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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    This picture is an old printers shop in Garrison Lane seems to be on its way out, no windows tiles off the roof and the old red and...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    apologies the skewed image - shows what I have to start with but also if I straighten it I lose the building at the top and with it the...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    This information is a recap for newcomers, I scanned a lot of negatives of these old images - see the initial post for more...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now move onto Roll 72 and something different to start and may be of use to someone although the information provided is a bit vague...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now have a bit of time travel to 1964 and a view of what this area looked like, and what was lost - lots of three and four storey...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    This is an interesting sign - showing the site where Arthur Conan Doyle lived , I cannot add to this as my noted read - old sign Aston...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    and we now turn around to look toward the City Centre, looking to the distance you can see the holes in the landscape - all the old...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    I know we have been up and down this road a few time this is a general view of the destruction, sorry redevelopment to improve the...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Next picture forms a theme as this was closed the week before - its The Avenue, Aston Street North, as you can see it is still intact...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Next we move to Thimble Mill Lane and Long Acre, this is the Prince Of Wales , not long closed but now boarded up and the windows broken...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Good morning apologies for the gap in posts, lot happened , but I will try and continue posting. I did notice a number of replies from...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Just edited the wording to the picture - now reads Heath Mill Lane !!
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    SteveBhx reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As an aside put this picture into an app that produces pencil sketches from pictures. Obviously an interpretation.
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We are now in River Street ( 28/29?) a back street unit offereing televisions ( to the trade!!) a close look above street level shows a...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Next picture is included as it may mean something to someone, looking boarded and bricked up on the ground floor but still surviving...
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