OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

[SteveBhx]

Apologies for the state of the image the is the Delicia Cinema Gosta Green like the signage - Westling Saturday and the small Craven A advert the car parked out the front and the lorry - best part is I know where this is - and its still there!! - now used by the European Bioenergy Research Unit - it looks amazing and good to see it survive

 

[SteveBhx]

Moving back to Camp Hill and the same roundabout - we now have a view of the Ship Inn with a Tram approaching - again apologies for the dark areas on the photo- had to lighten it to bring out the frontage.

 

[SteveBhx]

We now come to Broad Street in 1939 ( so the list says and we know how reliable that is !!) like the street lamps and the cars parked on the side of the road and is that the colonnade on the right? So we are looking up Broad street to where the ICC is now , and the frontage of the Municiple Bank on the left. Fine line of trees too.

 

[Dionysius//88]

We now move onto the corner of Granville Street and Holloway Head ( although a look at the street nameplate say Bath Row) I need your help though as my information says school - any offers which one? not much to add, two storey with various windows both square and arched and also arched brick frames and the lady with a handbag.

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It was Bath Row from Islington Row to just pas the hospital as far as Granville St then Holloway Head starts , I think that's right considering I lived around there 50/60's

 

[Dionysius//88]

Think the workshop photo must have been taken in winter; dark outside and, as Steve mentioned, the lady's sheepskin-lined booties. Hopefully the stove kept them cozy. Viv

Lyn the rooms weren't a lot of good for your eyes I'm sure

 

[Dionysius//88]

Next we have Royal George in Park Lane - HP Sauce factory peeping out in the background, classic street corner pub
EDIT: Park Road with Tower Road to the left. thanks Brummy Lad
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Lyn don't you think there's an amazing similarity with this pic of The Royal George Park Lane and the Royal George that was in Summer Lane ?

 

[SteveBhx]

Thought I had finished this roll but found a couple on the end - this is Thimblemill Lane and Cheston Road, rather dark but you get the location, industrialized area , scrap yards etc

 

[SteveBhx]

so then if we turn around we have this view, the old railway bridge which I believe comes from near the old shed at Aston. Below that is the cast iron urinal- saviour for many I imagine - When you see the previous picture its hard to imagine a rail line ran across the area, all gone of course.

 

[SteveBhx]

Finally the last picture off the roll and we move further down Thimblemill Lane and come to St. Josephs Catholic Church, church yard look overgrown and neglected - a few words from the Catholic Historic Churches website ( quite an important church apparently)
Year Built: 1850
Architect: A.W.N. Pugin; E. W. Pugin
Conservation Area: No
Listed Status: Grade II
National Heritage List Entry No. 1276230
A cemetery chapel of 1850 and church and presbytery of 1871-2, by A. W. and E. W. Pugin respectively. The church was restored after the war by Giles Gilbert Scott. The large and undulating burial ground, with its monuments, mature planting, historic boundary wall and lychgate make an attractive oasis