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H E Jordan Station Hotel Market Hotel Station Street Dudley Street

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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Can anyone confirm if H E Jordan, Proprietor of Jordan's Station Hotel, Jordan's Kensington Dining Rooms and the wicker basket wholesale manufacturer in Station Street, is the same person ?
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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
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Geoff your insurance map in post #2 is interesting in relation to the Crown, Station Street thread. Shall copy your post to that thread. Thanks for posting.
 
An advert in 1929 announces enlarging the Hotel to provide an assembly room. Mr Havens was Hotel Manager. And in 1943 a move to include slogans in their advertising.

According to Historic England :

"By the time of the 1937 Goad plan, the warehouse section of the building on its western side has been incorporated into the hotel. The presence of an early-C20 stair in what is now (2024) the reception of the hotel would suggest that this happened early in the century, understood to be after 1913. This conversion also involved the replacement of the timber street frontage to the warehouse with the present stone and brick frontage. In the late-C20 a number of windows across the building were replaced"

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Great photo. Must be pre-1913, as the Repertory Theatre was built into the gap in the buildings where the hotel signs are painted in 1912/13.

It's quite odd to me that there was, what I'd call, a proper station entrance on this side of New Street Station in the past. Never seemed like that to me when I used it (1970s/80s), although, of course, you could access the station from this side. No wonder Station Street seems to have been relegated to a city centre road of little importance in more recent times. It has so much to offer in terms of Birmingham history, from its original link and dependency on the early (Central) New Street Station, to its 1900s entertainment history, carrying through to the 1960s- 2000s with its music history. So much of interest in one small street.

Thank goodness quite a number of buildings haven't been replaced and what a cross section of architecture they present. Something to be valued and preserved, when so many 21st century buildings have, literally, overshadowed the street.
 
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I thought the entrance further down might be for passengers, opposite the Hotel. There looks to be a domed canopy/walkway leading into the station. Could be wrong, but maybe it's on a map somewhere?
 
Yeas. Looks like in 1886 it was the entrance to the south side of the station. the other entrance , at that time was by the fish sidings

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Seem to remember going down those steps to go to Silver Blades rink on Pershore Street. We didn't always go that way, so I'm not sure why we went via the steps.
 
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