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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now move around to the famous Hockley Underpass - constructed many years before the road was actually constructed but a bit of...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Heading back towards the roundabout and the new road layout with lots of traffic lights.
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Moving back now to the redevelopment around Icknield Street, ( have a look at #1,945) and we now see the road as it looks like today.
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now look further up Cornwall Street and again we can see the wide variety of building up the road , grand premises most double...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now turn around and look at the other end of Cornwall Street, another corner building with a turret type building stone window...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    next we have a general view up towards Colmore Row, showing the wide variety of buildings note the modern building at the top of the...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Bit further up and we come to the corner with Cornwall Street, fine building with so much happening, from the left, entrance with almost...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now have a name long gone Bradford and Bingley Building Society - this became a Bank and then was nationalised in 2000 with its...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road. We...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now move onto Roll 74 - We start with a view of Great Charles Street - not sure much has changed here, a grey wet Birmingham day in...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Last one off this Roll and this is the demolition of the last building from the Spitfire production at Castle Bromwich taken is 1992.
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    This is just a quick one Chandos Road , Moseley, not sure if there is an significance to the picture - looks a bit tidier these days.
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx reacted to mikejee's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Not sure when the photo was taken, but in 1973 it ( nos 111-119) was occupied by William Harvey & Co, ships lnternp makers, and...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    My notes have this as Old Stratford Place off the Moseley Road - tracked it down on streetview and it looks a loveley building set on...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    moving down Bissell Street and we come to Pig and Whistle - it seems to have doors bricked up and the only entrance is at the other end...
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