Gas Street / Holliday Street

[ellbrown]

I went down Holliday Street, then up Gas Street.

View from the bottom of Gas Street


Gas Street, Birmingham - Nitenite Cityrooms and Holliday Street by ell brown, on Flickr


Gas Street, Birmingham - Nitenite Cityrooms and La Dolce Vita by ell brown, on Flickr


Gas Street, Birmingham - La Dolce Vita by ell brown, on Flickr

View from the bridge at Gas Street Basin

Both Holliday Street (on the left) and Gas Street (on the right)


Holliday Street and Gas Street, Birmingham by ell brown, on Flickr

 

[Rupert]

Great shots e. Hard to believe it's Brum. Are those flats/condo's and what do they go for.

 

[ellbrown]

Nitenite Cityrooms is a budget hotel. Don't know about the flats.


Nitenite Cityrooms - Holliday Street by ell brown, on Flickr


Nitenite Cityrooms by ell brown, on Flickr

 

[Wendy]

Nice photo's of Gas Street. I love to walk round there now. My son has a friend who lives in the apartments around Brindley Place very expensive. There are some nice bars and restaurants.

 

[ellbrown]

Got some shots of the new Register Office today.

Built around 2005. Opened 2006 (I think).


Register Office, Holliday Street, Birmingham by ell brown, on Flickr


Register Office, Holliday Street, Birmingham by ell brown, on Flickr


Those steps at the bottom of Gas Street - the gate was locked for some reason.

 

[Vivienne14]

That looks like a vast improvement (to me) on the previous Register Office. Thanks for posting Ell. Viv.

 

[ellbrown]

Yeah it is Viv. All modern round here (with little old bits left around like the aqueduct bridge nearby).

 

[Wendy]

It's nice inside too I went there last year to pick up a birth certificate. We have our own gem too John Yates he is such a help when finding if we have the right certificate...legend!

 

[Tommy Blackwell]

My great, great grandmother Kate Blackwell died at 242 Holliday Street in 1891, so it's amazing to see the street's still there.
What kind of place was Holliday street like in the late 19th century? Pretty grim I can imagine as she died when she was just around 42/43 years old.

 

[Astonian]

Hi there ;
yes very impressive pics of the transformation of both gas street and more so of holiday street
but as anybody got any pics of the old gas street and especialy holiday street
when it was just deserted and the streets was just old cobbled streets and very quite to walk up there such as the early forties and fifties and only the public works yard was only up there before they removed those old blue bricks i have memories of walking up there and with the bridge wih the crest on ;have a nice day astonian

 

[Phil]

Hi Astonian, will these do?

Phil

 

[cookie273uk]

Looks all very nice and modern (?) but I preferred it as it was, may be its the painter in me as I spent many happy hours in the early 1980s painting Gas St basin and surrounds, doesn't appeal to me now. Suppose thats thr price of progress, or maybe I live in the past. Eric

 

[Astonian]

HI Phil;
many thanks for those magic pictures and for my magic moments of nostalgal in my mind of memory
phil; i hope you are keeping well and i wish you all the the of health in 2012
Eric ; it does not do any harm to relive or even in in the past ;; you are not alone
nor do i like the moderen day of those streets to see how they redelevoped it with those building and i did not like the new registry office
over 12 months ago i went to brad street reg only to find they had moved i did not like it one bit ,
still thats progrss for you ; all the best eric for tenty twelve astonian;;