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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Moving now to Saltley we have Saltley School, now a quick look on this site has a selection of photos but these were 10 years ago

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Am I imagining things here? When I first read this forum some three weeks back, I'm sure I came across a reference to Michael O'Conner, however all trace of this thread has gone missing. Which is a shame because I did know a Michael O'Conner at Saltley. He would have attended from 1960 - 1965 or...
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I will add these photos here - if you dont want the duplication I am happy for them to be removed although the previous site does have more detail.
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SteveBhx said:
Moving away from the area is the Gothic Pub corner of Great Hampton Street and Great Hampton Row now restored to its former glory, I have included these two picture as while I have covered this location before I am not sure it was these images.

View attachment 186002View attachment 186003spent many a good hour or 10 in the gothic steve lol...ive got a pub token from there as well..nice little pub crawl around there back in the day...lord clifden..church tavern..gothic and the minerva...how i got home is anyones guess :D
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we now move onto Roll 42, this seems to have a system if rather loose we start at New John Street area move to near HP sauce, then snap some postcards and then have 8 go's at taking a shot of a picture we have already seen - so while there are 36 picture there will be well less than that.

So we start at the corner of Blews Street and New John Street, and this interesting bit of wall apart from the advert is one of the few unchanged part near here. Taken in March 1991 and looking towards Dartmouth Circus we see the single carriageway coming down the hill. Matalan fills the horizon here today.
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Next we turn around and look towards the Newtown Row junction. Here there are lots of cones , rubble and filled in holes in the road, and a single carriageway. Its hard to imagine todays amount of traffic managing on a single road. On the left you can just make out the curb and looking further ahead you can see how long this has been planned by the property line which is set back to front the soon to be built road.
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This general view of factories, industry and demolition is looking down Blews Street towards the city centre, love the two skips left in the road. The building on the left is still there but many shutters on the openings. The Pub is the Bulls Head - better picture later and in these days you could still see the Post and Mail building through the mist.
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SteveBhx said:
This general view of factories, industry and demolition is looking down Blews Street towards the city centre, love the two skips left in the road. The building on the left is still there but many shutters on the openings. The Pub is the Bulls Head - better picture later and in these days you could still see the Post and Mail building through the mist.
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steve if thats the bulls head i think it has to be pritchett st running accross...think the pub building is still there in some sort of guise..big pub as it goes right around pritchett st

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MWS said:
It's a nice building. Better to be used for something than demolished.
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I agree, I understand that it is a Grade A listed building, so they would struggle to get it demolished, although that doesn't always prevent a demolition...
 
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John L said:
The Ben Johnson has now become BRGRI on ground level (a purveyor of "premium smashed burgers" as well as the odd milk shake) and King Edward Apartments (12 "prestigious and luxurious" exclusive student rooms @ £150pw). Oh for the days and nights, when it was a jolly good pub! :rolleyes:

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i agree john...that is where you could find me on a friday night after first visiting the turks head just around the corner...happy days indeed dont think i could go in there now...it would ruin my memories

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Astoness said:
i agree john...that is where you could find me on a friday night after first visiting the turks head just around the corner...happy days indeed dont think i could go in there now...it would ruin my memories

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Two of my old haunts too Lyn, the Turks has totally gone now :(.
 
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yes john i pass there often and the turks head is no more...sad...what years were you going in there john?

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I went to the Ben from the mid 70s until it closed as a pub and to the Turks from the late 70s until it too closed down Lyn. I remember that the Burma Star Association used to hold their meetings at the Turks and that both pubs were an integral part of the Aston University students regular pub crawls, when students still did that sort of thing. I actually had my Stag Night at the Ben, there wasn't a milk shake drunk during that Thursday night.. :)
 
As we are reminiscing about watering holes, as previously mentioned by Astoness here is the Bulls Head, unusual upstairs windows arched above a square 4 pane window. Plenty of lamps to illuminate the name. Surprised at how much of an incline there is here , and the two square lamps above the doors too.
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On the other corner we have this demolition site - still Pritchett Street / Blews Street, like how the site is protected by the red and white tape, now replaced by units unfortunatly the demolition wiork carried on up the road so a lot owhat can be seen of the right hand side of the road is no longer there.
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Still spinning around the corner of Blews Street and Pritchett Street, we no are on the opposite corner to the Bull looking towards the city centre, lot of more modern industrial units, corner of Manchester Street on the right with The Globe pub and at the end of the road is a large building which is no longer there.
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The Globe was the first pub I went in for a drink and to play darts, me and three other lads all under age, 15 I think I was, and the only customers the pub had during weekday evenings, we all fell in love with the barmaid, she was probably three times our ages but we loved her.
 
aston lad said:
The Globe was the first pub I went in for a drink and to play darts, me and three other lads all under age, 15 I think I was, and the only customers the pub had during weekday evenings, we all fell in love with the barmaid, she was probably three times our ages but we loved her.
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same thing with our dad..in there to play darts..he taught me all i know about darts :)

lyn
 
we now move across the city to HP sauce or the roads around to be strictly correct corner of Stretton Road and Chester Street(?). I know roughly where I am but not the actual street name. ) All boarded up and under the shadow of the soon to disappear HP sauce factory. Old terraced house which there used to be many and which seems to be there sole reason for demolition.
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and the other end of Stretton Road where it joins Rocky Lane , Kullar Newsagent with its Evening Mail signs, a close look down the road shows a few closed shops and and a few boarded up properties so not long before demolition. Its these sights which are so sad to lose, traditional row of terraces with the corner shop.
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SteveBhx said:
we now move across the city to HP sauce or the roads around to be strictly correct corner of Stretton Road and Chester Street(?). I know roughly where I am but not the actual street name. ) All boarded up and under the shadow of the soon to disappear HP sauce factory. Old terraced house which there used to be many and which seems to be there sole reason for demolition.
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its looking up rocky lane steve..note the same zone sign in your 2nd photo which is looking down rocky lane

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i used to walk it from newtown passing HP sauce... down rocky lane passing tubes on my way to longacre where my sister lived...this was before demo...wished i had taken more notice back then because the area is unrecognisable now and oh so very dull ..boring and lifeless..totally eradicated what was once a wonderful community life and spirit:( todays view steve from chester st looking towards HP


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I did a "backstreet tour" of Newtown and Hockley on Saturday en-route to an appointment; so much is gone from when I was "brung up" as a kid round there but every so often you find bits that have survived - The Flats in Lodge Rd, the pub at the bottom of what is now called Unett St North, Brandaeurs in New John St West, bits of Hockley station and good yard, etc. At least the Parabellum model shop in Vyse St is still going strong!
 
We now move across to Tyseley station and view looking towards Solihull direction with the line from Moor Street splitting here , Locomotive approaching I think is 6024 King Edward I, taken in 1991 as is probably on one of its first Mail Line runs. The view today is broadly the same although the greenery has grown a lot.
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