Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
#4 JOJ 510, Could be outside of a depot, but which?
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Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
#5 HOV 739.
Is it Yardley Wood?
Lloyd
master brummie
Quinton. Many of the 25xx (JOJ5xx) Guy buses were based there.
pjmburns
master brummie
I wondered that but then a lot of tge garages look alike.
Mark Tooze
master brummie
Is this the Finchley Rd Kingstanding terminus?
You could be right. That’s style of social housing was common in Kingstanding, so it could be the junction of Finchley Road and Hornsey Road.
Same style as these houses on Kingstanding Road (near Cranborne Road), but not sure if this is the position of the photo. (To be able to say this was the position, the dual carriageway would have to have been different when the photo was taken.)
Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
I Think you are correct. This is the Finchley Road/Hornsley Rd Junction. On the original neg, the road sign is definitely LEY Rd.
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Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
NOB 332M, Any takers where this is?
Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
HOV 694 Where?
Skiprat1965
proper brummie kid
Steelhouse Laneish? HOV 713.
Lloyd
master brummie
Route 64 now runs from Nechells to Peddimore and Minworth. The route passes through Erdington, The Fort, and Castle Vale.
Maybe Erdington
I think this is the Yenton. There was a bank on the corner of Sutton Road and Broardfield Road, now a pub called the Verdo Lounge
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Post #2352 (HOV 694) - is it the Bull Ring - travelling away from High Street towards Digbeth ?
Post #2353 (HOV 713) - just passing the Wesleyan & General (the building with the clock) on Colmore Circus
Post #2353 (HOV 713) - just passing the Wesleyan & General (the building with the clock) on Colmore Circus
devonjim
master brummie
And then came the Black-out for WW2
Lloyd
master brummie
That IS the blackout lighting. Note in the lower picture of the earlier design some of the shields pointed towards the aisle, where the conductor could see his ticket machine. I don't think the newer style was taken up to any large degree.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
BIRMINGHAM COACH CRASH: 14 HURT.
The driver and 13 young women, including two sisters, whom he was driving from the Black Country to work in Birmingham, were injured when their coach collided with a milk van in Hagley-road, Birmingham, to-day.
(Evening Despatch, August 1940
The driver and 13 young women, including two sisters, whom he was driving from the Black Country to work in Birmingham, were injured when their coach collided with a milk van in Hagley-road, Birmingham, to-day.
(Evening Despatch, August 1940
Lloyd
master brummie
I grew up very close to this spot. It is the triangle of Hagley Rd, Sandon Rd and Meadow Rd where the ornamental fountain used to stand (which was taken down for scrap in WW1), The railings behind the coach were tasken for the WW2 war effort a little later on.
Here's a picture from the Birmingham Gazette article reporting the same incident. Note those involed are named with home addresses - such
would not happen today!
paul stacey
master brummie
Does any on on this thread, remember the very bad Birmingham fogs of the 50's, when the conductor would have to walk in front of the bus ,with a great flaming torch, held aloft, and we would progress at walking pace for some miles!!
This is mentioned in post 2341 on https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/they-were-caught-in-our-old-street-pics.41947/page-79
Richard Dye
master brummie
Those smogs we very very bad! During the day they were bad enough but at night really they were so bad, causing the lights on your bike or car to reflect back.
DavidGrain
master brummie
Queens Hospital was the old Accident Hospital on Bath Row. That name was over the door but I think it was partly obscured and no longer used.
paul stacey
master brummie
I remember one particular night when about 10 years old 1957ish, coming back from Harborne, to Weoley Castle, we had such bad fog. From the bottom of War Lane, to the Stonehouse Pub, the conductor walked took hours, we all had to get out and walk from there pitch black with fog, happy days !!
Waiting for a no 90 in the fog you could hear it but no sight of it till you spot its single fog light
how did we manage ?