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Duddeston Railway Viaduct Brunel 1846 and area around

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Bambi

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Hello,

I am doing a design project in the Eastside area of Birmingham. It focuses on the Duddeston Railway Viaduct built in 1846 by Brunel. I want to find information on this in particular and the area. I want to know about the things that have disappeared, interesting factories or images. I would also like to find out more about the Cast Iron Urinal on Fazeley Street. I have found two others in birmingham - one by the Jewellery quarter station dated 1889 MacFarlayne Foundry and one hidden under a viaduct near to the Queensway expressway.

Can anyone help? Books, articles, images, relatives??. The library has been failry useless on these two things and the books to hand are really limited.

I would also love to see what the area looked like prior to 1846 in either map or photographic form.
 
"Temples of Relief"

Temples of Relief

I'm not sure where to put this thread but monuments seems as good as anything! The heading is nicked from the cast iron urinal in the jewellery quarter outside the station - see pics. These 'temples' used to be commonplace around Brum and I have several photos taken in the late 80s/early 90s...
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One thing that disappeared is the Co-op dairy stables. The horses were kept in the arches along Viaduct St. Dek
 
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