OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

[Astoness]

I will give you this one for free as I have no information for it , nice building, brickwork, metal framed windows and a few flourishes od carvings. Like the little cafe sign pointing down the side, seems to be all TO LET

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building on the right says premier design ltd..if someone could look it up in the directories we may have the location

lyn

 

[Radiorails]

PREMIER DESIGN AND FIT LTD is a Private limited company (Ltd.) company based in Colman House 121 Livery Street, United Kingdom, which employs 1 people. The company started trading on 28 September 2009. The company registration number is 07031952, It’s listed as Inactive.

 

[Stokkie]

Now to the city centre and a location long gone just off Broad Street, when I was little we used to go to the Ideal Home exhibition at Bingley Hall, park on one of the side streets and walk, and it always fascinated me this building and its almost Dickensian look.
Stratford House, antique shop , and streets with old lamps and is that a church to the right?
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Stratford House, St Peter's Place. The church is St Peter's (R.C.) Phyllis Nicklin notes that this church was demolished in 1969.

By 1984 the antique shop was still there, but a block of flats had been constructed.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2180403

St Peter's has its own thread: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/st-peters-church-broad-st.50436/

In 2014 the Evening Mail disclosed that the nearby burial ground had contained over 1000 bodies secretly removed to Oscott College and reinterred in the 1980s. Almost all were said to be Italians who had emigrated to Birmingham to live, work and worship at St. Peter's in the 18th and 19th century.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/secret-removal-1000-bodies-buried-6734184

 

[lmr3103]

we now move a bit further round and come to the old Library building in Orphanage Road, close look shows it is and suppose still is the Free Library built in the early 1900's, fine building with plenty of glass to allow the light in to read from, cenral entrance with the the main rooms either side.
Interesting that it was built with a donation from Andrew Carnegie a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, who made donations to allow the construction of libraries both here in the UK and in America.
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Closed for Heath and Safety reasons….

 

[lmr3103]

Roll 78, this is more for me to keep track of where I am , first up we are in Livery Street, stonework says " Gothic Vaughton Works ", note how the building is on a slope as the gaps between the ground floor windows increase as you get closer. Not sure how the building works there seems to be a number of windows before the entrance but only one after it? Note the boarded up door on the property nearest us and the ornate work above that door.
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The buildings are still there.

 

[Vivienne14]

We are now onto Roll 77 and this general view across to Snow Hill station showing the changes that have taken place and perhaps how the importance of Birmingham has grown commercially , this view is now covered with office blocks with it hard to see what is behind the site.

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Re post #2230. The tall building in the photo (left) ìs now a Holiday Inn - opposite St Chads. It's obviously had a makeover but there are still some recognisable features - see window comparison below. The subways/underpasses have gone (I think). Was this once the Strathallen Hotel, at least back in the 1980s ? Current Streetview below.