Corporation Street

[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

 

[Oldun]

The Stork Hotel

 

[Vivienne14]

What a wonderful record of the Stork including a detailed record of the layout. Thanks for posting. I have set up a thread exclusively for the Stork Hotel here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...rk-hotel-corporation-street-old-square.54159/

Viv.

 

[Astoness]

just been going through my photos of corporation st and noticed this one...no date but could have been taken during the war or just after...is that the remains of a plane on the back of the low loader?...also noticed the letters RAF on the truck which of course may not mean much the man to the right seems to be wearing uniform...

lyn

 

[Enel]

just been going through my photos of corporation st and noticed this one...no date but could have been taken during the war or just after...is that the remains of a plane on the back of the low loader?...also noticed the letters RAF on the truck which of course may not mean much the man to the right seems to be wearing uniform...

lyn


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Fascinating. The aircraft fuselage is that of a De Havilland Mosquito. These were largely constructed of wood, and the airframe manufacture was carried out in various locations, often by furniture makers.

 

[Astoness]

thanks enel...just noticed a policeman in front of the truck...he must be standing on something unless hes over 8 foot tall

 

[oldMohawk]

Corporation Street was a one way street except for trams which travelled on a single track opposite to all other traffic. It look as if the RAF truck has broken down and the buses are having to go round it in the centre of the road thus blocking the trams.

 

[Astoness]

Corporation Street was a one way street except for trams which travelled on a single track opposite to all other traffic. It look as if the RAF truck has broken down and the buses are having to go round it in the centre of the road thus blocking the trams.

that sounds reasonable to me OM...

lyn