I think the Bull Ring was the real heart of Birmingham. I can remember it like this photo with crowds of people and all the stalls and barrows with their goods and produce. If we were going up to town this was usually where we were going. Off on the bus with Mum or Dad. Nan or Gran or Aunties. Watching the sheets and towels being sold or the baskets of china. All watched over by Nelson!
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Bull Ring 1930s - 1950s
- Thread starter williams
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Nice photo. I think it's a post office letter box Lyn. And I think a VR (Victoria) one. Viv.
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Smudger
master brummie
Definitely a police box.
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This was it in the 1890s.
ahh should have looked closer viv...i can now see it says office so yes its a post box
lyn
Richard Dye
master brummie
Great picture Lyn! As a 6 to 11 year old I remember walking up that hill with my father. He used to go somewhere just below that photo. I always thought it was the longest steepest hill.
Richard Dye
master brummie
I remember those net bags, what a blast from the past! I always wondered why? Nothing I ever put in them stayed and they seemed somewhat fragile, the holes always too big for what I was trying to carry.
apparently richard you can still buy those net bags...no for me as apart from anything else people can see what you have got in the bag lol
lyn
Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes!
Probably just before the Bull Ring was hit during WW2. Looks quite peaceful, but chaos would soon descend on this part of the City Centre following, not only the bombing, but the subsequent rebuilding and road redevelopment of the 1960s
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive