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121 was a former Midland Red route so came from outside Birmingham. Londonderry in this instance is an area of West Smethwick.
 
Phil said:
This is a photo of Broad Street taken in 1953, I believe it is near the junction with Bridge St. Can anybody tell me what the square tower is that can be made out over the roofline. I assume it has some connection with the canal wharf, but can anybody define it better for me?

Phil

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I know this question was from a while ago, but the tower & the chimney on the West side of Bridge Street can both be clearly seen in this 1935 aerial photograph (see arrow #1).
Arrow #2 points to the backwall of what later became the Rum Runner night club (273 Broad Street). From Victorian times this building was used as a glass factory. I do not know what it's name was back then, but I was wondering if this glass factory was the Aetna factory mentioned by Vivienne14?

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In 1935 it was called Pearce and Cutler Ltd, glass lead & oil colour merchants,

Jaffa said:
I know this question was from a while ago, but the tower & the chimney on the West side of Bridge Street can both be clearly seen in this 1935 aerial photograph (see arrow #1).
Arrow #2 points to the backwall of what later became the Rum Runner night club (273 Broad Street). From Victorian times this building was used as a glass factory. I do not know what it's name was back then, but I was wondering if this glass factory was the Aetna factory mentioned by Vivienne14?

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There is a bar in the area The Soloman Cutler named after one of the partners in Pearce and Cutler. The original firm was founded in 1815
 
Stitcher said:
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King Edwards Place junction with Broad Street in 1986.
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Er... Hate to say it but that's King Alfreds Place... King Edwards Place was the next road up and had The Tow Rope Cafe & the Crown pub at it's junction with Broad Street.
I left Brum in 1985 after working at The Rum Runner on Broad Street and this photograph is exactly how this scene appears in my head... Wonderful!
 
guilbert53 said:
From roughly the same spot as the photo above. I took this photo in November 1986, before they started building the convention centre.
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Great photo... I notice that some of the shop-fronts in the block between King Afreds Place & King Edwards place are missing in this photo.
I think these 'missing' buildings were where 'Musical Exchanges' second hand music shop used to be as I remember that they had a fire and lost all their guitars sometime around 1982.
 
Hi Faulkes Furriers in Islington Row was called Tudur House and was Started by Miss Elizabeth Faulkes ,she bought one shop and then next door and then the next, Faulkes moved to Cathorpe Road Donne House when the new shopping centre was built on the site of the old shop, with Faulkes keeping a large amount of props such as the stuffed animals in storage above the new shops that were built, i joined the firm in the mid 70 `s and trained in the work room making the coats and then in the early 80`s in the show room, leaving the shop just before it closed, Faulkes Furiiers still operates in the area, i went on to other things before opening my own furriers in Hertfordshire in 2012. I have wonderful memories of Faulkes and all my friends there, the Faulkes Family treated us all as family and even today, we , whom are left ,keep in contact.
 
Hi Foxy!


Here are a couple of photos of Faulke's on Islington Row, I remember my fathers company doing quite a lot of work for them on Islington Row in the early sixties and at their new premises in Stratford upon Avon.
 

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Hi Phil
Nice memorable picture,s I can recall that business also I can recall if anybody else can just on the corner of Islington corner the other side was it Islington row
And just be bore that big store there was another double frontage shop which was full of mi is and furs at a very high value for the rich
This shop was in the early years and been there for a decade when all those around that area was the wealth and Jewish commutity
And I also re ember when that big store open end up and around the corner was a another ladies fashion shop with highly expensive clothes
And the family whom used to be there was a Jewish family well known in Birmingham and the family still produce there own fashion for Lady,s
Just off Bradford street and it was her father whom was the founder and sellers of allied carpets many years ago
Its bugging me I just cannot think of there names just right now big they lived in a veryybig house up Wellington rd edgbaston up until the late seventys
Best wishes astonian
 
Hi Astonian, the name of the family who founded Alied Carpets i think was the Plotniks, spelling may not be correct, Alan Plotnik also seems to ring a bell in my memory,
 
Two views of Broad Street taken from the 16th floor of the Hampton by Hilton Hotel at 200 Broad Street. The first view is looking towards Five Ways and the second is looking towards town and the new library. Dave.
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foxy1 said:
Hi Faulkes Furriers in Islington Row was called Tudur House and was Started by Miss Elizabeth Faulkes ,she bought one shop and then next door and then the next, Faulkes moved to Cathorpe Road Donne House when the new shopping centre was built on the site of the old shop, with Faulkes keeping a large amount of props such as the stuffed animals in storage above the new shops that were built, i joined the firm in the mid 70 `s and trained in the work room making the coats and then in the early 80`s in the show room, leaving the shop just before it closed, Faulkes Furiiers still operates in the area, i went on to other things before opening my own furriers in Hertfordshire in 2012. I have wonderful memories of Faulkes and all my friends there, the Faulkes Family treated us all as family and even today, we , whom are left ,keep in contact.
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Hi Foxy,

Did you know my cousin Ernie Boswell.? Ernie worked for Faulkes Furriers before the war. He joined the army and was captured at Singapore. He was then a Japanese POW working on the Burma Railway until his release at the end of the war. Ernie returned to Faulkes but sadly his experiences at the hands of the Japanese caused his early death. I cannot remember exactly when Ernie died but it was probably before you started in the `1970s. However Ernie had been a long time employee of the firm and you may have heard him mentioned. He was a lovely man and much mourned by his family.

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Hi Old Boy, I never met your cousin, as you say , i think he sadly died before i started at Faulkes, but i do remember Mr Cooper and Horace in the work room often talking about him and very fondly, i know he was very well thought of at Faulkes, i also remember a large Japanese sword, that was in pride of place in the shop, which i beleive was his,

Foxy1
 
An illustration of Broad Street in the early 1890s drawn by W. Hallsworth Waite. I assume we are looking towards town and that the Church of the Messiah is in the far distance. Dave.
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Remember when you HAD to wear a tie to go into the night clubs in Broad St. Often had to share a tie with someone by cutting it in half.
There was a hospital in Broad St. on the right up towards Five Ways, had to go there as a kid 1948 or so.
Also you used to have to tax your car somewhere along there, was it Oozel St or something like that? Somewhere by Bingley Hall

Finally was once on local BBC TV news from a tiny studio somewhere by Martin Hone's place Opposite Lock at Gas St. Basin.
 
Great memories devonjim. I had forgotten about the tie rule which was soon relaxed.
 
I can remember about 1970 having to borrow a female friend's cloth belt to manufacture a temporary tie
 
farmerdave said:
An illustration of Broad Street in the early 1890s drawn by W. Hallsworth Waite. I assume we are looking towards town and that the Church of the Messiah is in the far distance. Dave.
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The closest church is still standing. Built in 1848-9 as a Presbyterian Church but adopted in 1929 as a Second Church of the Christ Scientist. I believe that it is now a nightclub, Flares? Dave.
 
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