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Moving to the front of the Town Hall and this another of the then and now type pictures, the Town Hall looking rather grimy , with two lanes of traffic outside - pedestrian crossings everywhere - car was king back then , and a sixties office building background - compare that to today with...

Next we have the Chamberlain memorial built to commemorate the great man. One of the advantages of all the changes at this end of town is the refurbishment of this memorial and the other ones around it. There are a few more high rise buildings in the background and you cannot say that the new...

Having walked underneath the Library we come to this view - if we do not turn around then nothing has changed much although a lot cleaner these days, this is Chamberlain Square to the rear of the Town Hall and the fountain, much loved for the ability to fill it with foam by students. We can just...

One for Donbogen, a close up of the Shakespeare, large arched windows on the ground floor, turret like windows on the corner and two floors above, row of shops down to the left and parking meters - what happened to them?. I remember there was a room in the basement of Baskerville house where the...

Still on Roll 13, this is very much of its time and place - this is the view of the Copthorne Hotel from the Library or the hole then was underneath the library before the filled it in, and on the right is part of the Grapevine, a lunchtime watering hole before that end of town went...

Next view, and completing the circle this is the view towards Broad Street, taken before the regeneration took place and all the buildings were refurbished. In this picture, windows are broken tiles are missing and a small step away from losing these buildings. The current view has so much...

back again and still in Gas Street, continuing with the 360 degree view and this time we are looking towards the James Brindley pub, spent many a lunchtime there - plenty of canal boats and the back of the ATV/ Central TV studios. , on the left we have the start / finish of the Hyatt Hotel.

Love the lorry and the sign to Aston Hall car Park - gives it a bit of context - thankyou

An atmospheric picture which adds to the location, carrying on with our view around Gas Street Basin again taken from the bridge moving to the left and we have a selection of canalside properties, again taken in 1990, these have now become canalside restuarnts, but the building maintain the...

moving now to the canal side of Gas Street and a view taken from the old footbridge over the canal. We are looking into what is now the Canalside Bar, showing what this area had become - run down and neglected although still having its original features. Today it is part of the thriving canal...

This next picture I believe is now the Tap and Spile Gas Street, do you agree?. If you go onto Streetview find the Tap and Spile the door has a 10 on it and to the right is the distinctive opening with the round screen. Rather a difference from when this picture was taken, although judging by...

Thanks Vivienne14 - so I had a look and found the following - rather surprising they went to the trouble and don't bother having a look for the planning documents there is nothing on-line, may save someone time. 1996/04146/PA application_type_code FUL TYPE Full Planning Received...

This next image is included more for interest as it is rather washed out - my description says it is the former caretakers house in the grounds of Oozells Street School somewhat overgown missing tiles and windows and which didn't last much longer as far as I can see.

We have now crossed over Broad Street and come to the sorry sight of Oozells Street School, the picture was taken 2nd February 1990, there are lots of boarded up windows broken windows and missing brickwork , it is amazing to see the transformation to what is there today. One question the Ikon...

We now move onto Roll 13 first 6 photos are general shots of Sutton Park , first main shot is described as a new hotel due to open in 1990, As we all know this is the Hyatt Hotel , without the branding and with the work lift and scaffolding around the top part that juts out. Hard to imagine the...

Roll 12 + another poor roll only this picturea lthough is very interesting HMS Aston Villa was an anti submarine trawler in The Royal Navy so strictly HMT Aston Villa , it had a very short naval career - taken from https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/6304.html History Completed on 4...

Finally on this Roll ( said there was a lot of rubbish!) this is The Speedwell, on Stockfield Road - taken in December 1989, another large scale M&B pub which seems to be boarded up on the ground floor although the first floor windows seem to be intact at that time. Has all the various pub...

First off Roll 12 , this is Kings Hall Market, and thats all I have sp I did a quick search of the pages on this forum and came up with the following - "it was on Corporation St. opposite to The Old Square. Knocked down to build Inner Ring Rd."...

Okay so we now move onto Roll 12, which I think we will only get a couple of images out of, there are a lot of poor pictures of postcards and I am sure you have seen these postcards before. It gives an idea of the variety and quality of the images we have .

and finally on this roll something a bit different described as an old air raid shelter in Long Acre off Austin Street. A rather substantial structure at the rear of Bristol Street Motors, again this was taken in 1989 so over 40 years old