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City Centre Photographs

Thanks Richie for the view that I crave for, its a very strange thing that there are very photos taken of the junction of Navigation Street and Hill Street looking at the Guinness sign on the Launa Dixon / Chetwyns Shop? Relative to all the other views around the "City Center"
 
Hi Bob

Here a good one for you I've been saving it for you, but you don't seem to be on the forum so much of late.

Phil
 

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bobsummers said:
Thanks Richie for the view that I crave for, its a very strange thing that there are very photos taken of the junction of Navigation Street and Hill Street looking at the Guinness sign on the Launa Dixon / Chetwyns Shop? Relative to all the other views around the "City Center"
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Bobsummers (and everyone), the digital Guinness Clock photo comes from a new, second selection of nostalgia photos on the reconstruction website for the new New Street Station; a previous album was released earlier in the year.

The New Street reconstruction people are a bit shy of their links to the past photos putting the section right at the bottom of their home page. Thanks to fellow sleuths at Skyscraper City for pointing out the new album which readers can get at more directly here

https://www.newstreetnewstart.co.uk...llery/new-street---past,-present--future.aspx
 
Thanks for posting the photo of the Engineering Centre in Stephenson Place, Carolina. I used to wander in there in the early 1950's when I was at school up the road at
Pitman's College on Corporation Street. Ever the explorer I loved that place. I saw some interesting science exhibitions in there. It was a special place for those kind of Exhibitions. The Exchange Building was such a wonderful place as was New Street Station frontage with the Queen's Hotel. PASSING COMMENTS article from 1955

A Permanent Engineering Centre said to be Britain's only permanent engineering exhibition is the Birmingham Exchange and Engineering Centre in Stephenson Place, next to New Street Station. That it is popular is shown by the number of visitors, which rose to a total of over 5,000 last November.


Many meetings are booked there by bodies such as those representing transport and production engineering. Numerous exhibits are on view for cornparatively long periods, but short-period shows are arranged at frequent intervals. For example, a special exhibition on Radioactive isotopes in Industry and Research is taking place there. It closes on February 26.

Overseas buyers are especially welcome and recently a party of commercial counsellors, trade attaches and consuls visited the centre.

Inquiries are being received from practically all parts of the world and details of more than 4,000 concerns in British engineering are listed, so that these can be answered, whether or not the information required concerns the products of exhibitors.
 
#1135, I remember visiting that place with my school in the late 50's, it looks like an old "Hillman Huskey", just visible on the far right of photo.
paul
 
Saw these in the Mail Nostalgia section...but there were no captions....I know I should know the answers, but where is the Street pic, and who was the geezer? Anyone know?


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The street looks a bit like Colmore Row to me - maybe where the Gaumont was built. The geezer looks like everybody's Uncle James.
 
Not sure of road, but "Sweet Nell of Old Drury", advertised on placards, was first played in London in august 1900, so presumably it was shortly after that
 
Dennis Williams said:
Saw these in the Mail Nostalgia section...but there were no captions....I know I should know the answers, but where is the Street pic, and who was the geezer? Anyone know?


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nice pic there dennis...oisin im not sure its colmore row..unless its the angle being disseptive it looks to be on an incline to me and colmore row is straight...although is does have a look of colmore row..

lyn
 
Richie you took the words right out of my mouth! I have been pondering this whilst washing up. I am sure I know the man, too, but my brain won't work at the moment.
 
It looks similar, but then the hotel sign is at the wrong side , as the station hotel would be on the rigt looking from Livery st. There weren't any streets going off to the left (as in photo ) if you were looking from snow hill side.
 
Yes Rupert, b ut the sign is on the left of the picture. The station hotel was just at the front of the station (and the turrets do look a bit like that hotel). If it was Livery St, the camera was looking at the side of snow hill station, and the hotel was the station hotel, then the hotel would be on the right of the picture
 
It's Stephenson St at the rear of the Theatre Royal. I don't know who the gentleman is though.
 
The map I have in front of me, Phil, shows the Collonade as running the whole length of Ethel Street - (the map of Birmingham 1902-11). Although Ethel Street is a hill, the hotel runs the wrong way in the photo, it should run down the hill, not across. I also think that the horse (I think it's a horse) is standing on a corner. Baffling. One thing is certain, the hotel building is definitely Victorian!
 
Glad I'm not the only one baffled! Been back and forwards along Stephenson Street on Streetview and just can't make this out. Don't seem to be able to find any similarities at all. Would be a great help if someone could show the location on an old map. Thanks. Viv.
 
Shortie

What you are seeing is the bottom end of the hotel that ran from Ethel Street along Stephenson St to Colonnade Passage, here is another photo taken of the rear of the Theatre Royal. The date given is 1901.
 

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