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ATV Studios Broad Street Suffolk Street Queensway

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A link to the thread about ATV Studios at Aston Cross is here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/a-t-v-at-aston-cross.2545/


Hi, I was walking through Birmingham yesterday and I walked down Bridge Street just off Broad Street towards a canal bridge. And on the left hand side of the road opposite the Premier Inn, there's a huge building which looks to be abandoned and not used in a very long time. At the top of the building on the one side, it says in a red sign "Accident & Emergency" I've looked about on the internet and I can't find nothing of it.
I'm curious to know if it was a hospital or not, and if so I'd like to know a bit of history about it.
Would be great if someone could reply please, thanks!
 
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Hello Vicky welcome to the forum i think i know the building you are on about i think that it is the abandoned "Holiday St" car park this was closed down after a car park of the same construction collapsed in Wolverhampton it was erected in the 60s the red sign i should think is directing you towards the old Accident Hospital in Bath Row not that far away. Dek
 
Hi Vicky,

Are these the buildings that you mention. If so I think they are what remain of the old municipal car park and the ATV television Studios.

Phil

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The old Central TV studios- now closed down. The BBC Survivors programme was filmed there last year I believe and this was what they used for the hospital scenes. The A&E sign remains in place!
 
Thanks for the info! I have puzzled for a while why there was an A&E sign there - it does look like a hospital entrance.

Phil
 
The building will have been the former ATV studios, the sign was to do with a program that was filmed there the former studios are now earmarked for demolition




dek carr said:
Hello Vicky welcome to the forum i think i know the building you are on about i think that it is the abandoned "Holiday St" car park this was closed down after a car park of the same construction collapsed in Wolverhampton it was erected in the 60s the red sign i should think is directing you towards the old Accident Hospital in Bath Row not that far away. Dek
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Before the studios closed Roy Smith was the ATV transport manager. He transferred to Thames Television. If anyone knows his whereabouts that would be much appreciated. He also had a pilots licence and flew with Birmingham Aviation at Elmdon .
 
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Before the studios closed Roy Smith was the ATV transport manager. He transferred to Thames Television. If anyone knows his whereabouts that would be much appreciated. He also had a pilots licence and flew with Birmingham Aviation at Elmdon .
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Was fortunate enough to have a guided store around the ATV studios one Saturday morning.

The sets were not at all what you would expect, but it was very interesting just the same...
 
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