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    Passages, Alleyways Gulletts and Snickets of Old Brum

    Yes, I have looked at that engraving often and wondered if it was in fact meant to be Peck Lane. I suspect that we will never know but intreagueingly it could be similar to what the hill down to the Rea might have been and is the building on the left King Edwards. Not likely and the river or...
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    New Street Station From 1854 - 1966

    We went fishing to Tamworth a couple of times. It would be an early morning train caught at Saltley Stn. Two or three old coaches with no inter compartment connection and pulled by a Duck six I think...well a six anyway just three connected wheels on each side and no bogies.
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    Holborn Hill

    If you Google Earth Holborn Hill and go to the bottom by the canal lock...you will see a scrap metal company 'Warhurst Metals'. This must be the company that belonged to Roy Warhurst, Birmingham City FCs fine left half of the 50s and captain for a while. I understand from here that he died some...
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    Handsworth Technical School

    We went to the repertory theatre a couple of times.
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    Bull Ring until 1920s

    The previous photo shows a state of decrepitude of the buildings even then. I suppose they were a hundred years old likely still even we would remember a similar state up to the 1960s in some areas. One wonders what the infrastructure would have been like when new. Good new addition.
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    Bull Ring until 1920s

    There's another cart behind Rosie. I thought the same as you for a while.
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    Handsworth Technical School

    I had thought that we were the first third year and we finished in 55. Anyway you must have been just ahead. The closest to my class so far and in the B stream also. Welcome to the forum.
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    City Centre Photographs

    Yes, Dennis those are the pictures of the fence that I was thinking of. Same style fence as the one at Church St. but this one at the corner of Margaret St. and Edmund. To the left of those photos across the street would have been the back of the Art Gallery.
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    The painting on post #111 is the oposite side of the street from the Theatre Royal...if it was there at the time. If you look at the Lines painting you can see the gates from the other side and there is an even better earlier sketch of the gates viewed by two men on one of the roofs in the...
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    City Centre Photographs

    Yeah, corner of Edmond St. and Church St. Possibly around 1890 ish. I recognise the fence which has been on other photo's and indeed this corner is represented here in several pictures from different angles. I wonder if there had been buildings in the empty spaces that had been demolished; in...
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    Shoe Repair

    We had a 'last' if that is what they were called. I think we used to call it a 'shoe tree' not sure though. I seem to think it was a pyramid type object with a sole or heel at each point, of different shoe size. Heavy and made of cast iron. No carving of leather was done but lead 'Segs' of...
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    Handsworth Technical School

    Yeah, I made most of those but sadly have none now. That looks like a nice height gauge with cast iron base, where one learned the meaning of 'pale yellow' when tempering the scriber. Mine was a good one too and I was very proud of it, people thought it was store bought...the anvil of...
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    City Centre Photographs

    It seems such a small point but the left wing of the New Royal has been a quandry. From Cuppas post #1183 it was Portugal House set back and from the writing we read that 'pains were taken' to hide the humble abodes that were in between the theatre and house when it was extended with the right...
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    City Centre Photographs

    On both the 1774 and 1800 Theatre Royal pictures you can see to the right and set back...the New Royal Hotel. There are pictures of this hotel showing extended wings on the front, up to the New Street curb and a long portico in between. I can't see how the left wing could have ever been...
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    Winter Walk

    Gosh! Eric, I did not consider that you were 82; you don't write that old. Anyway I am in agreement about another dog and the consideration to longevity. When Rupi is no more I don't think we will be getting another dog for the same reason. He's 10 years old now and Jasper the cat goaded him...
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    Winter Walk

    That area was my evening ride after supper on my pushbike so I know it well. Fairly well anyway; it being darkish by the time I got to Coleshill from Saltley and had to put my lamps on. A nice ride down the hill and along to Dukes bridge and after that a left and through Over Whitacre. Bit of an...
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    City Centre Photographs

    There's a hotel in the background.
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    Temples of Relief

    Why is there a requirement to do something with them. Why not upgrade them and use for the same thing. Is the need for a pee no longer a neccessity. In other cities around the world these features are noticeable by their absence.
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    Icknield Street

    How do you recondition a 'back to back' and preserve. They were always in a state of dissrepair as I recall and the maintenance was largely neglected by land lords. Even the construction when new was known as 'jerry built' with facilities akin to those of backward countries. Hardly the abodes...
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    City Centre Photographs

    The Balaclava. I remember them in the winter. We used to wear them. Hav'nt thought of these in many years.
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