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Last one on Roll 54 - I will give you Bristol Road Northfield - but its still a bit vague - I can only add there are some serious telephone poles on the right !!

Picture two Even worse - hopefully someone has a better copy - any ideas?

Moving on to Roll 54 - loads of duplicates and these three images - I will post the separately so you can refer comments easily - but I have no idea although the last one does have the location along the bottom !! First up - lots of wires - a Bank on the left (?) and a chemist on the right -...

The last two pictures may be of interest to some - unfortunately it comes under the banner - middle ring road work - we know it is the Lucas end of the route but I don't know the area to make an educated guess. Its still 1991 by the way.

The next picture although rather dark shows the massive changes that has gone on in this area, the roadway is lowly moving on - the shutter is getting ready and more building to be cleared - another change to come is the demolition of the Lucas Building, seen here dominating the area

We has now crossed Constitution Hill and are looking back along the walkway to it.

Moving further up Key Hill now a few of the old buildings opposite the Cemetery, love the symmetry of the first building but notice as there is a slope the nearest end has a small round window , The taller building next to it also has some age with the metal framed windows.

We now move to Key Hill and one of the pillars and rear wall of the Cemetery, unfortunately if you turn to the right the land is exactly as it was left once the road works had finished - what once was a cark park is now an overgrown eye saw. You can alos get some idea of the slope on the road...

This picture shows the view up to Hockley Brook with the school in the background Rather dark but shows the location . EDIT: Icknield Street school - Thanks Lyn

One of the many casualties was this small garage - obviously been there years, the brick built frontage was original and large extension at the rear seems to have evolved over time - like all the missing fencing too !!, Now replaced by the Jet garage, and the bus stop is no longer there -...

Next we seem to be standing on the central reservation looking down Icknield Street, the bridge in the distance is the replacement for the original single carriageway one although the building are still in place - this is what was there _-...

We now turn around to look back up the road with the underpass and Key Hill, we can see from the signs the delays and inconvenience that the project caused and moving from A to B even locally would have been a challenge - but none of this stopped the locals going shopping. I also noticed the...

Crossing what is now the traffic island and we can see the work to create the roundabout, Lodge Road is to the left of the white building hiding behind the Belisha Beacon , and Heaton Street now goes to the right of the lampposts. Took a lot of studying to notice the blocks of flats are no...

Now at the bottom of the road where Key Hill and all the other roads join as I said piles of rubble and a lot of destruction and lots of wavy orange fencing, Lodge Road straight ahead

We now move onto Roll 53 - this is mainly covering the construction of the Middle Ring Road, taken in August 1991with lots of rubble, fencing and destruction. As most of the images cover works the locations are vague - I will post the images and if I know where they are I will put them in. The...