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Another Birmingham Building is Demolished

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horsencart

master brummie
I have been photographing the Demolition of another Brum Building it was at 126 Suffolk St and was Stanford and Mann Printing Works ( early 1940 s) it is the sort of building that you may have passed in the car many times?, it was not a tall building, or could it be described as Pretty?, at the time of typing this it is a pile of bricks and steel, I have been photographing its demise more or less from the start I am soon to start editing the photos, the building that is to replaced it is to be an Hotel, in the shape of a Right Angle,

What is of interest to me is that Gough St was where there may have been an entrance to the Printing works, this means that the print work may have been on Two levels Gough St is rather steep,
 
I'd be interested to see a photo, I did some training in Severn House in Severn Street nearby, years ago, but I just can't picture that block of buildings
 
look forward to the photos horsencart...i will also move this thread to the buildings past and present section of the forum

lyn
 
such a shame but to be expected these days..once again the building does not look as though its falling down to me

lyn
 
I was just looking at the photos of the retaining wall to the former Printing Work, sadly the wall and the works have now both gone , what was brought to my attention was how tall the wall was (if walls could talk) it was about 50? foot tall, the plan/hope/wish, is to get more photos of the demolition, and then add them to Flicker, so far there are about sixty photos taken over a two month period,
 
From what I can tell the building was in good nick, having said that I suspect that it had been empty for many years? that plus the fact that someone wishes to build an Hotel on the site,

Astoness said:
such a shame but to be expected these days..once again the building does not look as though its falling down to me

lyn
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horsencart said:
From what I can tell the building was in good nick, having said that I suspect that it had been empty for many years? that plus the fact that someone wishes to build an Hotel on the site,
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And of course many older buildings like this are full of asbestos so could not be used "as is".

Also they are not easy to update for modern wiring, heating, health and safety and so on.

Birmingham was full of many of these type of small factories which are just not needed any more, particularly where that one is sited.

Far better to put a modern multi storey building in its place and build a hotel to bring money in to the city from visitors, rather than it just sitting there empty.

I walk round a lot of inner city Birmingham taking photographs and there are loads of these small factories dotted all over the city (Digbeth, JQ etc) that are just not suitable for modern use.

That is not to say they should all be knocked down, I am all in favor of saving ones that can easily be converted (as they are doing in say the JQ), but this building seem to have little historical merit and it seems nobody wants to use it as it has been empty for many years.

Let the city earn money from the site !
 
If you create an album, you can order the photos by date, and post the link to the album here instead! Do that in the Organiser.
 
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