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    Edmund Street

    That's the left-half of Astoness's picture, Viv. Joined together it reads 'Government Stationery Office' and we are facing down Edmund Street toward Snow Hill. My picture from the invaluable selection of Phyllis Nicklin.
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    1960s & 1970s buildings

    https://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1958/04/11/FS110458001/?s=Birmingham+1950s&st=0&pn=5&sortBy=date Intersting clip here.
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    where is this

    I think I'm getting the hang of this at last. Colmore Street would therefore be away to the left out of view and the Birmingham Hosiery shop would be number ? Its the 'left turn only' sign which is confusing. Its not for road users coming out of a road junction but out of a side exit from Snow Hill?
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    Suffolk Street

    https://www.photobydjnorton.com/TramsCityCentre.html This is the link to the DJNorton site with Suffolk Street being the first item in-around 1950? Looks to me like the Christadelphian Hall on the right there so 121 must be a little nearer?
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    A drive around Birmingham in the 1950s

    Keep on finding them for us please,Ragga! If you look at the New Street scenes its obvious that if you a had a white or light coloured car that was considered very swish. Nowadays the car to be seen in is one that is coloured black!
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Re my posting no. 1020 just now. The American cinema website "Cinerama Topcities"(Cinerama was an American invention) has a feature on the ABC Bristol Road here:- www.cinerama.topcities.com/abcbristolroad.htm An advert from my cinema collection is on there advertising the premiere night of...
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Originally called "The Bristol" when it opened brand-new on 16 May 1937 (1712 seats when originally constructed). Became part of the ABC group in 1944 but not renamed as such until August 1959. Re-designed in September1963 to accommodate big-screen Cinerama. What you have there is a photo of it...
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    Then and now pics of brum

    Trying again
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    Then and now pics of brum

    Lyn, with reference to The Moat photograph after the markets demolition, attached is a scene which may have been recorded only a few days earlier. I've entitled it "BirminghamBurning"...the rubble is all that remains of the Victorian hotel on the corner of Jamaica Row and Edgbaston Street...
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    Bull Ring now Bullring

    Max, your archaeology pictures will be most intersting, to myself anyway. An acquaintance of mine-Pogus Caesar-has forefronted on his design and history website the excavations for the "new" bullring makeover a few years ago. Here's the link:- www.oomgallery.co.uk/gallery.asp?location=42&c=78527
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    See Birmingham by Post Card

    I like the Sherbourne road the most ........ ragga .... And referring to photo number 1 (New Street looking North), here is Austin Reed in its opening year glory. Upstairs too, and everything for the sartorial gentlman........
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    Sutton Coldfield to Stirling Motorail Car Sleeper

    .....and if I'm not "overloading" our journey so to speak, recognition to the Brewin Books stable (1990) is due in this addition to our portfolio. Date not exact, but post-1965 owing to the Morris Oxford(?) numberplate. More London to Scotland examples later.
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    The Station Pub near New Street Station

    Related to post No.4 , Mark Horton has a 1967 vision of the premises named then as The Market Hotel:- www.photobydjnorton.com/GTC/CityCentre.html Its item No.14 on that web-page.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Here's a architectural heritage website photo of the Kardomah restaurant in Central London, picture taken during the war, thereby indicating how long by the 1960's the chain had been going (there was another venue in Central Manchester). The banner from this photo describes the business as 'Tea...
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    Easy Row

    We have our back to the Hall of Memory and looking towards (nowadays) the expressway that leads down what was Suffolk Street to the roundabout where the tall flats (are?where?) and where the Odeon Queensway used to be. The MACE mini-video series has a still photo of the area completely...
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    Phil, I'm a retired HGV Instructor and in Manchester where I previously practiced, kerbs which were almost level with pavements-particularly the narrower ones-safety groups advocated a "structural significance" to minimise the risk of back wheels taking out pedestrians. The slope in the...
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    High Street, Aston

    Or they don't live in Wolverhampton, Dek! Richard Carr.
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    City Centre - Corporation Street

    I had the same discussion with friends who are camera experts on a film enthusiasts site I provide a lot of the poster links for. Its very much the difference between colour and black and white shots (which i always prefer except regarding "colourful" items such as animals in their natural...
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    can you decipher this surname?

    Post #4. 1.Hemsley. 2.Terry (or Berry) 3.Brough? 4.Hemsley (again).
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    Sutton Coldfield to Stirling Motorail Car Sleeper

    Not Sutton Coldfield terminal I don't think Doug, but here's a picture of how it was done generally in the days when one's car got looked after executively with a proper compartment. In later years one's motor simply got tied down to a wagon. Here's the publicity that went with attracting...
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