OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

[Dionysius//88]

Back into the city Centre and the Waterloo Bar in New Street, love the large sign for Billiards, and the large portico which is an imposing look, top end of New street - is this where the RBSA is / was - hard to locate as all my reference addresses have moved - was going to say near the Halifax BS but that went ages ago too!!

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Yes it was there Steve although you had'nt got all that portico and columns all over the pavements in the late 50'/60's

 

[Dionysius//88]

Moving onto Paradise Street now and somewhere else which has under gone change - from the centre building with the three eaves all the building to the left have disappeared and not for the best, another glass fronted box with no real architectural merit - not compared with what was there before. Was Stanford and Mann in this block?
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I can recall a S&M Steve stationery shop I recall The Everyman Stationery opposite St Peter's Passage S&M was further up Broad St

 

[Dionysius//88]

C.V.Crabtree was a butcher who had at various times different shops. I believe that this was at 109 Hockley hill, with the M & B off licence at 110. He did also have a shop at 98 Crabtree Road, with off licence next door at no 100 (Ernest Melhuish at 100 in 1949) , but the buttchers and off licence are the wrong way round in that case

Mike it says C V Bull plus the offie is Good Cheers Cellars thats why its muddled

 

[Dionysius//88]

Now this one is local to where I was born as opposed to my local, and was taken a week before I was born !!
This is the Old Horns on the Queslett Road, Great Barr, I was doing a compare / contrast on Street view and the is a passing resemblance as it has been extended both ends and the chimneys have all changed as well as a massive change of the roads - imagine a zebra crossing these days. Note the scales in the entrance, the fancy chimneys and the leading on the chimneys.
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Steve after the demise of the drink Brew X1 from most M & B pubs in favour of John Smiths or somesuch , my son had a house dow by this pub we went for a drink and what had they got on tap Brew X1 I thought I'd found the Holy Grail

 

[Dionysius//88]

Next we have 78 Springfield Street, Ladywood, on the 29th October 1964, I assume an Off -license / outdoor, three storeys with single rooms on the front judging by the windows, note also the tiny window on the side. The property next door seems a bit worse for wear, door and window bricked up and a first floor winout of

I guess the reason it was bricked up Steve was it was round about the time of demolition .

 

[MikeP]

The next picture is taken on trust that is is 109 Hockley Street, Hockley, as there is nothing to show, although the road sign does show Stuart Street which I assume is the other corner ? Corner property with two bay windows upstairs and two pediments either side of the doors and pub windows. Tiny little property to the right of the pub with a few signs next to that although we cannot see the shop.
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I have a particular interest in Stuart Street as it is where a number of my ancestors lived and died, including where my mother was born. As such I have been trying collecting photos of the street. The not quite merged photo attached is of the pub and a photo of Stuart Street, I have left them separate to show the street sign, reminents of a sign on the wall and the matching door frame/windows. I am very confident that this pub was on the corner of Long Acre and Stuart Street in Nechells.

 

[Dionysius//88]

I realise there is a thread for this but for completeness I thought I would post this photo here. ( Feel free to move or I will re post)
This is Hardings Royal Steam bakery, not sure of the year though, van in the front of the building, and I assume this is the office complex with the factory further down the road? . Nice styling to the building - name in the centre with a large central entrance.
EDIT: From MikeJee 1526 Coventry road
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Steve it looks as though they were very trusting in those days , leaving that drum with cable outside

 

[Dionysius//88]

On a similar vain, this pub in an unknown location has interesting buildings either side. I imagine this with dark green porcelain tiled frontage, like the leaded windows and the simple M&B wording on the front. Next door we have ....Worley Provisions, the carved uprights are similar but large than those of the pub and more ornate. Players Navy cut advert on the wall and a large display of tins in the window. On the right is a three storey property which seems to be one room wide and has a chimney equal in height to that of the pub but whose starts much lower down

EDIT: From MikeJee: in Kellys from1932 till 1950. Not in 1921 or 1955 editions
139, 141 Bloomsbury Street is Miss Alice Hart, wine & spirit merchant , with Albert Worley next door at 137 Bloomsbury Street

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Yes I identified these two establishments on another roll of film