Post #100 .... "Recollections of New Street, Birmingham in 1817" by Mrs Lucy Benton (1877)? Do you know if any more of it appears online.

Excellent work Viv. It looks as though there is another old "panoramic map" view of this part of New Street that we haven't yet found. At first I thought it might be referring to the same sketch, but there are some significant differences in the description (one-storeyed Post Office and...

Good find Viv .... I'm not surprised that James wanted to get rid of that lot before moving!

It's very difficult to be sure Viv. Wrightson's 1823 Triennial Directory of Birmingham shows Samuel Dore - Boot & Shoe Maker - at #54 New Street .... so #53 may be the building annotated as "Sheldon Metal Warehouse" in the 1814 sketch. However, the street numbering appears to have changed by the...

Mike: I think it might be the "school-like" building indicated in the photo below .... so it could be the Board of Education Stores in Grosvenor Street.

I've been doing something similar Viv. I think this updated image shows the street numbering from an 1849 directory, and also where Bennett's Hill and Christchurch Passage were cut. By that date the Panorama site had been taken over by the "Society of Arts & Government School of Design". I...

Viv : I think the surname is Gottwaltz .... but it's not a common Brummie name and it has been misinterpreted (by me and others).

A very interesting annotated sketch of the top end of New Street dated 1814 that shows the Panorama and Post Office .... and other buildings in that part of the street. The sketch is from the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists collection, and is currently on display in the "Mapping the Archive"...