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Icknield Street
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Sure I remember the 'New Rimini' Cafe,I used to pass that way to visit my dad at his work in Constitution hill.
Can anyone confirm it was called that back in about 1983/4 time please...or is it just my imagination?
maggs
master brummie
So was I lyn, do you remember it had stalmites dripping. I used to run through afraid of being dripped on, or a train going over.
Alf
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
The Car or what Reg
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Mossy
Guest
Does any body know what that building was on top of the bridge i must have passed under it a thousand times and never gave it a thought until just
Mossy
Mossy
Key Hill Brian
Proud Brummie
I think the buildings Mossy is on about are part of the Railway depot. They had buildings to the left & right as you view the bridge. It's part of a trading estate now.
Brian
Brian
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Mossy
Guest
Thank you Brian
Mossy
Mossy
Key Hill Brian
Proud Brummie
Mossy, have a look at https://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/hockley.php
He has some pictures of Hockley Goods depot. If you have the old 1908'ish Ordnance Survey map for Winson Green that they sell at Smiths, etc, you can see the scale of the depot. It was quite a large set up.
Brian
He has some pictures of Hockley Goods depot. If you have the old 1908'ish Ordnance Survey map for Winson Green that they sell at Smiths, etc, you can see the scale of the depot. It was quite a large set up.
Brian
Aidan
master brummie
Profuse apologies proffered - I was not trying to make a religious point - merely trying to offer the alternative view to the previous posts that the Qu'ran (and by extention call to prayer) is widely held to be poetry of the highest form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qur'an#Arab_writing and influenced many branches of the arts over the centuries (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's sufi inspired Qawwal songs such as Allah Hoo eg at Small Heath Park in 1989 https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4002924226524948790# comes to mind).
Agree that loudspeakers are not only cheating but very unfriendly to the neighbourhood - lets hope that sense prevails and they are not part of the design
Agree that loudspeakers are not only cheating but very unfriendly to the neighbourhood - lets hope that sense prevails and they are not part of the design
HI JOHN AND KENH
many thanks for the input of he pics of the ickneild st blocks as i have great memories of that stretch
from my childhood days i myself like john was completely shocked to see the disapearing mint that had to b part of our birminham hearitage surely and along with the shops that have part renovated for what purpose i asked myself
why did they not do the rest of them ?. , may be just to smartn up the corner may be .
but ajoing those on the picture would have been very benifictional if they had restoed the very old little post office that was there from the dark ages it could have been profitable for them to have kept it in more ways than one
and still serve the commutity around at least from the local offices and the tennants from ajoing spring hill
and part of th higestion street and part left brook field commutity
at the end of that block was a car repair and sales guy which was on the corner , i knew the gentlemam concerned
he had a thriving bussiness and if my memory serves me correctly it was around 1969-70
when the council decided to slapp a conpulsury order on him o move out for a slum clearance order
and he had to move to the bottom end of trinty rd perry barr just by the traffic lightsof perry barr just under the fly over well that was way back them , and the property is still standing . why ?.
along with the rest of them even the old rimmell cafe that was next door or should i say a couple
of yrds from the stoddards butchers and slaghter house
as some one just mentioned about the corner cafe facing stoddards that was a very thriving good cafe chop ablock all day the windows was more or less steamed up all day long and brillent sarnies
that was also the very first to go beforethe car sales and it was a year or two before it in fact
and some one pointed out about theres always a fire in these old buiding the ones with history
well why .and how come , i know of another old building that was over the hundred yeas old
on the tyburn rd afew years ago that was set upon fire whilst delect and they demolished it
but it was empty for years years despite some-one put a new roof on it and left it empty for donkeys years
so i think questioneds should be asked or should i say at least food for thought
why are they being left for donkey years and falling into a bad state of affairs
to see these shopsin ickneild st being allowed to crumble
why start in twenty years or more clearing out these shops early than the planned bull dozer moving in
if they decided they gonna buld yuppie flats for the proffessionals i think they will fall flat on there faces
as you all know the jewerly quarter as failed to fill those they built there
but i say why did they not keep and renovated the old post office on ickneild street and why
most of all demolishened the mint our hearitage it was part of the jewerly quarterand it backed on to warstone lane
have a nice day every body best wishes Astonian ;;;
many thanks for the input of he pics of the ickneild st blocks as i have great memories of that stretch
from my childhood days i myself like john was completely shocked to see the disapearing mint that had to b part of our birminham hearitage surely and along with the shops that have part renovated for what purpose i asked myself
why did they not do the rest of them ?. , may be just to smartn up the corner may be .
but ajoing those on the picture would have been very benifictional if they had restoed the very old little post office that was there from the dark ages it could have been profitable for them to have kept it in more ways than one
and still serve the commutity around at least from the local offices and the tennants from ajoing spring hill
and part of th higestion street and part left brook field commutity
at the end of that block was a car repair and sales guy which was on the corner , i knew the gentlemam concerned
he had a thriving bussiness and if my memory serves me correctly it was around 1969-70
when the council decided to slapp a conpulsury order on him o move out for a slum clearance order
and he had to move to the bottom end of trinty rd perry barr just by the traffic lightsof perry barr just under the fly over well that was way back them , and the property is still standing . why ?.
along with the rest of them even the old rimmell cafe that was next door or should i say a couple
of yrds from the stoddards butchers and slaghter house
as some one just mentioned about the corner cafe facing stoddards that was a very thriving good cafe chop ablock all day the windows was more or less steamed up all day long and brillent sarnies
that was also the very first to go beforethe car sales and it was a year or two before it in fact
and some one pointed out about theres always a fire in these old buiding the ones with history
well why .and how come , i know of another old building that was over the hundred yeas old
on the tyburn rd afew years ago that was set upon fire whilst delect and they demolished it
but it was empty for years years despite some-one put a new roof on it and left it empty for donkeys years
so i think questioneds should be asked or should i say at least food for thought
why are they being left for donkey years and falling into a bad state of affairs
to see these shopsin ickneild st being allowed to crumble
why start in twenty years or more clearing out these shops early than the planned bull dozer moving in
if they decided they gonna buld yuppie flats for the proffessionals i think they will fall flat on there faces
as you all know the jewerly quarter as failed to fill those they built there
but i say why did they not keep and renovated the old post office on ickneild street and why
most of all demolishened the mint our hearitage it was part of the jewerly quarterand it backed on to warstone lane
have a nice day every body best wishes Astonian ;;;
Someone wanted an image of the Rimini Cafe?View attachment 50101