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Assay Office Move

I think the location is a bit further up Lyn? The shops were on the corner of Warstone Lane and Icknield Street weren't they? Pope Street/Icknield Street's more where Bulpitts was methinks.
Don't quote me though - my sense of direction's nearly as good as yours lol !!
Still a good location though.
 
Good place to move it to, in the heart of the Jewellry Quarter, but I hope they manageto preserve the current building too!
Sue
 
hi ya charlie here are the old shops or should i say were..all gone now with the old bulpitts building on pope st...i guess it all depends on how big the new assay office will be as to whether it actually takes up any of the old shops ground

i agree sue...good location..

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well lyn ;
it sounds good to me ;whether its the top or the bottom end to be quite honest
surely it as to be a new built building did they knock down completely the old office block of the mint or did they save the frontage of the mint
which surely was a misake in the first place to destroy the mint it would be great if they used the orinional frontage of the build
i cannot seeing be the pope street surely not ;
it would surely be the old toilet block because its not big enough its better to be the old stoddards premised rather than bulpitts
which we know was a vased building ;our birmingham history of the asay office as got hundred years of history
may be next to the cemetry ; or could it be the old birmingham stopper company facing the cem ;
in my opiniun ; i think its the wrong place for our heritage to move to ickneild street whom is to blamefor this idea ; three guesses
happy new year every body astonian;;
 
morning alan...the new assay office is to be built on the corner of icknield st and pope street..if you look at the pic i posted of the now demolished old shops you can see the old bulpitts building on the corner of pope st and that will remain..the new assay office will be built on the opposite corner...happy new year to you too alan..

lyn
 
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hi lyn ;
just been looking at te report and if my memory serves me correctly pope street was the one facing the old gate pub ;
across from pope street well as a old local and growing up there in king edwards rd i know the area very well indeed ;
where those particular shops was and on the cornerof pope street there used tobe liottle shops as we all knew and a guy whom eventual set a car bussines for afew years and the council termidated his lease and that land stood empty for about twenty years or more and moved down to birchfield rd ; my brother pete used to work for him
never or less getting back on track that part of ickneild street as never been know as the jewerly quarter for locals at the time it was warstone lane
upwards to the clock and left and right hand and beyond was always known as the jewerly quarter
ickneild street as always been known as lady wood so how on earth do they now cal it the jewerly quarter my family ancesters had shops within the quartes
before the years perhaps they are planning to extend what we know as the jewerly quarter down on to ickneild street
surely they knew years in advance they was moving the mint ; so why move now the assay office to pope stret ;
plus if i am correct would you want a car park facing your house as these residents are livin in the ones they built on icknelld st
facing the pope street so if they are going to extent and make more industreal units on the area
may bethey will in afew years down the line they will demo those little house that people have been moved into by he council will have to move out again
i lived on coventry rd years ago when they demodrootes and built asda ; so i know what i am on about
on the subject of a car park opersite your house for noise and mess ;so i can understand the argument on that score ;
and what about the assay office i can only presume the council have already got some think planned for there selves on that
just like baskerville house ; pope stret as always been industreal for factorys and the whole of bulpitts waggonslining up pope street all day and at week ends
but there was shops on ickneild street and some occuppyers but they never complained ; but i think these little house
facing pope stret are elderly little house and elderly people live in there and they probably came from the other side of brum ;
and to be quite honest its not a desirable are once up to spring hill and behond ; best wshes astonian;;
 
Lyn, the picture of the shops says a lot doesn't it, with the area becoming so derelict, it makes you think how did it lose its bustle and trade, quite sad really!
Sue
 
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Lyn, the picture of the shops says a lot doesn't it, with the area becoming so derelict, it makes you think how did it lose its bustle and trade, quite sad really!
Sue
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hi sue..the answer to that one is easy..icknield st was chocka from one end to the other with shops and pubs..that is until the ball and chain gang got started on it...i well remember as a child walking with our mom to go shopping down there and then turn the corner at the library onto the spring hill shops..its a shadow of its former self now as many of our members can testify better than i can...

lyn
 
HI CHARLIE ;
Happy new year to you my mate i have to laugh and smile to certain comments about this assay offices
and it makes me cry ; at the same time when you said a beatiful tescos i passed there afew weeks ago and i went all up the spring hil and dudley rd to winson green and when i got to the green prison ; i stopped ;and said i aint gonnnna go any further
i would not go down lodge rd nor handsworth new rd ; to wards handsworth where i knew so well as i delivered all around that are for midland counties dairies
but getting back on track ; looking at the area now ;and the area i was brought up in spring hill and and ickneild street monument rd and going to ickneild street school ; i could name all those shops in the wholle area and yes it was choka block ; and i am a kid of the old block whom grew up in that envoironment
worked and played walked and talked and drank in every pub around from aston hocley ladywood and up through the smethick high street through to the red cow unless you was brought up in that area you would not see the state differenece how ghostly these guys have done to the area
and left it for donkeys years abarron land ; its a disgrace ; what on earth are they thinking of sticking an assay office in a run down
and a poor population of our society in a placelike there in the pope street which as been like that since twenty years
but reading between the lines i surpose they are going to and may be planned a bye pass through the area from the quinton bye pas and m5 motoway
to come across the hagley rd and monument rd through to the hockley and jewrly quarter and extent the jewerly quarte down to icknel street
after all they have set up cameras and on the exit from the m5 exit to quinton there is going to be a poll tax charge to come of there and into brum
and may be they may or not may be build the extending bye pass to come down ; we will hav to wait and see ;in the futere it could be nither ten years wait for these guys ; in my eyes there was no need to destroye a busy thriving communitity when they did and left it ;
if you knew old ladywood streets like i do such as up the monument rd just passed spring hill the king edwards rd is a disgrace what they done there
and the st marks comutity ; st marks st ; if you have lived there in any of they streets you would say excatly the same feeling i have about it ;
its a complete mess ;it more of a american bronks ;and if you know the are and think of the bronks you would know what i mean ;
it will be more robbed than ever in its life time ;beleive me ;they should have left ickneild street alone but i surpose they want to be reconised in later life ;
for being responible for dezigning ; best wishes astonian;
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Maybe moving the Assay Office there means the area will be regenerated, Astonian. The Jewellery Quarter and its fringes are prime sites now - my parents/grandparents (from Pope Street, Camden Drive and Icknield Street) would be amazed!
 
Charlie said:
Maybe moving the Assay Office there means the area will be regenerated, Astonian. The Jewellery Quarter and its fringes are prime sites now - my parents/grandparents (from Pope Street, Camden Drive and Icknield Street) would be amazed!
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i agree with you charlie it can only be good for the area....:encouragement:

lyn
 
charlie ;
do you recall the family from the second hand shops on icknelid street your relie was probaly close to the alibones houses
on george street west camden drive they was nice houses as i recall they was a block of white painted houses
well regarding the regeneation programe they are long over due
ickneild and that are and in particular pope street corner was reposess way back thirty or forty years ago and stood empty
as you know but pope street and those little house went back in the sixties and the car bussinees wenr before them the beginning of he sixties the guy whom own that bussiness on the corner was thrown out the then back in the sixties and they stood empty for all that lenght of time which is now fifty years old
why kick him out then if only they are making a move now ; to regenerate ; those little houses facing pope street will have to go ;
they look lost standing there ;on there own ; ah well money well wasted ; best wishes astonian;;
 
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