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Back to Roll 51, firstly corner of Lee Bank and Elvetham Street apparently some of the last buildings to be demolished in the area in the 1970's, taken in November 1966. selection of three storey buildings, I like how the pavement is raised up above the road with its rails to stop the unwary

One of the issues with going through the rolls of film consecutively is there may be a better version of a photo later on - this has proved the case with the images posted from Roll 48 as Lyn pointed out. I have just moved to Roll 51 and come across better versions of these images which I will...

Final picture on this roll and one that shows the affect of the Middle ring road - it was taken looking down Pitsford Street , at the bottom of the slope is a two lane road with the Goods building on the other side, this has now all been replaced with four lanes of traffic and a central...

Turning 180 degrees we see the Birmingham Mint on Icknield Street, seems to be taken from a very muddy central reservation just after the middle ring road was finished - this side was the original road and another set of lanes built the other side of the reservation

This fine image is of the Great Western Goods Office in Pitsford Street, as can be seen the end wall is been reduced and I am afraid it disappeared altogether. The rail bridge to the right was also replaced with a wider modern structure to allow the four lanes of traffic. What a shame - it...

Thanks Lyn, always happy to be told of alternate images ( i was going to say "told my pictures were rubbish ) :laughing:

With a jump of 30 years we are now in 1991, and a view down Long Acre - it seems most of these picture from the 1990's were taken on a Sunday hence the lack of traffic. We have the Swan and Mitre off in the distance , railway terrace is the road to the right and not surprisingly the bridge...

With a better image - although also available in the Great Hampton Row thread, we can now see that Woods and Potter are the newsagents , all the sweet jars in the window next door and the shop owner looking out - are they checking on us or the child? These are numbers 77 - 78 . Both of these...

Continuing on Roll 48 we have what is described as old shops and houses Great Hampton Row and St Georges Place Hockley. Now we have a better image there is so much more to see, firstly the Gold Flake painted sign, then the projecting sign next door. Note also the goods on the pavement as well as...

Moving forward in time we have H. Knight pork butcher Ham and Bacon curer and Lard refiner - you don't see that these days. This is looking up Great Hampton Row from Tower Street taken in August 1961 with a selection of two and three storey buildings a lot have large entrance gates so I assume...

Continuing the time travel we are now back in October 1949, George Fisher Hairdresser, who is on the corner of Great Hampton Row and New John Street West, note the Permanant Waving and specialist in Manicure and Chiropody - for Ladies and Gents of course. Note the two children standing outside...

We now jump back to June 1959, and Steelhouse Lane - I have posted a similar image from this location but not the same I don't think - someone will tell me. On the left hand corner we have Harrisons Opticians, with a massive sign in the middle of the building, and above that seems to be a...

We now jump forward 40 years to the Wesleyan and General Building on Colmore Circus taken in December 1974. Long gone and replace with a much larger building, apologies for the quality - seemed to be a lot sharper when I looked at it - few things to comment on notice the car park in front of the...

Next up we have High Street Digbeth taken in 1930's, love chaos of Trams, trolley busses and other vehicles and if you look carefully you can see a cyclist crossing them all !!. I have noticed that the building on the left has " SPQR" on the front - only recently having watch a Henry Coles...

Well that took a while but I have now finished some more rolls, actually it didn't take long but you know how it is when you put something down and don't pick it straight back up - suddenly 3 months have gone by. To start we have the second half of roll 48 , not sure of the source of this image...

Roll 48 is the last of the current " processed images" I will have to go and crop and tidy a few more rolls but may process then post so there is not such a long wait - but don't worry we are not running out at a rough count there are another 70 rolls to process!! ( but expect a lot of...

so back onto the Lichfield Road and the last on the roll, plenty of work going on, on both sides of the road, allowing for the road widening. If you remember the start of the roll we had picture of The Vine - we can just see it off in the distance - and between us is now a roundabout!! Lot...

Next we move to Portland Street turned around and looking down the road to the Manor Tavern, and here we have sense of normality and a view that you would recognise today. As with many of the more modern images - taken on a Sunday I believe judging by the lack of traffic. nothing more to add -...

Next we cross the road to Upper Portland Street, again there are many differences while the area on the left is a showroom the right of the road is now industrial units and the trees in the distance have all grown up

The next few images are the redevelopment of the Lichfield Road in 1991, first thing is this is a single carriageway, to fix the location - the road sign says Portland Street, but the road we are standing on no longer exists. nothing more to add, note the emptiness on the other side of the road