Corporation Street

[Astoness]

yes looks like a coachman to me as well mike

lyn

 

[Vivienne14]

Harrod’s still have a coach with coachmen who wear a green greatcoat but it’s single breasted. Perhaps it was a coachman attached to a large store ? Or it might just have been a coachman and carriage for a family. Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

The Cobden Hotel seen in the photo (with the clock and the spire) was opened in 1883. So the photo is between 1883 and the 1950s when the Cobden was demolished. It’s definitely not the latter part of that timescale. I think it’s likely to be late 1800s, just before the turn of the century. Viv.

 

[GeorgieG]

Hi ,
I am looking for premises from the 1970's corner of Corporation Street and Union Street the shop was England Shoes I would like to know what was next door to it please ,all i can remember was a doorway and stairs and when you climbed them it was like a clothes warehouse, I have asked a few people they all remember it but can't think of the name, it was nearly opposite Cherry Street. Somebody said it will be listed in Kellys directories but i don't know if that is correct. Hope someone can help. Sandra

Hello Sandra... I have only just seen your enquiry in 2014... and the doorway and stairs you are mentioning was the ABC Warehouse..... but before that I went to school there when it was Pitmans College and previously my mother went there too when it was Lawrence's College. ... and Pitmans had to move out from Corporation Street to a new Building down (Norfolk House) in the Bullring. We would go up the stairs and turn left to go up another staircase and on the right was the Headmasters Office.... further up the staircase and right to the top of the building were classrooms. A wonderful old building. Georgie.

 

[Vivienne14]

A c1940s view up Corporation Street before the large Rackhams Departmental Store was built. Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

No wonder a zebra crossing was eventually installed at the bottom on Corporation Street. An incredibly busy crossing point - sorry no date though. Viv.

 

[Astoness]

smashing photo viv...full of life

lyn

 

[Vivienne14]

Someone may remember Brook Motors at 248 Corporation Street. I don’t have a date for this photo. Viv.

 

[Radiorails]

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Brook_MotorsHoever
A Huddersfield company with six or so branches in principal cities.

 

[Susan shaw]

I agree, with #24, what ever have the Birmingham City planners done in the last 50 years,? they have torn down some of the most beautiful and historic, iconic buildings, in Western Europe, and replaced them with totally bland unsympathetic and unsightly monstrosity.s, the new library is an exception, shame. Purely a personal opinion you understand. Paul

Hi Paul, I have just found this thread. The pictures are absolutely amazing. So busy, so full of life. The buildings are beautiful. I agree with your comments. By the time I had come to the last page, I have to admit I was a bit tearful. I wasn't around in the thirties or early forties but I only lived a stones throw from the city centre, (uptown girl) lol, so I knew it well.
Thanks again to staff and members for photos and your knowledge of this wonderful forum.
Regards, Sue

 

[NicolaHughes]

Nice one Stitcher, always glad to see Corporation Street which to me always felt like the essence of Brum. There was always something going on. My Dad was the head waiter at the New Victoria Hotel for some years from 1946 and I seem to have spent hours looking down on the passing parade of life from the Dining room window.
Thanks for the memories from tuther side of the globe. Tim

I was wondering when the New Victoria hotel on Corporation street closed? I have a relative on the 1939 register working there as a waiter. Thank you.

 

[tim eborn]

I was wondering when the New Victoria hotel on Corporation street closed? I have a relative on the 1939 register working there as a waiter. Thank you.

Sorry cant help as lost any contact when Dad and Mom came to join us here in Oz. Last I heard it sounded that it was going down hill but that must have been 20-30 years ago.

 

[NicolaHughes]

Thank you. I’ve found photos etc online and on here but no information on when it closed or what it is now. It looks like it’s near a bridal shop now.

 

[Vivienne14]

Walter Austin, gowns and costumier of 71-77 Corporation Street c1906. Viv

 

[Vivienne14]

Remembering home. Viv.

Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Vivienne14]

Now that’s a lot of snow ! Not entirely sure which part of Corporation Street. Viv.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Radiorails]

Looks like the junction with Martineau Street with the tram overhead. I think the shop on the left is a Dolcis shoe shop.

 

[Astoness]

this is said to be taken in birmingham...can anyone confirm or not as the case maybe...

thanks

lyn

 

[mikejee]

What you can see of the building next door, it would fit

 

[Radiorails]

Yes, that is the C&A store, immediately after WW2 and before alterations giving a new frontage in Corporation Street..

 

[Astoness]

great i thought it had a brummie look...thanks mike and alan that confirms things..we can even see the crack in both photos on the side wall of the building on the left..

lyn

 

[Sugar]

In picture number 2 What is that that big tower belong to in the middle of corporation street.I presume it's not there now but I would like to know .I am sure one of you knowledgeable members would know.Thankyou.

 

[A Sparks]

Would it be the Methodist Central Hall?
What would the spire in the left of the street light be?
Perhaps someone would know?

 

[Radiorails]

The bus looks like 295 HOJ 395. A one off, precursor to fifty others. JOJ 131 - 180. They were distinctive as the rear destination was much placed much higher.

 

[mikejee]

Would it be the Methodist Central Hall?
What would the spire in the left of the street light be?
Perhaps someone would know?

Yes the Central methodist Hall. Still there, but not in good condition

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[A Sparks]

Yes the Central methodist Hall. Still there, but not in good condition

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Thanks!
Sorry to hear it's in bad condition.

Do you know what the spire behind the buildings on the left hand side of the photograph is too?
I just can't think of what it might have been - looks like a church too but I don't know of one that was there.

 

[mikejee]

I think it would be the Cobden hotel

 

[A Sparks]

Thanks!

 

[Oldun]

Central Restaurant/Yates Wine Lodge Edit. Here’s a link to the Central Restaurant/Yates’ Wine Lodge thread

Yates’s Wine Lodge Central Restaurant Corporation Street

:!: There was a small, spirited, correspondence on Yates's Wine Lodge on Corporation Street, same block as Smith's printed matter retail outlet, and of course further along who could forget Midland Educational and Camera House? When was that august establishment opened - as by the 1960s it...

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[Oldun]

The Stork Hotel