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City Centre Photographs

I remember Hudson's book shop Trevor and my uncle owned a Riley the same as the one in the photo. Topsy those poor horses having to drag those loads through town. Jean.
 
The Hudsons book shop on Gosta Green opened in the 60s and was on the corner of Sheep St basically to provide for the then Gosta Green Technical College.Dek
 
The picture by Topsy is a stunner and the best one I have seen. And, not to be picky but it is not in fact the Bull Ring but a super shot of Moat Lane in the days when the old Smithfield Market was doing business sitting on top of where the old Manor Moat used to be on the left. I know we all know this but there may be some new members viewing for the first time.
 
Agree, that's some photo! What a bustling market area it once was. You can almost smell the fresh produce (well maybe not at the end of the day with all the rotting cabbage in the gutter!!! ) excellent find Topsy.

On Hudson's Bookshop. I remember the annexe in the arcade too (thought I'd imagined that) but I can't quite remember how you got from the shop on New Street to the arcade at the back of the shop. Did you go through the back of the shop? At my school, if you were awarded a school prize you were allowed to go the Hudsons and choose a book as your prize to be presented to you at Speech Day. The school must have had an arrangement with Mr Hudson. Now don't go quoting me on this, but when Hudson's closed (must have been in the 1970s) I think the shop became "Bus Stop boutique. Viv.
 
There was an entrance to the passage on New Street...open to the sky and the passage was a 'T' as I recall branching off to the right at a barber shop. I suspect the backs of the stores on New Street were there. It looks like the shop continued on the other side of the passage also.
 
bgt.jpegDudley Street junction with Smallbrook Street after I nightime air raid in 1941.
 
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I found this item in some old newspapers that i am going through and thought it may be of interest.
Regards.
 
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Sorry if this has been posted before.I am slowly working through some old newspapers that have been given to me.
 
Don,t know much about this picture but nice anyway.
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The photos in the window THE SECOND FROM THE LEFT LOOKS LIKE Clem Attlie "Labour" ( hope I spelt that right ) so I agree Bill123 Election fever indeed.
 
Post 706 is when the Birmingham Post and Mail had an office in New Street. The sign A38 points down the ramp at Stephenson Street. Date would be 1950 when Labour had to call an election because the 5 year government period had run out, or just 12 months later when the period of government after 1950 obviously hadn't run out but things for the Labour government had gone pear-shaped.
 
Astoness said:
smashing keegs please keep them coming....

lyn
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Photo of Spiceal Street very 'special' Lyn, isn't it? In 1958 a record of peaceful progress after the Second World War about to be shattered by a period of unimagined change. By then the bulldozers had started to move in on Smallbrook Street in the vicinity of the Scala Cinema and were working their way eastwards...
 
Post 706 is when the Birmingham Post and Mail had an office in New Street. The sign A38 points down the ramp at Stephenson Street. Date would be 1950 when Labour had to call an election because the 5 year government period had run out, or just 12 months later when the period of government after 1950 obviously hadn't run out but things for the Labour government had gone pear-shaped.
 
Richie said:
Photo of Spiceal Street very 'special' Lyn, isn't it? In 1958 a record of peaceful progress after the Second World War about to be shattered by a period of unimagined change. By then the bulldozers had started to move in on Smallbrook Street in the vicinity of the Scala Cinema and were working their way eastwards...
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it is very special richie...just realised that special is an anagram of spiceal lol...wish some of these old streets were still with us...

lyn
 
Agree Elizabeth. I especially like the one showing the Council House/Art Gallery before view. I don't think I've seen that view before. If it wasn't for the Town Hall colonnade in view, it would be difficult to place.
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Viv.
 
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