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Hello Thylacine and you David, of course you are both correct and as there is a connection to Broad St. I would consider the comments and information as relevant. The problem when posting is that to add every detail would take too much of my time and prevent others from adding to it. Anyone who does not know the story of Broad St. will find it difficult to believe the amount of history involved. After the road stories of course the canals could be discussed.
 
View attachment 54939This is St. Martins Place and the cottages were built about 1800. There is a tale that it is called St. Martins because the ropes for St. Martins Church were made by a ropemaker who lived in one of the cottages. It is also on record that a railway company bought the substrata beneath this area for the purpose of building the Birmingham-Wolverhampton Railway. A portion of that railway still exists and parts of the footings/foundations for ICC has soundproofing installed to eliminate noise and vibration.
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Your first picture max is the Armistice Day celebrations being hosted by the hall of Memory in 1926, but the second one is new to me.
Very nice pics.
 
A few more photos of interest i hope. The 2nd picture is dated 1896. Max
 
Aidan said:
MaX - your pic 3 is a nice early view of "Old Orleans" with streetview at https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=52...d=zxRVk-Hs8QhfsnfrT_fGrA&cbp=12,302.8,,1,2.97
:-) Even the wall/fence has survived.
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After the building was used as the Children's Hospital, it became the Royal Orthopeadic Hospital known as the Cripples Hospital. The Childrens Hospital when it was in Ladywood Road had Edward VII Memorial Hospital over the door which dates the move to 1911 to WWI period. The ROH now at Woodlands Northfield has recently had a centenary celebration but I am not sure whether that is of the ROH itself or the Woodlands.
 
DavidGrain said:
After the building was used as the Children's Hospital, it became the Royal Orthopeadic Hospital known as the Cripples Hospital. The Childrens Hospital when it was in Ladywood Road had Edward VII Memorial Hospital over the door which dates the move to 1911 to WWI period. The ROH now at Woodlands Northfield has recently had a centenary celebration but I am not sure whether that is of the ROH itself or the Woodlands.
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I never realised it was once "The Cripples" hospital, i had to attend there in the late 60s for tests on my joints (i was only 18/19 at the time)
 
The old Municipal Bank is currently being used as a film studio where they are now filming Toast the autobiography of Nigel Slater's teen age years which is expected to be broadcast on Christmas Day.

See https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2010/07/22/oscar-takes-on-young-nigel-slater-role-in-toast/

How do I know this? Because they were going to use my house for location shooting then pulled out four days before shooting due to start. By the way my house is nothing like Highbury Hall which you will see on the video attached to the link I have just quoted.
 
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Back in 2006 a small group of us were able to get access to the Municipal Bank. Here are a couple of photos I took. The first is the Safe Deposit with over 1000 private safe deposit boxes. They were all empty, we checked. The second is one of bronze name plates which used to be by the main door
 
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View attachment 55211An office block on the corner of Broad St and Easy Row
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The Masonic Hall would have been built later to the right of that building. Was a little confused at first because I had not realised that Easy Row continued south past here. Do we know at what point Easy Row because Suffolk Street, I am guessing at the junction with Paradise Street as my map is not clear on this. The address of the canal company was always given as Paradise Street although it was actually opposite Paradise Street.
 
Hello David, on the Kempsons map 1810 it looks as though suffolk St,Broad St and Eay Row form the junction but I would not know any exact details.
 
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I am guessing that Paradise Street marks the junction of Easy Row and Suffolk Street. I was looking at the Godfrey map of early 1900s and the name Easy Row seems to go past the Broad St junction but the nname Suffolk Street is not shown until below Swallow Street.

Looking back at my old Midland Red timetables the route into the city was shown as Broad St, Easy Row, Edmund St, Congreave St, Victoria Square and the route out as Paradise Street, Easy Row, Broad Street
 
David, someone on this forum will have a map or access to one with the details you want.
 
Kellys lists Easy Row as being from Cambridge st to Paradise St, and Suffolk St as being from Smallbrook St to Paradise St.
Mike
 
DavidGrain said:
I am guessing that Paradise Street marks the junction of Easy Row and Suffolk Street. I was looking at the Godfrey map of early 1900s and the name Easy Row seems to go past the Broad St junction but the nname Suffolk Street is not shown until below Swallow Street.

Looking back at my old Midland Red timetables the route into the city was shown as Broad St, Easy Row, Edmund St, Congreave St, Victoria Square and the route out as Paradise Street, Easy Row, Broad Street
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David i have a number of street maps of Birmingham, is there a particular time period you have in mind ? then i can see what i have and scan it . Max
 
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I think I mentioned in an earler post that Symphony Hall would be subject to terrible noise and vibration from the railway running beneath the building if it was'nt for the fact that it is cushioned on rubber mountings. The picture is of one of about 700 such mountings.
 
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