Newhall Street

[Vivienne14]

Newhall Street Meeting House.

Quite a number of buildings from the 1800s in the street seem to have had many steps up to their entrances. Wonder why ?



A drawing of Newhall Street by a member of the Lines family,

 

[Richard Dye]

Newhall Street Meeting House.

Quite a number of buildings from the 1800s in the street seem to have had many steps up to their entrances. Wonder why ?

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A drawing of Newhall Street by a member of the Lines family, View attachment 209041

Not sure but it could be for full working basement/cellar or potentially a high water table?

 

[mikejee]

This has been posted before somewhere on the site, but not on this thread. Don't know exactly in Newhall Street where this was located, nor do I have a date. Guessing it's about 1890s.

And a couple of sketches of Newhall Street doorways - #15 and #9 - by F Chamberlain. Maybe they're somewhere in the distance in the photo ? They're unusual in that the two entrances are close together with no street level windows.
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Teh building with the steps is the old Dental hospital, which was on the corner of Gt charles St

 

[lmr3103]

Some of the photos are on this thread……

Dentistry past and present in Brum​

 

[lmr3103]

Thread 'Dentistry past and present in Brum'

Nov 10, 2014

Given the unbridled joy and enthusiasm we all have for a visit to the Dentist, I thought I might investigate who started this legalised form of torture….and found this speech on the history of dentistry in Brum, given in 1945 by a graduate Dentist, to an assembly of distinguished Dental Surgeons in Brum, at the Dental Hospital, back of the old General….

Ronald Cohen speech from 1945:

The first dental practitioner in Birmingham that can be traced is one Robert Law, who lived near the White Hart in Digbeth in 1741. He made “artificial teeth to the greatest perfection, so...

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