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John Bright Street

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this is interesting..its a plan sheet for the developement of john bright st..horsefair and suffolk st...note the greys ciggarette bill board..

courtesy of carl chinn

astoness
 
I've taken the liberty of tweaking this a bit, Astoness.

It could benefit from a higher definition scan to bring out more of the detail.

Chris
 
A nice view of another long lost scene, Astoness.
Note the Ladywood route tram emerging from Holloway Head, Smallbrook Street would be off to the right opposite that, behind the parked car. A Bristol or Pershore Road tram is coming down John Bright Street towards the photographer
The view now from this spot in Horsefair would be of a huge traffic island with a Chinese pagoda in the centre - a bit different, eh?
 
sometimes Lloyd when i look at the then and now pics i can hardly beleive they are one and the same place......glad you like that one anyway....

lyn
 
I probably loaned these from Phil. I've searched long and arduously for street scene's of this corner and they are very rare occurrence. The new building was taken on 2007.

Bob
 
Thanks Bob

Not really what I was after but still very interesting none the less. Thanks for posting them

Jim
 
bobsummers said:
I probably loaned these from Phil. I've searched long and arduously for street scene's of this corner and they are very rare occurrence. The new building was taken on 2007.

Bob
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I have a photo of this junction in Chetwins days, but you can only see the "Chet" in the name and therefore only half the frontage. Is that any good anyone?
 
Here's the item promised, with Chetwyns on the left.It appears that the purpose of the photograph at the time was to capture Hill Street, and the extensive roadworks at the time to make a turn into there easier.
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Found an old thread on JB Street, so I moved the above post to this thread. It's a good addition, and how interesting that Pathe had premises there.

Unfortunately, all earlier photos on this thread have now gone.
 
Very pleasantly surprised about some of the buildings in JB Street. It's not a street I've walked along very often. Some of the buildings are listed, but there are unlisted buildings of interest too, such as the old Eye Hospital (1881) in Mike's first photo post #18.


The listed building below has so many good features.
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JOHN BRIGHT STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B1 5.11.81 Nos 81 to 87 (odd) 15.10.81 and Nos 89 and 91 SP 0686 NE 33/41 II GV 2. Circa 1900. Brick and yellow terracotta. Three storeys plus attic; 2 bays separated by polygonal turrets now only through first and second floors plus the canted corner and the return on Lower Severn Street. Ground floor with modern shop front. First floor with 4 broad windows with ause-de-panier heads and intermittent voussoirs. Second floor with, on the left, 2 shallow triangular bay windows beneath an entablature above which rises a gable with a canted bay window within it and, on the right, 4 windows with 3-light mullioned upper parts and heads in the rhythm flat: 2 segmental: flat beneath a parapet, above which rises the roof with modern skylights in it. The corner and return on Lower Severn Street generally similar but with a second floor acutely angled triangular bay window on the corner rising up to stand at attic level in front of the steep gable.
 
I was familiar with John Bright Street in 90s as I worked part time at the Ikon Gallery which is where they were before moving to the old school building in Brindley Place.

On one of the occasions we had a big mail out to do, stuffing envelopes etc and needed more space we were given permission to use a room in the basement of the old Hospital building opposite, that was when the Birmingham Royal Ballet had their offices there.
 
The left hand end part of this building in post 26 in 1950's housed the British School of Motoring that I mentioned in post 24.
 
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