Gas Street basin

[Colroy07]

removing wharf building the beginning of new Birmingham.

 

[Astoness]

great photos colroy...thanks for posting them

lyn

 

[Colroy07]

View attachment 169696this was called bridal street

 

[Colroy07]

this was the front of goods yard onto Suffolk street.

 

[Lloyd]

View attachment 169782this was the front of goods yard onto Suffolk street.

This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!

 

[mikeflan]

This is Allport Street, and the old Matthew Boulton Tech is in the background, where I did 'day release' education whilst an apprentice for Merto Cammell. It was replaced by a new building on Pershore Road, which has itself gone now!

That brings back childhood memories, when I lived at my grans in Selly Oak our #20 bus used to turn around using that building as the terminus, and you'd wait for the bus to come into Suffolk Street bus stop...the street was a cobbled surface...looked very dangerous when wet.

 

[cookie273uk]

I love painting canals, here is another of Gas street Basin one of many I have done of this section. Eric

 

[Morturn]

I love painting canals, here is another of Gas street Basin one of many I have done of this section. Eric

Eric, I love this painting. The boat is just where the Adder was moored in 1966. As a young boy I sat on the roof at the stern and a man took a photo of me

 

[Vivienne14]

An ice-cutter sank in the Basin in 1960 while under conversion to a resource for child excursions. Just as well no-one was aboard at the time. Viv.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Pedrocut]

Don’t think this view has been posted of Gas Street Basin prior to 1970.

Portrait of Birmingham by Bird, Vivian, Publication date 1970

 

[Heartland]

Vivian Bird first produced a smaller version of the book for City of Birmingham Information Department in 1969 and the larger version was made in 1970 with reprints in 1974 and 1979.

 

[Pedrocut]

No sure where this picture of Gas Street Basin was from.

 

[A Sparks]

No sure where this picture of Gas Street Basin was from.

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Maybe there used to be a little man made Island in the middle of the canal there?

 

[Morturn]

Maybe there used to be a little man made Island in the middle of the canal there?

It is, the island is part of the stop lock that still there today. There use to be a single plank as a bridge to get to the island and some of the moored boats. I think it was sometime in the 90’s they build a proper bridge.