OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

[mikejee]

I only remember entering the market from the Bull Ring but that was after 1950. Was there an entrance at both ends of the market originally?

Both those photos are from the Worcester St end. However the second one is post the bombing, as can be seen from there being no roof. . However some photos show that end wall missing (below), so at some time it must have been demolished before the eventual destruction of the building. Does anyone know when?

 

[lmr3103]

Roll 48 is the last of the current " processed images" I will have to go and crop and tidy a few more rolls but may process then post so there is not such a long wait - but don't worry we are not running out at a rough count there are another 70 rolls to process!! ( but expect a lot of duplicates and rubbish)
Talking of which half of Roll 48 is taken up with images like this, a page in an album propped up and a picture taken. These are all duplicated and have been posted and fortunately better and more cropped images were taken . Not sure why they were taken as later on this roll were picture from 1991 so why go back and retake images you have already done?

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Steve, thank you for all the time you spend preparing these photos for the Forum. I love looking at them, and really appreciate the effort you make.

 

[Fashionz]

Next we move to Roll 10 - this is another roll with a shortage of images - the first half are photos from a calendar that has had pictures cut out - not very good the first real image is the corner of Adderley Street and Ash road and we have the Adderley Park pub, white brick building pretty original in layout although looking rather run down today but with many feature remaining

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There's a tunnel from that pub, that goes under the road, across to my Aunty's house, No. 6 Ash Road, (No. 6 was knocked down to build a mosque). We were never allowed in the cellar as kids, but, we did one day sneak down there and found the locked entrance to the pub, a door with frosted glass engraved with a pub sign and on the floor a Johnny Walker statue, which was a bit ironic as my Aunty ran The Tempreance Society.