New Street Station From 1854 - 1966

[Pedrocut]

hi just doing a bit of research and i wonder if anyone can confirm that apart from the froggery was the station also built on a jewish burial ground...thanks folks for any help given

lyn

Birmingham’s first Jewish cemetery, Colmore Row Jewish burial Ground. (1730s-1740s)
Near Colmore Row/Little Colmore Street and was close to where NS. was constructed.

LNWR encountered burial ground during construction, bodies exhumed and reinterred at Granville Street.

Platforms 4-6 closest to original burial site.

 

[Vivienne14]

Behind the scenes catering services at the station. Not the best reproduced images but it they give some idea of the scale and range of the operation to service two cafeteria, two refreshment rooms and a dining room.




Source; British Newspaper Archive

 

[mikejee]

An interesting view across the roof of the old station in the early 1960s

 

[Richard Dye]

An interesting view across the roof of the old station in the early 1960s

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That is an interesting view, something I have never seen before.

 

[Lloyd]

An interesting view across the roof of the old station in the early 1960s

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Looking from the Gueens Hotel building.

 

[mw0njm.]

CAFETERIA, BAR & WAITING ROOM, NEW STREET STATION
Closing for the last time…(1965)

 

[Vivienne14]

And this would most certainly have been a well-earned rest. It was just after heavy raids on Birmingham from 9-11 April. The people waiting for the train must have been exhausted after nights spent in air raid shelters and no end to the war in sight.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Another great early picture from photographer Henry Joseph Whitlock .... New Street Station dated c1865.
It was taken from the east end of Platform 2, looking towards the central footbridge. In the foreground is a signal post, and the policeman who was responsible for controlling it. At this time, passenger luggage was stored on the carriage roof .... as can be seen on some of the carriages.
Credit: Richard Foster's book "Birmingham New Street Volume 2".