guilbert53
master brummie
Posting this again as I realised I posed it in the wrong topic first time.
Around the HS2 site in Park St they have now erected large fencing as they are having an archaeology dig, then preparing the site for the station build.
Fixed to these hoardings are number of images, including this map below which I found very interesting (I have shown the modern equivalent after it).
It shows mostly what I guess is Eastside. On the right you can see the canal snaking its way through the area, ending in the "forked tongue" at Warwick bar at the bottom.
Roughly in the centre you can see Curzon St station with the railway lines coming in from the right.
Couple of things I noticed.
Duddeston Street, that runs across almost all the image, is now in fact called Curzon Street.
And in this image Bartholomew Street runs from the bottom left, straight right up to meet Duddeston St. But this of course was before the railway line came in from the right, in to New St station.
This "chopped" the top part of Bartholomew Street off so it had to bend to the right to meet Fazeley St and was renamed New Bartholomew Street.
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Here is the modern version of roughly the same view.
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Around the HS2 site in Park St they have now erected large fencing as they are having an archaeology dig, then preparing the site for the station build.
Fixed to these hoardings are number of images, including this map below which I found very interesting (I have shown the modern equivalent after it).
It shows mostly what I guess is Eastside. On the right you can see the canal snaking its way through the area, ending in the "forked tongue" at Warwick bar at the bottom.
Roughly in the centre you can see Curzon St station with the railway lines coming in from the right.
Couple of things I noticed.
Duddeston Street, that runs across almost all the image, is now in fact called Curzon Street.
And in this image Bartholomew Street runs from the bottom left, straight right up to meet Duddeston St. But this of course was before the railway line came in from the right, in to New St station.
This "chopped" the top part of Bartholomew Street off so it had to bend to the right to meet Fazeley St and was renamed New Bartholomew Street.
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Here is the modern version of roughly the same view.
View attachment 124093