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Bridge Street/holliday Street Old House

What is that hideous chunk of graffiti-covered concrete behind the cottage, do you know please?

Maurice :cool:
 
Excellent view of the house Pedro. I wondered, if they’re planning to demolish it would they clear the area around it ? Or they may be using it for storage? But hopefully it is going to stay. Viv.
 
pedro penn said:
A side view photo of the house on the junction of Bridge Street and Holliday Street today with the redevelopment activity at Arena Central in the background across the road. I had allows assumed it was part of a longer terrace but after reading the thread it seems to have always been just the single house. I wonder if the land it stands on belongs to one of the developments or is separately owned?
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Great picture. Hopefully they are clearing all the weeds & brambles out of the garden area to stop any more wall falling down.
 
JudiM said:
Love these pictures, not only do they show the cottage, they also show what used to be where my place of work is.
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Thanks for the old photos. Its interesting to see how the area used to be. For a good view of the building from the other side as it sits just outside the Arena Central development today you can zoom in on the live camera at

Progress | Arena Central, Birmingham

Watch the Arena Central vision come to life through our time-lapse camera above, or view the work in progress images and our latest time-lapse video below.
arena-central.com arena-central.com
 
ellbrown said:
Got that old house from Holliday Street near the aqueduct in this shot of the new 3 Arena Central. Close to Bridge Street.

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I see all the silver cladding is on the new HMRC building. They had only just starting putting it on when I started working from home.
 
It's the Blockbusters buildings next to the TETRIS building (Holiday Inn Express). They must have finished it in the last 5 months, although the lower floors haven't been cladded yet.
 
ellbrown said:
It's the Blockbusters buildings next to the TETRIS building (Holiday Inn Express). They must have finished it in the last 5 months, although the lower floors haven't been cladded yet.
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To think people think these eyesores are nice , plus well designed . Five months just about sums it up , what a mishmash
 
Williamstreeter said:
To think people think these eyesores are nice , plus well designed . Five months just about sums it up , what a mishmash
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It's taken a lot longer to build - a couple of years - it's just the silver cladding that has gone on since March. Normally, I'd be working directly opposite & so have seen all the Arena Central development go up, included HSBC building. Quite fascinating to watch.
 
In twenty years, given the way Birmingham authorities plan things these modern structures may well be gone and new pleasant looking buildings or more eyesores- time will tell - could take their place.
 
There is a boarded up house/building at the junction of bridge street and Holliday st Birmingham Would anyone know what it was.
thanks col
 
I’m moving your post to an existing thread which you’ll find of interest. We’ve discussed this house at length. Viv.

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There seems to be some movement on the house. Views from Google Streetview. There's a To Let sign up and bricks are stacked up against the back wall. Viv.
 

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Planning links don't work very well:

Planning consent 2020
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If anyone wants to visit the planning site and search for that application number there are some documents about the history -some I don't understand but some is interesting.

Additional 2021
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think we know its a listed building and looking at the planning apps over the years there has been quite a few different ideas as to what to do with it..

lyn
 
Hi

This is an old thread that’s had some recent activity so hopefully of interest.

I’m currently sat with my Mom’s lifelong friend, Eileen, reminiscing and she asked me if I could find out anything about one of her childhood homes so I did a bit of research and came across this thread.

I can hopefully shed some light on this building for those interested.

My Mom’s friend is Eileen West now Eileen Turton, her parents were Elsie and Frank. She was an only child and Frank was born in Holliday Street.

The building belonged to British Waterways and was then classed as Worcester Wharf, the address was 19 Bridge St.

Her Dad worked on the wharf after leaving the Army and was offered accommodation as part of the job; this property.

The whole building was one house and they lived there for 8 years.

She moved in with her mom and dad, dad died in 1964, they were allowed to stay until Eileen got married and her mom had to move out then in 1970.

So Eileen lived there from 1962-1970 are 15/16 to age 23.

The rent was £1 a week, they had to pay as they had a bathroom fitted, prior to that it was free.

To her knowledge no one moved in after them and it was never used as a home again.

It comprised 3 bedrooms on the first floor, on the ground floor was a front room to one end of the house and another living room, then along the long hallway was a main room they mostly lived in, kitchen and bathroom and the walled garden. There was also a cellar and outside toilet.

It’s always been listed as far as she remembers hence why it’s been built all around and not demolished, the nearby Holliday Street Aqueduct is too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday_Street_Aqueduct

Kind regards, Lisa
 
flyingbrick said:
Hi

This is an old thread that’s had some recent activity so hopefully of interest.

I’m currently sat with my Mom’s lifelong friend, Eileen, reminiscing and she asked me if I could find out anything about one of her childhood homes so I did a bit of research and came across this thread.

I can hopefully shed some light on this building for those interested.

My Mom’s friend is Eileen West now Eileen Turton, her parents were Elsie and Frank. She was an only child and Frank was born in Holliday Street.

The building belonged to British Waterways and was then classed as Worcester Wharf, the address was 19 Bridge St.

Her Dad worked on the wharf after leaving the Army and was offered accommodation as part of the job; this property.

The whole building was one house and they lived there for 8 years.

She moved in with her mom and dad, dad died in 1964, they were allowed to stay until Eileen got married and her mom had to move out then in 1970.

So Eileen lived there from 1962-1970 are 15/16 to age 23.

The rent was £1 a week, they had to pay as they had a bathroom fitted, prior to that it was free.

To her knowledge no one moved in after them and it was never used as a home again.

It comprised 3 bedrooms on the first floor, on the ground floor was a front room to one end of the house and another living room, then along the long hallway was a main room they mostly lived in, kitchen and bathroom and the walled garden. There was also a cellar and outside toilet.

It’s always been listed as far as she remembers hence why it’s been built all around and not demolished, the nearby Holliday Street Aqueduct is too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday_Street_Aqueduct

Kind regards, Lisa
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To add Eileen went there in 2007 when she registered her husband’s death and the building had barely any roof so it’s been repaired since.

She has some photos so if she can find them I’ll post them here.
 
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