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Floodgate St
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ellbrown
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Of that end, I've only got recent photos of 80-82 Floodgate Street
80 - 82 Floodgate Street, Digbeth - corner of River Street by ell brown, on Flickr
80 - 82 Floodgate Street, Digbeth - corner of River Street by ell brown, on Flickr
Is most likely where the warehouses are now.
80 - 82 Floodgate Street, Digbeth - corner of River Street by ell brown, on Flickr
80 - 82 Floodgate Street, Digbeth - corner of River Street by ell brown, on Flickr
Is most likely where the warehouses are now.
Christopherzzz
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Does anybody have maps or old photographs of Floodgate Street circa 1820 (especially the rear of number 60!)
Radiorails
master brummie
The two maps (posts 3 and 5) seem the same: they have the same date. It is curious how both 60 and 88 whilst even numbers are on opposite sides of the street. I have seen it mentioned that this kind of irregularity - by present standards - ws not uncommon. Was there a time or actual date when the city decided on the more well known pattern of numbering premises came about?
Early on most street numbering seems to have been consecutive - 1,2,3,4,5..., up one side and then down the other. Later , particularly around the early 1880s, but also some earlier and some later, the numbering was changed to odd one side, even the other. Floodgate st is, as far as I know, still consecutive. At least it is on the c1950 map.
Floodgate Street mothers and children on a day trip to the Lickey’s in 1937. Viv.
Source: British Newspaper Archives.
Source: British Newspaper Archives.
