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Morturn's latest activity
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We have now followed the new inner ring road down to New John Street West and Summer Lane and the the Texaco garage , in the process of... -
We now start heading back towards Hockley on the inner ring road - work is still ongoing but most of the infrastructure is in place...
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We now move to the other side of the bridge and see how big the building site is - there are barriers and piles of rubble everywhere...
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and a final closer look at the site and we can see in this picture that there is work to both sides of the road and they are loading and...
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Moving down Icknield Street we can see the work to remove the buildings and embankment, we can also see the the bridge across the road...
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Another location - hop over to Hockley and Pitsford Street to see how the inner Ring Road is coming along, we are now back to see the...
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Roll 56, first up looking up Avenue Road , to Aston Road North, nothing much to add quite a standard 1990's landscape - nothing left...
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Morturn replied to the thread Longbridge Factory.The roof construction of the ‘flight shed’ sounds like it was patent ‘Lamella’ roof, quite often seen in the construction of aircraft...
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Hi there! I was always fascinated by the building known as the 'Flight Shed' at the lower end of Lowhill Lane. It seemed an unusual...
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This street has a strange ghostly feel about it - this time non of the properties are boarded up, streets are empty no obvious damage -...
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This time the shop is on the corner of Stretton Street and again any uncovered windows have been broken. Judging by the size of the...
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Another corner another boarded up shop / cafe, with the HP factory off in the distance, there has been a failed attempt to board this...
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This corner shop has little items of interest- below the Kullar News sign is a carved stepped front, historic Embassy sign, ( who would...
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Now this looks like Aston Villas - nicely kept front gardens - privet hedge, wooden gate, small bay windows with sash windows upstairs...
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Everyone has gone, street light is still there and all it needs is tumbleweed !!, and yet there are still some features to note - If...
