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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Next we have crossed the Queensway from Moor Street - looking rather different from today and we are at New Meeting Street, this is St Michael Catholic Church (more details https://www.catholic-historic-churches.org.uk/churches/213?committee=4) , the wall to the left is Carrs Lane Church and to the right are the flyovers and underpasses that made for Birmingham in the 1970's. The blue plaque commemorates Joseph Priestley.

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We have two negative sheets with number 127, sheet 127A has an information list 127B doesn't - this is 127B - while most of the buildings are recognisable and a route can be found some of them I don't know the location but I am sure you will fill in the gaps.
First up we have Moor Street Station, looking rather sorry, gates are shut and there is a bit of graffiti on the windows. The WM logo is below the British Rail arrows, which may help date it. Note also the lack of traffic and the two modern telephone boxes on the left.

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Been to Stratford Upon Avon from here a few times a delightful little station
 
The next image is the first that I cannot identify, although I feel we are in the Jewellery Quarter but as that has changed so much I cannot find it .
Love the metal framed arch windows, and the same for the building next door before we have more modern building at the end of the road. Nice Ford escort.
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Next we have a corner of two roads, both of which have no road signs naming them,( See A Sparks reply below Thankyou ) Castrite were at 13 - 15 Caroline Street and the other road was Northwood Street the property on the corner seems to have a host of styles from arched windows and cornices to sash windows and a round window in the gable end. the road slopes down and the building step down to reflect that, although in the background the buildings seem to be more modern. To see the location on streetview is amazing and shows how fashionable the area has become
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Next we have a corner of two roads, both of which have no road name on them, the property on the corner seems to have a host of styles from arched windows and cornices to sash windows and a round window in the gable end. the road slopes down and the building step down to reflect that, although in the background the buildings seem to be more modern.
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Castrite were at 13 - 15 Caroline Street.
 
Finally tonight somewhere I have found although it is not recognisable today . This the Brown Lion Hall Street, a pub in the jewellery Quarter , over three floors, next door with its arched windows and pillared entrance - with what looks like a walled piece of land next to it - today we have a nail bar and a Jamaican Restaurant, with buildings on the walled piece of land just past Branston Street.
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First tonight we have The Pickering and Mayell Limited Reliance Works on the corner of Kenyon Street and Caroline Street, Looking a the front we have a traditional building three floors sash windows with iron railings and a nice front door, however if you look at the side view it seems they bought a job lot of windows, all different sizes and shapes. I like the sign writing around the top of the building, which is all in place even today.
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We now move across city to Gas Street basin and the James Brindley Pub, spent many a happy lunchtime there, now called "The Canal House" this picture seems to have been taken when the jazz festival was on judging by the band playing. The start of the tidying up of the area but with a long way to go.
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As I said previously a long way to go and this can be seen as we have turned slightly to the right - the end of the canal is where the Mailbox is today, and much of the land and buildings to the left have been redeveloped, the Wharf which is now part of the site says 1989 on the front so that fixes the time somewhat. The canal towpath looks quite narrow at this point also.
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Heading towards Brindley Place we come to the site of the ICC, presumably this is where Bingley Hall used to be and shows what it was and how it all started. In the background can be seen the flats in Cambridge Street and is that the Prince of Wales pub to the left of the crane?
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Now we have the location sorted and the route we are taking, we now move to the Brewmasters house now part of the ICC complex but back then a rather forlorn building on the canal side, a close look see many of the feature in this area still there - we can see the bridge over the canal and under that the bridges in front of the Indoor arena.
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Hi all, not 100% sure this is right place to post this, but it does have some old photographs and is a great piece on the attempts to save Birmingham's post war brutalist architecture. Please let me know if this should be posted elsewhere.

www.theguardian.com

‘If the Ringway goes, I’m leaving’ – the fight to save Birmingham’s brutiful masterpieces

When Clint Eastwood posed by the glorious Ringway in the 1960s, the city boasted superb buildings aplenty. As yet more face the wrecking ball, we meet the people hitting back
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Pete.
 
We have now turned around and headed back through Gas Street and look across towards where the Premier Inn is today. What a sorry sight it presents - derelict buildings, dumped cars and the multi Storey car park - today we have apartments, tall building clad in geometric patterns and the building in the centre is still there although there is a sign saying No.19 coming soon - we shall see
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SteveBhx said:
We now move across city to Gas Street basin and the James Brindley Pub, spent many a happy lunchtime there, now called "The Canal House" this picture seems to have been taken when the jazz festival was on judging by the band playing. The start of the tidying up of the area but with a long way to go.
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Steve if I could steal your thunder for a moment , I was at a jazz session one Sunday afternoon there was a well known midlands trumpet player there John something . There he was blowing his heart out god bless hime when all of a sudden from nowhere a young man came and stood in his eyeline shovelling a cheese cob down his neck . John finished the number and just said politely "just what I needed" I nearly fell over laughing
 
Continuing along the canal towpath and we are now standing on Holliday Street aqueduct , as I have said, on this roll I have no date information, but at first glance it could be any time in the last 50 years!! Firstly no traffic so I presume a Sunday, but when it is compared to today that open vista on the left has been lost and there are a line of new buildings on the right. This view has a more industrial feeling to it


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The registry office, which would now be on the left of the photo,was handed over to the council in 2005. No sign of it here.
 
That white (hexagonal?) bollard is still there on the corner of Berkley Street ! Sorry doesn't help with date.
Viv
 

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From the next picture we can conclude that the photographer had a car or came back next day, we are now on the corner of Staniforth Street and what is now Aston Expressway Way, and we have the Ben Johnson pub, three floors of a variety of architectural styles. The fine pub lettering around the front and continuing down the sides. The clock tower with 1905, the eaves and the fine square globes above the door.

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From the next picture we can conclude that the photographer had a car or came back next day, we are now on the corner of Staniforth Street and what is now Aston Expressway Way, and we have the Ben Johnson pub, three floors of a variety of architectural styles. The fine pub lettering around the front and continuing down the sides. The clock tower with 1905, the eaves and the fine square globes above the door.

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The actual name of this pub is The King Edward VII Inn, it is written above the clock, and it's interior all mock-beamed and rough-plasterworked as 'The Ben Jonson'
This photo taken by ellbrown and sent to forum 2019, with the new student blocks behind it from Aston University.

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From the next picture we can conclude that the photographer had a car or came back next day, we are now on the corner of Staniforth Street and what is now Aston Expressway Way, and we have the Ben Johnson pub, three floors of a variety of architectural styles. The fine pub lettering around the front and continuing down the sides. The clock tower with 1905, the eaves and the fine square globes above the door.

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Does anyone else remember getting a passport from the offices, with the arches, just beyond KEVII Could have been in 1950's.
 
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