Stokkie,I don't know about Hingeston Street, except it is in the Jewellery Quarter, but I agree with Richard about the skill levels. Many canal tunnels and bridges have the bricks laid diagonally probably for strength and to display the skills of the bricklayers.
Derek
Thanks Nick, appreciated. Too casual a glance at the map! And I know that you could get to it from Warstone Lane, which I do know. Your route is well described.Stokkie,
Hingeston St was not in Jewellery Quarter.
Coming from the City on 96 bus, It would travel (still does) along Frederick St at Warstone Lane clock it would turn left.
If you went straight on that's Vyse St you would be in heart of Jewellery Quarter.
Turning left at clock, you are on Warstone Lane the cemetery on your right I remember walking down this street in the 50's holding my mother hand tight then it was lit with gas lamps.
At the bottom of the hill you would turn right cross Icknield St to your right was the Mint.
You are now on Hingeston St you are in Hockley the Jewellery Quarter is behind you.
The 96 would go onto Winson Green.
Hope this was helpful if I can add any thing else please ask.
Nick Phillips
Derek, If my memory correct, Hingeston Street, was also a cobbled street but it was fifty-five years since I moved from the area.Thanks Nick, appreciated. Too casual a glance at the map! And I know that you could get to it from Warstone Lane, which I do know. Your route is well described.
Derek
Here’s one from Sutton Coldfield, the council have painted white markings ready to dig it up. Railway Road to King Edward Square.“maybe a nice idea for our intrepid members to now go cobble hunting before they all disappear.”
I hope you mean the cobbles!
Beautiful picture! I hope you are SO wrong with digging up!Here’s one from Sutton Coldfield, the council have painted white markings ready to dig it up. Railway Road to King Edward Square.
Dave, this is was childhood area back in the 50s. The area had many different types of housing. Some were back to back houses. Some even had a garden. I remember our house only had one cold water tap an outside toilet, a coal fire in winter that kept one room warm in the winter. A cold house in winter was normal.Hi,
Back in the 1960's and early 70s I sometimes used the 96 bus which went down Hingeston Street,
and I was struck by the fan shaped patterns which were in some areas of the cobbles which formed
part of the street.
This suggested that at the time when they were laid down the street must have consisted of
high quality houses, so did Hingeston Street predate the housing which was there in the 60s/70's?
Kind regards
Dave
I wonder why they were left intact?cobbles as far as the eye can see in new bond st
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ive no idea richard but there are plenty still intact that have never been covered over by the modern tarmac...I wonder why they were left intact?
Lyn & Richard,ive no idea richard but there are plenty still intact that have never been covered over by the modern tarmac...
lyn
thanks derek...yes reading that report the cobbles of new bond st will not be there for very longLyn & Richard,
I think this is a development zone. It is nearish to Curzon Street HS2 and I think that there are plans to develop large areas of Digbeth and Bordesley.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/huge-760-home-development-set-22265396
Derek
Hazardous in the rain on a bike but looks wonderful!Another cobbled street: Holland Street