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Hamstead Road Handsworth

Hamstead Road, Handsworth, near Birmingham. 1897. G. Thompson junior.
View of old house and barns at Hamstead Hill showing corner of Somerset Road.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

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Hamstead Road, Handsworth, near Birmingham creator: G. Thompson junior c1897.
View of backs of old cottages and barns at Hamstead Hill near Somerset Road.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

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This is in my memory, when I was 13 I worked Saturdays on a Bradford's bread round, I recall taking a loaf to the top floor for a blind lady, she tipped me with a penny said "It's not much but they all add up."
 

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A Sparks said:
Yes!
The building doesn't look in very good condition does it, not with those exposed roof beams at the left side of the house in the picture, possibly some sort of outbuildings.
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only just noticed but i think photo on post 32 and 34 are of the same buildings..post 32 gives us more of the location..
 
I was just saying here back in the 60's I travelled up and down the Hamstead Road from the ivy Bush to a job in Walsall and I never knew there was so much history to it . Looking at the pictures here , one thing I am surprised thats not here picture 3 a couple of houses before you get to the black and white building in the 70/80's there used to be a complete house front standing completely on it's own merits no sides, no scaffolding, or anything alway's amazed me how it didnt fall . I wonder if anyone else saw it ?
 
I’m getting a bit mixed up. This was the other picture.
It seems the same position but the workman is standing by the horse !

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