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Then & Now

Article from Birmingham Gazette January 1941, with present Google Earth view.

“The city possesses one of the best designed nursery schools in the country.”

One of the most striking nursery schools in the country is Brearley-street Nursery School, Birmingham. It is U-shaped, and all its classrooms have a sunny aspect. Children are seen getting on a friendly footing with old friends on the first day of the new term.


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Erdington High Street..... Then & Now....
Photo 1 - My Great Grandparents outside their Central Cafe, from around 1906'ish.... Alongside what's there now... Ugh!
The cafe was originally next door to the Palace Theatre (later to become the Palace Cinema) on the High Street.

Photo 2 - Shows what replaced the 'Palace'.

Photo 3 - Is a mock-up to show where the cafe was in relation to the 'Palace'.
 

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Jaffa said:
Erdington High Street..... Then & Now....
Photo 1 - My Great Grandparents outside their Central Cafe, from around 1906'ish.... Alongside what's there now... Ugh!
The cafe was originally next door to the Palace Theatre (later to become the Palace Cinema) on the High Street.

Photo 2 - Shows what replaced the 'Palace'.

Photo 3 - Is a mock-up to show where the cafe was in relation to the 'Palace'.
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What we call: “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” particularly photo 1.

Thank you!
 
Pedrocut said:
Article from Birmingham Gazette January 1941, with present Google Earth view.

“The city possesses one of the best designed nursery schools in the country.”

One of the most striking nursery schools in the country is Brearley-street Nursery School, Birmingham. It is U-shaped, and all its classrooms have a sunny aspect. Children are seen getting on a friendly footing with old friends on the first day of the new term.


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bit late with this pedro but thanks...all of my 4 children attended this nursery school and its still up and running...my mom worked there as a cleaner for some time

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Phil said:
This has been tried here a couple of times previously, but it seems most of the photos were lost when the site was hacked. As I have previously done this sort of thing elsewhere and I have some fifty or sixty photos I thought I would post them here. If you have any photos of a similar nature or some of those that were posted previously then please join in.

I suppose there is no better place to start than the Bullring through the years, this is something that I hurriedly knocked up some years back to illustrate something on another site. I think it is pretty amateurish, but obviously the council didn't think so because they nicked it for one of their webpages. The second photo shows the Bull that adorned the façade over the Queensway.
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My Nan had an off licence in Duddeston Mill Road in the late 50s/early 60s and it was near two tower blocks. I used to play with two lads who lived in one of them, brothers Raymond and Charlie (didn't know their surname). Happy days going to school with a Kunzle cake each day! I always remember the power station chimneys in the distance. If Raymond or Charlie read this - hello!
 
Combining two photos rather than comparing two photos, I made this "then & now" image of Bath St. The building shown, which was opposite St Chads on the corner of Bath St & Shadwell St was where in 1960, I started my part time job in the gun trade before I left school.
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Richard Dye said:
I remember booking my passage to the US and reading those signs as i walked into the travel agent to make sure they had boats going from Southampton to New York & yes I came steerage,
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Ah, memories galore! I booked my own passage with Ellis Travel Agency and sailed for New York on March 12th, 1958, arriving on St. Patrick's Day. I went steerage too - my cabin was D179, four decks down on the RMS Queen Elizabeth.
 
Pat Downey said:
Ah, memories galore! I booked my own passage with Ellis Travel Agency and sailed for New York on March 12th, 1958, arriving on St. Patrick's Day. I went steerage too - my cabin was D179, four decks down on the RMS Queen Elizabeth.
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I’m a little later: Sailed November 10, 1962 arriving New York November 15 1962 after a very rough night at sea on the SS United States. I still have still have slides that I took of the Statue of Liberty as we sailed up the Hudson River.
 
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