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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Good morning -Moving onto roll 25, and only three picture that are new on this roll everything else are copies off roll 23 and 24.
To start we have the Crown Pub corner of Broad Street and King Edwards Place, the first picture is taken in the 1920's, large factory building at the rear, number of staff out on the pavement, ladders up at the windows cleaning in progress. Crown Inn established 1781, so a pub has been on the site for many years.

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we now move onto 1930's there have been a number of changes , the brickwork has been plastered over and there is new large lamp on the corner. There are a number of window styles on the frontage and the building is much large than it is today. Hard to imaging that a walk down King Edwards Place would lead to the Convention Centre, much where the building at the rear is today.

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We now move onto the 1940 and the build much as it is today, light coloured wall, balustrades around the roof line, and frontage which has not only had the windows changed to match the others but the building is smaller in size too. It looks like the building at the rear has disappeared, I don't think it has been blocked out. This is pretty much how the building looks today

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We now move onto Roll 26 First in this series of older picture is what is titled as Lodge Tyre Company , Great Lister Street, I don't have a year for the picture, but this is an amazing vista over the city, lorries in the foreground, terraced house sitting side by side with factories and in the background the various spires from churches of the area.

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Next we have an interesting picture from a Co Operative shop. I have no location but over the door it seems to say Branch 12 (?). 6 Staff stood outside in their long white coveralls, wide selection of goods on display in the window, and a couple of intersting sign - first No Entrance fee and second says Dividend


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Our next image is pretty much as it comes - all my information is from the picture E.F. Edwards, Ltd. Funeral Directors, I have no location , and the picture as usual is a photo of a photo hence the lack of pavement and the slightly skewed image- this is how it was taken. Large etched glass signs in the windows acting as advert and privacy for the interior. Two large lamps outside the front and a single bay window upstairs.
EDIT: In 1963 Edwards changed address from Great Lister Street to 31 Gravelly Hill North. Thanks Pedrocut.

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SteveBhx said:
Next we have an interesting picture from a Co Operative shop. I have no location but over the door it seems to say Branch 12 (?). 6 Staff stood outside in their long white coveralls, wide selection of goods on display in the window, and a couple of intersting sign - first No Entrance fee and second says Dividend


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If we could make out the branch number it may help with the location.
 
Next I have included this more as a talking point - I have this as an " Old House" large two storey, double fronted house, with buildings to the side sitting in quite open grounds. To the left and further back is an interesting building which may be known to someone, a school, church building etc, with twin peaked rooms and a tower / turret on top, again no year.
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SteveBhx said:
Our next image is pretty much as it comes - all my information is from the picture E.F. Edwards, Ltd. Funeral Directors, I have no location , and the picture as usual is a photo of a photo hence the lack of pavement and the slightly skewed image- this is how it was taken. Large etched glass signs in the windows acting as advert and privacy for the interior. Two large lamps outside the front and a single bay window upstairs.

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In 1963 Edwards changed address from Great Lister Street to 31 Gravelly Hill North.
 
This picture is titled Old Pub bomb, High Street Saltley 1945, I am assuming this is a war time bomb, dropped on the area, people standing on the flattened remains of a building although the walls at the rear look intact and the front wall of a pub type building to the front right. Is there any more information?

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A somewhat faded image - the details say it is Saltley High Street, looking up to Washwood Heath Road on the left and Alum Rock Road ., Looks like a cart running down the middle of the tram tracks - poles for the tram wire running either side of the road and you can just make out a person on the back of a vehicle on the left.

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This picture is described as looking down Sladefield Road , I have two versions, one a lot darker but fuller image with legs on the children or this lighter image - neither are amazing but I think this offers the better view down the road, lads have white collars and the girls have full dresses, A full set of blinds protecting the goods in the shops

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