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    Dowding and Mills

    Inside dowding and mills around 1920.
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    Small Heath Park (Victoria Park)

    Small heath park(Victoria park) early 1900 s Small heath park lodge and the old pavilions. All around 1900.
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    Hurst Street

    Tony’s amusements hurst street October a1940.
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    The only one at the moment was the picture on message 93. I don’t think it will be to long before some more appear.
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    St John’s Chapel Deritend

    This is a really good picture with the golden lion pub in the front.picture &3 are inside St John’s.
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    St John’s Chapel Deritend

    This building of 1735 replaced an earlier chapel of 1380. By 1939 it had ceased to be used for worship and its fate was sealed when it was damaged by enemy bombing in 1940. It was demolished in 1947. The Bull Ring Trading Estate now occupies the site. This site has now been passed for rebuilding...
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    I believe when Substorm flow went down there in 2016 the water was higher . But the areas that date back to 1368 were not accessible then. If you search Substormflow and choose his Birmingham river rea walk you can see how it looked in 2016.
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    Next to the tunnel you can see the trickle of the river ray . Accessed from one of the old paths now locked .
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    The team that found them.
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    Workmen digging up Digbeth to make way for the new West Midlands Metro line have uncovered a secret passage leading to a historic Birmingham pub. Workers uncovered the circular hole when digging up the pavement outside The Old Crown, Birmingham's oldest secular building. Comment made by the...
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    The Old Crown Inn Deritend

    The tunnel, which dates back to 1368 and leads to Birmingham’s oldest pub the crown, We’re found when work began in 2022 .
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    Worcester Street

    I love this view with the big roof of new street station . At the top you see the market.
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    Bull Street

    The lamb and as it was as haywards drapers.
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    Bull Street

    These two maps don’t have dates but we’re a long time apart the first one shows welch end . But not bull street. Then the later one shows corporation street as proposed new road. Very interesting when you look closely at them both.
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    Bull Street

    If you look close at the picture . The sign says union passage so this means it must have gone before I can rember . In the. 1960 all those buildings were new in that part of bull street . I assume it would be were you went across bull street heading towards oasis market.
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