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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

We now move onto Roll 57, these last two rolls have been quite small as there were lots of pictures of a vehicle run ( lorries busses and old cars) which seems to have gone down Aston Road North, all August 1991.
The rest of the roll is covered by the following description " The redeveloping of the new road ways in Nechells Park Road and Nechells Place and Saltley Road" as I don't know the area and the pictures are from 1991 I will add a few comments and post the pictures.
The HP sauce factory pins the location, and a large car park and lots of building spoil and pipes
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A move to the right and we this a location, gas holders, old warehouse, rail line and bridge - interesting road layout as both lane are heading away from us road sign points to Adderley Park and Duddeston but there is no road heading towards us (?)
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SteveBhx said:
We now hop over to Digbeth and this time it is as if nothing has changed, we are looking down Floodgate Street to Digbeth with Little Ann Street on the right, working from the left Ashton Engineering - still there, viaduct - same, pub- yes, factory with the steel windows - yes and even under the bridge the large building on the right is still there - and it looks fine - the only change is the Swan is now know as the Ruin .

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Another change is that Digbeth is covered in graffiti these days......
 
SteveBhx said:
We now move to the other side of the bridge and see how big the building site is - there are barriers and piles of rubble everywhere, if you see whyere the bridge height sign is you can work out where the original road line was.
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this photo and the previous 3 show the demo of the old buildings and tunnel icknield st and the new bridge going up....not seen these before steve but here is a photo of the old bridge and buildings..so scary walking through it...mom used to drag me through it to go shopping at spring hill :D

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SteveBhx said:
Back to roll 128, hard to keep track of these as there are pictures with no description, ( faded horse etc), I assume I am back in the right direction now. This is the Community Centre Monument Road Ladywood, 1965. It does say 3/4 but not sure if it is 3rd April or 3/4 shot?!

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Although I lived local to this building , I didn't know what it was . As kids we went swimming the baths being next door on the left hand side . Nice decorative brickwork Steve .
 
SteveBhx said:
23rd March 1967 is when this photo was taken and my information says it is the old West End Suffolk Street, I can see that is called the West End Ballroom, I assume is was always a dance location? Just one figure walking up the street I imagine it was a lot busier Saturday nights!

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Steve the double door nearest to us with the semicircular canopy is the entrance to the dance floor . Moving up to where the man is was the entrance to the cinema . I saw Spartacus in the early 60's there
 
Tinpot said:
For some reason unknown to me we all went from school to the cinema there in the 60’s to see South Pacific . The cinema was full of school kids.
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Tinpot I suggested going to The Gaumont to see Lawrence of Arabia in 196,1 I'd seen it seven times by doing duties with St John Ambulance Brigade, anyway the history teacher was in agreement and the day was arranged. I was over the moon with the decision pity, a lot of the class didn't share my enthusiasm though, strange that I thought
 
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