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SteveBhx
master brummie
Shame a lovely real ale pub happy to give a sample before buying your pint,
Stokkie
master brummie
A good mix of locals and students too in later years. My local in the last 10 years from work. Some good poetry and music in the upstairs room.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Another icon of Birmingham the cast iron gents ideally placed across the road from Eagle and Tun, Banbury Street, not sure when this disappeared - its not on the 2008 street view image, wonderful ironwork and I imagine a beacon for a drunk late at night. Note the Parcel Force depot over the wall something else long gone.
SteveBhx
master brummie
We now move away from Curzon Street are to somewhere else where I don't have the details - sure someone will recognise the modern house and the church in the distance
EDIT : Tinpot and Astoness said The Garrison in Garrison Lane been the white building in the distance - and a check sees Gordon Street before it was closed off on the left
EDIT : Tinpot and Astoness said The Garrison in Garrison Lane been the white building in the distance - and a check sees Gordon Street before it was closed off on the left
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steve the eagle and tun has been demolished...another victim of HS2..another broken promise from them to retain it
I think it is The Garrison with the school just beyond.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Thanks Lyn, not sure if the picture has disappeared, I was amending the post to say just that and I couldn't save the edit then managed to lose the photo - I will try another day.steve the eagle and tun has been demolished...another victim of HS2..another broken promise from them to retain it
i agree..the garrison..garrison lane
nice one steve and can i just say that most of these photographs that steve is posting were taken by my brothers friend who gave them to him..they were all on negatives and my brother not knowing what to do with them passed them to me i also did not have a clue how to get them off negatives and steve very kindly offered to collect them and have bash...very time consuming for steve however it did seem a shame not to see the many never seen before photos...
my brother has no objection to any of these photos being posted elsewhere or indeed used for publication in books so please feel free and thanks again steve
lyn
lmr3103
master brummie
That's a sad one for me. We lived in Gordon Street and the Acorn pub would be on the right of the photo, on the corner of Barwell Street. A pub beloved by my Dad for many years.
lmr3103
master brummie
We lived in the maisonettes until about 1974, and there didn't seem much wrong with them then. Sturdy enough, they were built after the Second World War I believe when there was a lot of bombing in the area.
lmr3103
master brummie
Yes I was just about to say that. The crossing is the one that lead from Gordon Street to the shops on Garrison Lane. I made many calls from that phone box back in the day when it was the old style box!
SteveBhx
master brummie
Thanks for that Lynn, I wondered how residents saw them and if there was a logical reason for their demolition - apparently not
SteveBhx
master brummie
The last picture I posted was of British Ropeworks in Garrison Street, we have now walked to the corner and are looking up the road - so what road is it? Railway embankment at the end but struggling with the location. Arched wall is on the left , Ropeworks is on the right Offers?
SteveBhx
master brummie
Another old pub but with a twist , This is Moby Dicks Penn Street and Gopsall Street , some may well know it a the Eagle and Ball which was it previous and future name, now part of the Birmingham City University building, and a long way from what it looked like previously. A bit of back history can be found at :- https://eagleandball.co.uk/heritage/
SteveBhx
master brummie
Next we move back towards Digbeth and have the Dolphin Transport cafe corner of Meriden Street and Coventry Street , previously a pub?
We can just make out the railway viaduct leading into Moor Street in the background. Not sure it would be on my list of locations to eat.
We can just make out the railway viaduct leading into Moor Street in the background. Not sure it would be on my list of locations to eat.
still there steve..i am sure it was a pub but cant remember the name of it
lyn
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ha ha mike that figures then thanks
Radiorails
master brummie
That is the abutment wall of a railway over-bridge in the left distance.
SteveBhx
master brummie
First tonight we are looking at the parcel force Curzon Street depot this is just round the corner and while a rather run down derelict building, is probably many years old and from the age of steam. Note the old boundary walls with similar brickwork and the chimney metal framed windows and the window ion the eaves too.
steve these photos that my brothers friend took are very important as many of the buildings will not exist now
lyn
SteveBhx
master brummie
Next I have a building which I assume is within the parcelforce site the building in the left with the overhang to cover goods vehicles , the buildings on the right covered in corrugated sheet iron, the old yard lamp and behind the lamp some buildings with the roof vents for ventilation.
SteveBhx
master brummie
As previously mentioned and only seen from a distance is the Woodman Pub, wonderful place and loads of history, currently still standing but for how much longer? Interestingly the windows on the ground floor are all set in arches with curved frames - on the first floor the windows are square and set within curved stonework. In this view it is set within the landscape but now sits alone in the wilderness.
