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The one car on the right is on the wrong side of the street light ! but you know from meets that my eyes arent great lol .Max
 
i think you are right max...the figures look iffy too...thing is i post me pics that fast i dont take much notice of them till after then i have a good look....well if it is a sketch i think its a good un...

lyn
 
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It surely Lyn Is an artist impression the cars dont look real ? Max
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I think it's a photo that has had cars drawn onto it, either to cover up older ones (so that the picture looked more 'recent' to the time they were drawn on) or to give the sense of size to the building.
 
on closer inspection Lloyd im still not convinced about the people in the pic either...
 
The cars are cut outs pasted on. The lamp-post on the right is going to have us scouring our books and the internet to see if with a similar picture there is a lamp-post there at all.

The people are good likenesses-but it looks all too ToyTown to me: someone posts a letter, people walk together or are perfectly posed. Just like they are going break into a chorus of 'Hello Dolly'.

Anyway, it ain't raining Lyn. Are you sure this is Birmingham?
 
Oh yes it's real, Stitcher had a pic of it earlier in the thread, and there is this one of it as well (which I have because of the bus [surprise, surprise!] built for Johannesburg in 1940 but not shipped out because the war had started, and supplied instead to Birmingham Corporation)
 
Lloyd said:
Oh yes it's real, Stitcher had a pic of it earlier in the thread, and there is this one of it as well (which I have because of the bus [surprise, surprise!] built for Johannesburg in 1940 but not shipped out because the war had started, and supplied instead to Birmingham Corporation)
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What a fantastic building. Max
 
I was going to say that we have already had two photos of this building on this theme but this is a new one and because of the cars, one of which is on the pavement, looks a genuine photo which has been doctored.

Bush House was half way along Broad Street on the opposite side. I remember it for many years with just the steel work. My mother told me that work had started on building it before the war but it was not completed until 1950s and now it is long gone
 
The bus in this picture is passing Kunzle's chocolate and cake manufactory. Just out of shot to the right is Islington Row, and The National Provincial Bank is opposite

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Hello DavidGrain, I could not answer your question I'm afraid but this second picture was taken from a post-card franked in 1926. The book tells us that the tram-lines go past the front of the clock and onto Ladywood Rd. It also says that The Fish Hall is is the building on the exreme right. So, we are looking in the opposite direction to the first picture, I hope this helps a little.
 
This view is almost certainly taken from Hagley Road - the tram coming up Islington Row is on route H, to Bearwood (Kings Head) via Hagley Road.
The bus standing in Broad Street is one of the Tilling Stevens TTA1 double deckers used by Midland Red from their Tennant Street garage, most likely on the 1 route to Moseley. They were red lower deck and black upper deck in livery, and were taken over by the Corporation Tramways in 1914, when they took on the tram livery of blue and cream, the lower panels of the body and the window frames being cream, with a blue panel between the two. It looks as if this one is still in Red livery, so dates the picture as 1912-c1915 (as they all wouldn't be repainted immediately).
The car looks like a GN cyclecar, built between 1910 and 1914, then 1919 to 1923 in Hendon, London. A clearer view of the numberplate would help to date it.
 
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The second view shows both sets of tracks, those to the left of the clock and monument heading for Hagley Road. The King Edward Grammar School is on the right of Hagley Road, behind the cock and monument.
 
Hello Lloyd, the paragraph with the picture tells us that the tram is heading down Islington Row towards the City. This is not the first error I have found, well you found this one but you know what I men.
Thanks for the help and information Lloyd.
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Interesting to see a picture before the buildings on the south side of Broad Street blocked the view. Over the canal I would have thought that it would be more likely to be leasehold rather than a flying freehold but would they have built such an elaborate building on a leasehold tenure.
 
The owners of the canal bed could have disposed of their interest as they so wished, severing it horizontally, in this case rights to build above the canal.
 
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