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Hagley Road

carolina said:
Sorry these are not postcards so shall I delete them?
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Nice photos. Please don't delete them Carolina. If we can identify them I can easily move them, to the appropriate threads.

Help from members please with identifying images. #1901, 1902 and 1903. Thanks in advance. Viv.
 
#1902 in 1960s Anne Scott Hairdressers was at 191 Hagley Road, and West End Library was at 193 (both on previous map)
 
Thanks Mike. Now moved all the photos to this thread. Nice additions to this thread, thanks Carolina. Viv.
 
Yes they did Viv. Where it says 197 is where the door on the left hand side of Fogos is in streetview

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An impressive bus shelter around 1935 on the Hagley Road. Not sure if I’ve got the present day position right, but would the Kings Head pub be behind the photographer on the left and the clock (today) be just out of view on the right ?

Viv.

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Thanks Mike. Did wonder as the curve of the road looks wrong and wondered if road widening had altered the road, adding to my confusion ! Viv.
 
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Vivienne14 said:
An impressive bus shelter around 1935 on the Hagley Road. Not sure if I’ve got the present day position right, but would the Kings Head pub be behind the photographer on the left and the clock (today) be just out of view on the right ?

Viv.

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This is Hagley Road West. The Kings Head pub is off shot to the right. Your present day picture is facing the opposite direction. The bus shelter was on the edge of the modern photo roughly where you can see the pedestrian crossing. The present bus shelters are in the distance under the dark green trees that you can see on the left edge of the modern photo. In fact you can see the first shelter just above the roof of the small white van. The clock used to be outside the Kings Head but Birmingham moved it so it spent years on the junction of High Street and Union Street but in the end Sandwell Council did a deal that they would not charge Birmingham for some work they did using Sandwell land if the clock was returned to Bearwood which is why it is now on the Sandwell side of the road.

The regular BCT bus on this route was the no. 9 to Quinton but the bus you see is actually on route 34 which ran cross city from Kingstanding to Quinton. This route no longer runs but in the end it was a rush hours only service but very useful to me in my student days as I could get it to and from Gosta Green.
 
I lived in Bearwood, Viv and don't remember this. A postcard seller suggests that F Roberts building was demolished in 1960, so I could have seen it as a child.
My guess is that it was by Stirling Road. (I was wrong, this was at the Tricorn House site!)

Derek
 
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My parents lived on Hagley Road, for a while in 64, and when on leave would drink in the Ivy Bush pub, and I thought that the building was still there, but cannot be sure, I came back in 2003 when my dear Mom passed away, and stayed at the Thistle Hotel, and I think that was built on the old nuns convent, could be wrong though!!!
 
Tricorn House was built in 1976 - and refurbished is still there. I think there have been more than one set of Edgbaston Assembly Rooms after the building posted by Viv.
 
Elizabeth Crawford's blog Woman and Her Sphere says that Edgbaston Assembly Rooms were used by the Women's Social and Political Union for suffrage meetings:
'By the end of October 1908 Gladice Keevil had opened a WSPU office in Birmingham at 14 Ethel Street, which was to act as the headquarters for the Midlands. Evening At Homes were held there at 7.30 on Tuesdays, presumably attracting women who were working during the day, while afternoon

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Edgbaston Assembly Rooms
meetings were held for the leisured at the Edgbaston Assembly Rooms. Working closely with Gladice Keevil at this time was Bertha Ryland, the daughter of Mrs Alice Ryland, of 19 Hermitage Road...'
 
The building would have played an important part in meetings and discussions about the Suffragette movement. I expect the authorities kept a close eye on it.

Gladice went on to be arrested along with Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertha slashed a painting in protest - presumably at Bham gallery as the plaque below is placed in the Round Room at the gallery.

Stokkie, shall copy your post to the Suffragette thread too. Viv.
 

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