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New Street Station From 1854 - 1966

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This is picture of The City Birmingham Holiday Express take Monday 29th July 1957 at 09.57 Platform 3 New Street Station Rhyl/Colwyn Bay/Llandudno.

Four of the days Rhyl/Colwyn Bay/Llandudno, London, Matlock/Buxton,& Brighton was the Friday.

I think it cost £5.00 for the week.

On the FRiday trip to Brighton I met a girl who asked if I would tune into the Platters on the journey home which I did.

I dated her and married her Feb 1959 and we are still together 53 years later.

We had good weather the whole week
 
What a great story NEVILLE thanks for posting, me personally did't get to see the sea so to speak till after my 15th birthday when I travelled to Rhyl and stay 2 days took all I had earned for 1 mth but it was great.
paul
 
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Not strictly the correct thread for these but I only have the two. The first is New Street Station in 1904 and the second one merely says "passing Cadbury's".
 
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Would this photo of a Scrab taken in Queen St ?? i remember seeing these Vehecles buzzing around Lawley St .
I also wondered wether you had to have a full driving licence to drive them .
ragga :courage:
 
Don't know if this 2008 extract from the Sunday Mercury archives is true:

"Arthur Smith, author of "Haunted Birmingham" ................... found out something very interesting about the original station. The site the builders chose had one "minor" obstacle - a Jewish cemetery. This didn't actually bother them too much. They demolished the cemetery and got on with constructing their great Victorian station."
 
Viv
There was a jewish synagogue in the Froggery, which is now under New St station. I do not know if there was also a cemetery there.
 
"In The Midst of Life" by Joseph McKenna says that there was a Jewish burial ground opened at The Froggery in early 18C.
All bodies removed to the Jewish Burial Ground at Chequers Walk. This was land off Granville Street including two cottages, which fell into disuse about 1825 but was used for the reburials about 1840s. This Ground was closed by order of the Corporation in 1873, the remains were the then transferred to Witton!!!
rosie.
 
Thanks Mike and Rosie. Just had a look at Westley's 1731 map and I can see the Froggery & chapel building - pretty big. This map has been posted on various threads before but posting it again here in case anyone wants to see the area we're referring to pre - New St station. Viv.

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Hi Mike - the area enclosed by the Froggery/Peck Lane/ Colmore St. Or is that gardens? Help! Rubbish with maps. Viv.
 
Hi Viv, in my day the Post Office had a MT workshop near the synagogue on Singers Hill, dont think there was a graveyard there, Bernard
 
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Photo 1 .... love to know the history of the milkman on New St station , would he had been meeting the milk train off platform 12 ??
Photo 2 .... was that little boy you on platform ??....... love to know that too .
ragga :unconscious:
 
The schoolboy has an emblem on the cap=belonging to some private school in the area? I would imagine those trunks and heavy suitcases on the wagon are his. Quite a posh school I would think looking at the material. At my institution all we had were the black gaberdine(?) which would get heavy as h*ll in the rain and the belt got all knotted!
 
That "wagon train" in photo 2 is really interesting, the leading "vehicle" is obviously battery electric operated with a platform for the driver and a tiller to steer. As it's carrying number 9 it's probably safe to assume there were at least 8 others. It would be interesting to know more of its history.

Simon
 
Two fantastic photos Ragga! Makes you realise how time's moved on. Milk churns and the horse drawn milk float, packages tied with string, steam trains, signals that moved up and down and made a clanking noise ...... the photo with the schoolboy looks quite wistful. I wonder if he was arriving or departing for boarding school? Enjoyed these two photos very much. Thanks Ragga. Viv.
 
Would be interesting if anyone has photos of the Mail being moved along the platforms, there was an underground tunnel from the Sorting Office and the amount of Mail must have colossal. Bernard
 
6918 said:
That "wagon train" in photo 2 is really interesting, the leading "vehicle" is obviously battery electric operated with a platform for the driver and a tiller to steer. As it's carrying number 9 it's probably safe to assume there were at least 8 others. It would be interesting to know more of its history.

Simon
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no one mentioned the bikes in transit, our early GPO bikes were made by the Coop, Bernard
 
Yes Dave, I believe thats where they were made, didnt do any cycle
duties in Brum but when I transfered to Burton on Trent in 1957 all
the second deliveries were done on bikes, I must have been fit in those faroff days, Bernard
 
Great pictures but do you have any more please & can any of you old New St spotters remember the date when a Bitannia Class & a Clan Class were side by side, one of them was on the 'Glasgow' & the other in the bay platform next to it.
 
Hi Ragga.

If it helps 70021 Morning Star was built 03/08/1951, withdrawn from service 30/12/1967, Disposal on 25/04/1968, last working sher Carlisle Kingsmoor.

Great pictures

Ray
 
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