Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
I am at the wrong building! It would be on Broad Street as the Brasshouse Pub?
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Brasshouse Broad Street
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I am at the wrong building! It would be on Broad Street as the Brasshouse Pub?
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
And the School (boys, girls and infants) alongside an engine works and in front of an ironworks in Oozells Street!
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
From Wikipedia....
Oozells Street Board School was a Victorian board school in Oozells Street, off Broad Street in Birmingham, England.
Designed in 1877 by local architects Martin & Chamberlain, responsible for over forty of the Birmingham board schools, it opened on 28 January 1878 to serve 807 primary children.[1]
In 1976 the tower was demolished on safety grounds.[1] It was rebuilt around 1997 with a steel girder frame. Redevelopment was by Carillion[2] at a cost of £4,700,000.[3]
The building became a college and then a furniture store for Birmingham City Councilbefore being condemned for demolition.[1] It had a last-minute reprieve as the contract for demolition was being agreed and reopened in 1998 as the Ikon Gallery.[1]
Since 1993 it has become surrounded by the new buildings of Brindleyplace which replaced an earlier industrial area of factories and workshops.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Nice to see this thread started Viv. My Gt Gt Grandfather Woolley worked on the canals and lived in Brasshouse Passage. I think the houses may have gone by the time of Pedrocut's map in 1890 although there still seem to be a few in the courtyards.
pjmburns
master brummie
Re: Turkish Baths - not a photo but........ https://www.victorianturkishbath.org/3TOPICS/AtoZArts/Performance/pix/CB_Birmingham_w.htm
There was also a BHF thread about Brasshouse Passage, so I have merged that thread with this one. Members might now find the earlier transferred posts (#1 - #26) on this thread of interest. Viv.
ellbrown
ell brown on Flickr
One of my earliest photos of The Brasshouse from April 2009. Canal view, just before the Broad Street Tunnel.
New view from the Brindleyplace path side as you exit from Broad Street. Not really taken this view from this path before, but walked past it loads of times over the years!
New view from the Brindleyplace path side as you exit from Broad Street. Not really taken this view from this path before, but walked past it loads of times over the years!
Dave Ackrill
proper brummie kid
Just to add to the history a bit. In 1982 I took the Radio Amateurs Exam in a classroom in a building on Brasshouse Passage. Back in those days it was a two part exam, Theory and Regulations and you needed a pass in both to be able to apply for a transmitting licence. The exam was, I think, only held once a year, in December.
Then it was a multiple choice exam and the 'old timers' hated this as they sat a written exam and looked down their noses at those of us that had what they thought was an easier way to get a licence.
All those buildings have gone now, of course, it became part of the redevelopment of that area called Brindleyplace.
Then it was a multiple choice exam and the 'old timers' hated this as they sat a written exam and looked down their noses at those of us that had what they thought was an easier way to get a licence.
All those buildings have gone now, of course, it became part of the redevelopment of that area called Brindleyplace.
Hi Dave,
Coincidentally I also took the RAE in 1982 at Walsall, but previously in the 1970s I was learning
Morse at the Brasshouse Centre with Gerry Farrance G3KPT (now SK). It all seems a lifetime ago now!
Kind regards
Dave
Dave Ackrill
proper brummie kid
After getting my 'Class B' callsign (G6VMQ) I started doing Morse lessons at evening classes in Northfield that were run by another Amateur called Brett, and I can't remember his callsign, but it would have been a G4. It will bug me until I remember...
I failed the Morse test, twice, traveling to Western Super-mare both times, but passed at the Elveston Castle Rally and then waited for the callsign G0DJA.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
hi Dave have you had a look on QRZ for him? i did my RAE test in kitts green.
hi Dave have you had a look on QRZ for him? i did my RAE test in kitts green.
Hi Pete,
I thought that too, but if it was his first name, there weren't any in Brum that I could find,
but there was one possibility if it was his surname. Of course, he may now be miles away.
Kind regards
MX es HNY
Dave G0ELJ
Kevinharris
Brummie babby
I have come in a bit late on this topic/thread. But I actually attended Matthew Boulton College annex situated in a dingy and very badly lit Brasshouse Passage from September 1967 till June 1969 on a day release and evening basis. I gained an ONC in Business Studies. Furthermore the following academic year attended an evening course based in what is now the Ikon Gallery for my Accountancy examinations. This was also part of the Matthew Boulton annexation the time. My how that area has changed!!!
I worked at the Industrial Research Laboratories (IRL) in Brasshouse Passage in 1969-70 under Dr Roger Goodacre, Doug Wood and Martin Sansome. Although a prolific photographer now, sadly I do not have any photos from that time. There were several sections to the building focussed on work for the Public Works Department, but we also took in contracted commissions to raise revenues and provide a public testing service. It was hugely interesting work, a great learning curve and stimulated my interest and career involving laboratory and materials testing.
There were site investigations and soils testing at Castle Vale, Chelmsley Wood, Queensway, Inner Ring Road etc, testing the power station PFA 2-6m thick going into the Elmdon runway extensions, full scale (250 tonnes) load tests on many bridges, (I was usually underneath them measuring the sometimes significant deck deflections!), crushing concrete cubes from thousands of construction sites across Brum filling the spaces created by Sir Herbert Manzoni's (City Engineer) obsession with slum clearance 'outdated' Victorian buildings and modern development.
Activities involved the testing of road, drainage and all kinds of construction materials, water and soil quality analysis, concrete from what was the first large (2240m3) continuous foundation pour at the ATV centre opposite, to checking knot strengths and diameters of monofilament fishing line!
There were three stories to the building, which housed many facilities including a full size snooker table inside the main entrance on the left, of which we made a lot of use.
In the yard at the back were several single story workshop units associated with the old gasworks, as the IRL was formerly a Gas Research Laboratory taken over by BCC.
I think it was demolished around 1974 following yet another local government reorganisation when the facilities were transferred somewhere near the central fire station.
None of the photos I have found so far are from the North side of the bridge to Gas Street Basin which would show a canal side view of the building.
Two images from the ground floor hall of the IRL c1969
There were site investigations and soils testing at Castle Vale, Chelmsley Wood, Queensway, Inner Ring Road etc, testing the power station PFA 2-6m thick going into the Elmdon runway extensions, full scale (250 tonnes) load tests on many bridges, (I was usually underneath them measuring the sometimes significant deck deflections!), crushing concrete cubes from thousands of construction sites across Brum filling the spaces created by Sir Herbert Manzoni's (City Engineer) obsession with slum clearance 'outdated' Victorian buildings and modern development.
Activities involved the testing of road, drainage and all kinds of construction materials, water and soil quality analysis, concrete from what was the first large (2240m3) continuous foundation pour at the ATV centre opposite, to checking knot strengths and diameters of monofilament fishing line!
There were three stories to the building, which housed many facilities including a full size snooker table inside the main entrance on the left, of which we made a lot of use.
In the yard at the back were several single story workshop units associated with the old gasworks, as the IRL was formerly a Gas Research Laboratory taken over by BCC.
I think it was demolished around 1974 following yet another local government reorganisation when the facilities were transferred somewhere near the central fire station.
None of the photos I have found so far are from the North side of the bridge to Gas Street Basin which would show a canal side view of the building.
Two images from the ground floor hall of the IRL c1969
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Ladywood 2
master brummie
Just a couple of hundred yard down the road towards the Crown Hotel/Pub is St.Peter and St. Martins Place.
Odd having two saints in close proximity, But the church was called St.Peters.