birmingham 1969-73

[Limes]

St George's in the fields by Thomas Rickman (whose tomb in the old church yard is the last thing left standing)
picture dump

 

[Richard Dye]

Same area as my first pictures above, but taken aerially in 1945, prior to the slum clearances of Lennox street and Wheeler street etc

When wa# Wheeler St cleared?


Thank you!

 

[Limes]

When wa# Wheeler St cleared?


Thank you!

Slightly before my time, but I do believe it was 1968-1969

This is Lennox Street in 1968 and it still extends all the way up to New John Street.

 

[Astoness]

Slightly before my time, but I do believe it was 1968-1969

This is Lennox Street in 1968 and it still extends all the way up to New John Street.

thanks limes but i posted this photo and the ones on post 361 some years ago under the appropriate thread titles

lyn

 

[Richard Dye]

Slightly before my time, but I do believe it was 1968-1969

This is Lennox Street in 1968 and it still extends all the way up to New John Street.

Thanks…. I left at the end of 19(2 and Wheeler Street was alive and well.

 

[Mark Tooze]

Clearing out my late father's old drives, saw these that I'd never seen before.
The slums of Newtown being cleared out and the area redeveloped, photo of Geach tower B19 being built and then a photo from the tower, looking north toward Lozells and Aston.

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The colour photo is amazing as it shows clearance of Wheeler St, Guildford St - in fact most of Newtown. Few odd buildings still standing - first few new buildings going up - looks like a bomb has dropped - just as I remember it from when we moved out of Guildford St in the late 1960s. Thank you for posting this one!!! Please post any more if you have them!!!

 

[Alf Rogers]

According to UK Housing Wki website, Geach tower was built in 1965 (it doesn't say whether construction started in '65, or was completed by that date). The photo of Wheeler Street, taken from Geech Tower, has also been difficult to pin down when it was taken! I think that is Hodgins Tower on the right side, under construction?
If I'm right, then Hodgkins tower was completed, according to the same website, in 1971; which would date the photo to 1970.
Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Phew! I need a cuppa now!
All the best! Alf.

 

[Alf Rogers]

This is my 100th post! Do I get a Crackerjack pencil & pen?!!

 

[Donbogen]

Sadly a kid i used to knock about with fell down a unfinished lift shaft in one of those towers l was raiding biscuits from workers huts at the time