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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

87 Hurst Street - hard to imagine that this is in the location that it is - standard run of the mill high street shops, electrical and a cafe !!
First floor has a before and after look - on the right the before small bay window on the first floor and on the left replaced with one large window - we can assume the electrical shop was once two properties very much like that on the right.
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Mark Tooze said:
I drove one of my daughters to a Xmas party in the city centre a few weeks ago. After the satnav took us up a dead end (roadworks) by Baskerville House, I told her "I know exactly where we want to go, but have not got the faintest idea of how to get us there"..... If you go that way I recommend a canary or a pigeon or something similar to point the way.......
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SteveBhx said:
The description for the next set of buildings is equally vague - In and around the Fox Hurst Street. so to start we have something recognizable - Australian Bar corner of Hurst Street and Bromsgove Street. Fantastic two/ 3 storey brick built corner property - two distinctive styles of building here, to the left we have a standard three storey building but on the corner we have a massive window above ground floor. Still there as the Missing Bar and all feature retained.

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This pub was popular in the 80s great music
yes another pub i used
 
so now we move onto progress- of a sort - we have our back to the Hippodrome Theatre, and look across the road, to fix the location we have the Rotunda and the back of Smallbrook Queensway - this is the start of the Arcadian Centre, not much to add very much a building site nice couple of modern Ford cars.

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We moved to Gloucestershire 20 years ago from Birmingham.....we were at the Symphony Hall to see the 'Rat Pack Chrismas Show' recently and found it a nightmare trying to navigate through the road network.....and stressful as you suddenly come up against One-Way roads or No Entry signs....we visit Birmingham at different times throughout the year but each time more changes have been made......such a shame as it doesn't encourage me to use the Theatres and visit the Markets etc., as I once loved doing......having said that the lights which surrounded the Symphony Hall and Broad Street area which lit up the Venue looked spectacular......Birmingham still holds a place in my heart xx
 
Moving a bit further down Hurst Street and look back, we see the Hippodrome and the site of what would become the "Back to backs". Although the street scene at the end of the road remains pretty much the same, the Hippodrome has had a refurbishment and everything else is another world, who would imagine the street corner would become a tourist attraction.

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joeandsheila said:
We moved to Gloucestershire 20 years ago from Birmingham.....we were at the Symphony Hall to see the 'Rat Pack Chrismas Show' recently and found it a nightmare trying to navigate through the road network.....and stressful as you suddenly come up against One-Way roads or No Entry signs....we visit Birmingham at different times throughout the year but each time more changes have been made......such a shame as it doesn't encourage me to use the Theatres and visit the Markets etc., as I once loved doing......having said that the lights which surrounded the Symphony Hall and Broad Street area which lit up the Venue looked spectacular......Birmingham still holds a place in my heart xx
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i agree with you...for the past 10 years i avoid the city centre...total nightmare and not the birmingham i once loved to visit

lyn
 
SteveBhx said:
Next we are on the corner of Inge Street and what remains of The Fox, from many of the previous pictures I have posted we can see this is a typical street corner pub with symmetrical build around that corner , nice tile roof and ornamental copings , small Inge Street sign too - all soon to be gone

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steve the fox has not gone..its still very much up and running..lyn


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Astoness said:
i agree with you...for the past 10 years i avoid the city centre...total nightmare and not the birmingham i once loved to visit

lyn
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Yes A bit over a year ago I was in there and they had a tab book by the bar, presumably for regulars rather than the Hippodrome visitors . They did a very nice breakfast
 
SteveBhx said:
Moving a bit further down Hurst Street and look back, we see the Hippodrome and the site of what would become the "Back to backs". Although the street scene at the end of the road remains pretty much the same, the Hippodrome has had a refurbishment and everything else is another world, who would imagine the street corner would become a tourist attraction.

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Hostaria wine bar was further down i recall a thread on here
used to go to Australian first
 
SteveBhx said:
Apologies, I stood on Google where I thought it was, and it wasn't there, now I realise I was wrong, thanks Astoness
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steve i am still looking for any photos of the old buildings that was opposite the fox back in the early 1980s..basically on the ground where the arcadian is...if it was not for the fox still being there i would not recognise the area

lyn
 
SteveBhx said:
Following on the same roll we now move to Broad Street, I know I have posted an image of this location but more of the Antiques shop, this show both the shop and the church - taken in 1973 and both now long gone. Was anything of the church saved ? it seems from this angle there were plenty of carving and glasswork that would seem a shame to jump consign to a skip.

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Remember it well St Peter's Place walking up there on a Sunday to church at the church of the same name .
 
Tinpot said:
For some reason unknown to me we all went from school to the cinema there in the 60’s to see South Pacific . The cinema was full of school kids.
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The first film I saw there in the very early 60's was Spartacus, then being a mod later on frequented the ballroom on a Tuesday night
 
We now move to Wythall nearest the camera is 5656 (BHA 656C) Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus , New (8/65) to Birmingham & Midland Motor OC Ltd. (Midland “Red”), Birmingham. Withdrawn (9/74). Passed (8/75) to Midland Red (Leamington) Preservation society. Passed (5/78) to Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Trust (BaMMOT), Wythall. (Thanks to MidlandRed.net)

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Next is a Guy Arab IV - 2976 is a typical Birmingham Guy with pre-selective gearbox, and entered service in February 1953 from Acocks Green garage. It moved to Miller Street in October 1967, to Harborne in May 1969, and to Washwood Heath in August 1971. It had been absorbed into the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive in October 1969 and received the new fleetnames but still carried its old colours when retired in January 1972. It was purchased for preservation in June 1972 and sold to the Museum in January 1983.

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SteveBhx said:
I have this as an Outdoor in Sherbourne Road, Highgate 20th September 1961, note the wall advert ( the white is possible reflection off the original photo). Nice leaded windows on the shop front and the children playing in the street. Interesting that the building on the right has its windows bricked up.
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I think that was due to the fact they did not want another resident for the house, due probably to demolition instead of being blocked up for the window tax .
 
SteveBhx said:
We now move to Wythall nearest the camera is 5656 (BHA 656C) Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus , New (8/65) to Birmingham & Midland Motor OC Ltd. (Midland “Red”), Birmingham. Withdrawn (9/74). Passed (8/75) to Midland Red (Leamington) Preservation society. Passed (5/78) to Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Trust (BaMMOT), Wythall. (Thanks to MidlandRed.net)

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steve i am sure the wythall museum photos will interest lloyd...some of those vehicles may still be there

lyn
 
We now move to Roll 23 , if you have seen these before please say, I sometimes have doubts about what I have posted - I may have seen them when I tidies the image up - or I may have posted they - shout up and I will remove the offending items!!
First useable image on this roll is this of the Prince Of Wales pub in Coleshill Street, horse drawn vehicle to the left and the large lamp over the entrance, note also the metal bars across the front of all the windows

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SteveBhx said:
Now if you know central Birmingham and can recall Oozell Street this is the view you would have had before Brindley Place, Sea Life Centre and all the Business quarter was built, and really amazes me as to how the City has changed, there is a canal there somewhere and the Post Office Tower is peeping out behind the Convention Centre.
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Steve as I remember Oozells St if I was looking directly in front of me as this pic would imply . I wouldn't have been able to see the Post Office Tower as it would have been at the extreme left of my screen in other words at right angles to the picture mate
 
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