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City Centre Photographs

Bob I have to agree there is so much going on in this photo, even the men up the ladders I presume cleaning windows.
 
Brilliant photo Bob, what the "Elf & Safety", mob would say about working off those ladders to-day, must be 60' the outside one, Lord only knows.
paul
 
Re: City Centre Photo Album

You will find the archways where the wedding photos were taken are in the Peace Gardens up by Holloway Head.
 
bb1.jpeg About 1880.
Looking along Livery Street from the corner of what is now Colmore Row
 
Stitcher. I am not sure about the title of the Livery st photo. On the building on the extreme right there appears to be a road nameplate apparently starting MONT, which doesn't seem to fit that position
 
Mike

I thought it was called Monmouth St. before it became Colmore Row? At least, that was what it said when someone else posted a low-res version of this picture before.

Paul
 
it definately says 'Monmouth' on the picture Mike but as we all know errors at the printing or editing stage have been known before.
 
Well if Livery St is supposed to be the downhill street on the photo, then can be the junction of Colmore Row because Livery Street ended there and didn't continue on uphill? Although I do have the same photo and it is tagged Livery St from Monmouth St (Colmore Row) 1880.
 
There again if we look at this side entrance to what would be then The Great Western Hotel at the top of Livery Street then we can see the entrance that appears on the right in the 1880 photo.
 

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Yes, I think actually it was I that mentioned monmouth St !! I had thought the change had been a bit earlier, but according to Carl Chinn (Streets of Brum) Monmouth st disappeared in 1879, so it would all fit.
Mike
 
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This is a photo of the dismantling of the railings around St Philips Cathedral on Colmore Row for the war effort.


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I think these railings look much better than the ones there now, these are shorter for one thing. Pity that the stuff collected for the 'war effort' actually ended up in the North Sea, what a massive waste of money and indeed, effort in collecting them!
 
Stitcher thanks for that photo - I had some relatives living in Livery Street in the 1850's, and this gives me a better idea of what it looked like. The later photo is how I remember it from my childhool. Sad that it all went west.
 
10.jpg 1949.
Look at all the people in Victoria Square waiting for a glimpse of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to arrive.
 
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I have no information with this one, it was in the same envelope as the picture in #1057 so would this be the Royal couples arrival?
 
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Wonder Dennis if it's near the bottom end (near Lancaster Circus) of either Steelhouse Lane or Corporation Street. It looks like quite a wide street to me. Viv.
 
Dennis Williams said:
Anyone know which Street this was taken in? I am interested in the pub in the distance..?
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There's something wrong with this picture. Download it and zoom in. There's a white faced building with the words "Sheffields Ltd. Head Office" visible. Slightly to the left of this and a little lower is a shadow image of half of the building with a "To Let" sign above it. It should be possible to place the street if someone has an address for Sheffield's head office but it shouldn't be assumed that the picture is absolutely real.
 
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