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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Next we are looking straight down Cambridge Street Tower Blocks on the right, ICC on the left and ahead we have a number of cranes and not much else - The Indoor Arena ( currently known as Utilita Arena) has just started to be built and another step in the changes to the city centre and it national image is starting to be made - from a few car parks to the start of the Broad Street entertainment zone its surprising how quickly ( in reality ) this has taken.

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We now look across Broad Street towards the Hyatt Hotel, to the right of the Hyatt not much has changed modern office blocks but to the left the view off in to the distance has disappeared completely, from the left we have the former Bank , now The Exchange and to the right of that is currently empty land which in this picture is the House of Sport , Behind them is where all the changes have been made we have Arena Cenral , Crown Plaze Hotel, Centenary Plaze apartments and completing the view block is The Cube on the waterfront by the Mailbox - quite a transformation - would someone like to pop up to the top of the car park and repeat the photo?

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SteveBhx said:
We now look across Broad Street towards the Hyatt Hotel, to the right of the Hyatt not much has changed modern office blocks but to the left the view off in to the distance has disappeared completely, from the left we have the former Bank , now The Exchange and to the right of that is currently empty land which in this picture is the House of Sport , Behind them is where all the changes have been made we have Arena Cenral , Crown Plaze Hotel, Centenary Plaze apartments and completing the view block is The Cube on the waterfront by the Mailbox - quite a transformation - would someone like to pop up to the top of the car park and repeat the photo?

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Trident House in the background my home on the 15th floor in the 90s
 
Eric Gibson said:
I think those days when they all had their own clothes were better than when they were all forced to wear uniform, no individuality now.
I pity though the one lad wearing specs, I bet he was 'four eyes' to some of the other lads.
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I doubt very much their parents' ability to afford uniforms - some of their clothes are hardly of the best quality, and probably hand-me-downs too.
Such hardships can be the driving force to make some kids into prosperous adults.
 
SteveBhx said:
Finally am I right in thinking these photos were not taken from the current car park but the funny angled one that was there previously? I only ask as this photo seems to show how the car park used to look all shapes and angles and not the boring flat box that is there now

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Wasn't this the one where each floor sloped down to ground level? Also the one where another, to the same design, collapsed in Wolverhampton which condemned this one very soon after?
 
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Last couple of pictures off this roll and we have moved out of the city centre - this is titled church at Six Ways Aston taken on the 7th September 1989 , fine church, unfortunaly it been six ways there are lampposts everywhere. Fine brickwork, windows and steeple

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building on the far right demolished 2017/18

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Okay so we now move onto Roll 12, which I think we will only get a couple of images out of, there are a lot of poor pictures of postcards and I am sure you have seen these postcards before. It gives an idea of the variety and quality of the images we have .

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SteveBhx said:
and finally on this roll something a bit different described as an old air raid shelter in Long Acre off Austin Street. A rather substantial structure at the rear of Bristol Street Motors, again this was taken in 1989 so over 40 years old
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While bricks on corner for blackouts there be a blast wall inside that doorway plus anti collapse steel supports lnside iv converted a couple of these in the past
 
Finally on this Roll ( said there was a lot of rubbish!) this is The Speedwell, on Stockfield Road - taken in December 1989, another large scale M&B pub which seems to be boarded up on the ground floor although the first floor windows seem to be intact at that time. Has all the various pub signs large name across the front of the building , plenty of M&B and Mitchell and Butler signage as well as the pub sign on the left.

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Roll 12 + another poor roll only this picturea lthough is very interesting
HMS Aston Villa was an anti submarine trawler in The Royal Navy so strictly HMT Aston Villa , it had a very short naval career - taken from https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/6304.html

History
Completed on 4 September 1937.
Taken over by the Admiralty on 29 September 1939.
Displacement: 546 tons.
Lenght: 174 feet.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

HMT Aston Villa (Cdr.(retired) Sir Geoffrey Cecil Congreve, RN) was heavily damaged on 30 April 1940 by German dive bombers in Kroken Bay near Namsos, Norway.
Scuttled on 3 May 1940.

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SteveBhx said:
We now look across Broad Street towards the Hyatt Hotel, to the right of the Hyatt not much has changed modern office blocks but to the left the view off in to the distance has disappeared completely, from the left we have the former Bank , now The Exchange and to the right of that is currently empty land which in this picture is the House of Sport , Behind them is where all the changes have been made we have Arena Cenral , Crown Plaze Hotel, Centenary Plaze apartments and completing the view block is The Cube on the waterfront by the Mailbox - quite a transformation - would someone like to pop up to the top of the car park and repeat the photo?

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thanks steve...as most of us know the library now sits on the ground of that car park...before that it was the site of winfield brass company..some may recall that before the library was built there was an archaeological dig and i went to visit the site quite a few times to have a look at how the dig was progressing...with permission i came away with some of the old blue bricks :D
 
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