Does anyone have a photo of Congreve Street from the 1880s or 1890s? We are planning publication of a memoir and the writer was a boy living at No 22 and a half Congreve Street during these years. According to the memoir the building, a confectioners and small cafe run by the boy's parents, was demolished to make way for civic buildings at the beginning of the 1900s. It would be good if we good find a suitable photo for the cover of the book.
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Congreve Street 1880s and 1890s
- Thread starter Mark Todd
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Welcome to the forum Mark.
There is the problem of copyright with any photo used for commercial purposes. Cannot show you a photo, but if you go to post 19 at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...views-of-birmingham-c-1870.41158/#post-559294 then there is a drawing of that area of the street around 1870,, with attributions I gave to the various buildings. There is a confectioner and a "boarding and eating house, which might possibly be the cafe, The original drawings are apparently in the Birmingham Reference library who may hold a copyright, though I got them from a prewar J of Birmingham & Warwickshire Archeological Society.. dont know the copyright situation.
the scan on the forum is rather small. Can provide you with a larger version if it is of interest
There is the problem of copyright with any photo used for commercial purposes. Cannot show you a photo, but if you go to post 19 at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...views-of-birmingham-c-1870.41158/#post-559294 then there is a drawing of that area of the street around 1870,, with attributions I gave to the various buildings. There is a confectioner and a "boarding and eating house, which might possibly be the cafe, The original drawings are apparently in the Birmingham Reference library who may hold a copyright, though I got them from a prewar J of Birmingham & Warwickshire Archeological Society.. dont know the copyright situation.
the scan on the forum is rather small. Can provide you with a larger version if it is of interest
Thank you very much - this is extremely helpful. The picture could be suitable though it doesn't go up to 22 and a half. There may have been a confectioners on the site in 1870, though the family didn't move there from Bell Barn Road until about 1889, and going by the memoir it was never boarding house when they had it - just a small premises, half of a house as the number shows. We have several photos for the memoir but they are only of people, and it would be good if we could find a suitable picture of the area for the front cover - of course the publisher would check the copyright. Please let me know if you come across anything else that might be suitable, and I can let you know what is decided in the end.
The book is now out - we couldn't find a suitable location photo so in the end the cover used photos of the people rather than the place.
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