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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road.
We start just round the corner from Great Charles Street, three storey town house - stone frames windows with leaded inserts, look to to how the guttering is attached to the building and the curled metalwork above it.

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We now have a name long gone Bradford and Bingley Building Society - this became a Bank and then was nationalised in 2000 with its assetts been bought by Abbey National who themselves were bought out by Santander.
Fine stone building with grand entrances either side of the modern shop frontage , three storeys with attic rooms too, love the little bay windows on the third floor. there is also a Midland Bank next door another name we have lost
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Bit further up and we come to the corner with Cornwall Street, fine building with so much happening, from the left, entrance with almost a dutch style to the building, this then move to a corner building with a turret style top to it, metal railings and an arched metal window frame, has now become an All bar One.

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We now look further up Cornwall Street and again we can see the wide variety of building up the road , grand premises most double fronted with council office at the top of the road and the Midland Institute to the left . see also the street light reflecting ( sorry ) that this is pat of the Conservation area.
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SteveBhx said:
We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road.
We start just round the corner from Great Charles Street, three storey town house - stone frames windows with leaded inserts, look to to how the guttering is attached to the building and the curled metalwork above it.

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Was there a nightclub around about there? I remember going downstairs into a basement in a very similar looking building….
 
lmr3103 said:
Was there a nightclub around about there? I remember going downstairs into a basement in a very similar looking building….
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Probably Pollyanna's?

Pollyanna’s was a wildly popular 1970s nightclub located on Newhall Street, situated just a short walk from Great Charles Street in Birmingham. It was operated by the Fewtrell family empire, which dominated the city's nightlife at the time.
Opened in the 1960s as The Revolution before transforming into Pollyanna’s, it became a defining hotspot of 1970s Birmingham nightlife. It was known for its upbeat atmosphere, resident DJs, and iconic, energetic party nights.
 
A Sparks said:
Probably Pollyanna's?

Pollyanna’s was a wildly popular 1970s nightclub located on Newhall Street, situated just a short walk from Great Charles Street in Birmingham. It was operated by the Fewtrell family empire, which dominated the city's nightlife at the time.
Opened in the 1960s as The Revolution before transforming into Pollyanna’s, it became a defining hotspot of 1970s Birmingham nightlife. It was known for its upbeat atmosphere, resident DJs, and iconic, energetic party nights.
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Thanks for that Sparks.
 
The worst possible building of all time for kids used to be on this street when I was a kid. and it was named The Dental Hospital . Gt Charles Street took on a whole new outlook to me when it was moved from here
 
We now move back to the city centre and the construction/ redevelopment of what was the grassed area infront of the Council house and the road that used to sweep around into New Street, while the grassed area was loveley you cannot imagine the road routing across and round the front of the council house - cars busses and lorries!!

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We now move to the rear of the council house and to Church Street, we have the corner here of Barwick Street and this is the Eye Hospital, imposing brick building with the large plaque on the corner confirming the location , love the window on the corner below it. Has been refurbished and is now Hotel de Vin.

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we have now moved a couple of Streets to Edmund Street, this is 128 Edmund Street, with the To Let sign , I used to work for the council in the building to the left and all the time we worked there this office was empty - these days it is the posh end of town with solicitors office and tax firms - nice to see all the fine carving on the front and the brickwork.
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and finally on this roll we turn around and come to the White Swan, 134 - 136 Edmunds Street, doesnt look like it can make its mind up on style , brick build but has the small bay windows with the dimple window glass as well as small window panes. These days it has been split into two building and modern frontage has been added but looks good.

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Now onto Roll 75 and we continue up and down Edmund Street with the ENT Hospital ( Ear Nose and Throat) very dour looking building and not very inviting , I spent the night there once - rather surreal as I previously said I was working in the office across the road , so inhospital 30 feet from your office. Brick built with a fine entrance with a glass wrought iron cover . You can just make out the wording Ear Nose and Throat Hospital inthe terracotta lettering. Has now been converted to a Solicitors Office.
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We now pop around the corner to Barwick Street, an intriguing shot of the back edge of a the buildings, it was always an empty street rears of the building windows boarded up no visible entrance, but without the diggers it could be any time with the lamp, note the date above the door.
While the building with the dates remains only the frontage remains to the left of the lamp with a mdern building behind it.
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we are now at the top of Ludagte Hill picture taken in 1991, looks like a fire had recently damaged the building on the left doors shut windows boarded up _ looked on street view - it is exactly the same - nothing has happened in 30+ years !! What a shame that no one seems fit to refurbish these old buildings.

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We have now turned around and walked down Ludgate Hill to this building on the corner of Lionel Street, brick built with large windows on the ground floor and we assume high ceilings inside with smaller windows with metal frames on the higher floors , note the round windows on the top floor corner , now converted to flats ( Ludgate Apartments) I was interested to see a blue plaque on the side of the building, this was the Home of Rowland Emmet, who? among other things he was the creator of the inventions for Caracticus Potts on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and those interested in these things made the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway.

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