OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

[SteveBhx]

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.

 

[SteveBhx]

Cannon House Priory Queensway - so much to see in this picture - the shops in the subway the chaos of the roundabout - Fleet liner bus, Parcels lorry, on the Queensway itself is a varied selection of shops, Cigarette token gift centre, Holland and Barratt, Ceylon Tea centre and ABC newspapers, who my dad worked for, which considering how close to the Post and Mail building was printed in Bloxwich !!
If we look above street level we have the iconic blood donor centre and peeping above them all the Post and Mail building with its clock and thermometer.

 

[SteveBhx]

*Edit Lower Temple Street ( thanks BrummieGeoff ) in 1972, firstly there is traffic, pavements and a nice selection of street furniture. Plenty of shop signs, and the Aristocracy of Footwear apparently from Day and Co. The entrance to Burlington arcade and a wide variety of fashions. and the battered Ford van. On the corner above H Pope is the back of a sign is that the hotel?

 

[Pedrocut]

This is from 1914 and quotes 135/136, but may have been separate before around 1900. The address dates back to at least 1839 when it was an Haberdashery at 135.

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.
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[SteveBhx]

A bit different Smallbrook Queensway underpass from 1970, what a dark place that was with the mosaic tile in the pillars. We have La Dolce Vita nightclub, Corinthian Health Club, and note the iconic uplighters on the buildings and the window cleaners above Hurst street.

 

[Pedrocut]

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.
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Birmingham Daily Post, October 1977.

 

[Susan shaw]

Me too,

thanks to all for your information Steve

Thanks for great photos Steve.

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Great photos .... I believe #633 shows Lower Temple Street (not Newhall Street).

 

[Astoness]

Cannon House Priory Queensway - so much to see in this picture - the shops in the subway the chaos of the roundabout - Fleet liner bus, Parcels lorry, on the Queensway itself is a varied selection of shops, Cigarette token gift centre, Holland and Barratt, Ceylon Tea centre and ABC newspapers, who my dad worked for, which considering how close to the Post and Mail building was printed in Bloxwich !!
If we look above street level we have the iconic blood donor centre and peeping above them all the Post and Mail building with its clock and thermometer.

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nice pic of bell nicolson and lunt steve...i used to work there

lyn

 

[Astoness]

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.
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i wonder if this was the forerunner of the massive wing yip on thimble mill lane

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[Pedrocut]

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.
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From Wikipedia...
Other notable buildings in Digbeth, include the now-defunct The Clothing Mart operated by George Makepeace at 135-6 Digbeth which was designed by James Patchett of Ombersley. Built in 1913, it is a steel framed structure with a mixture of façade materials. The façade consists of bright red brick and orange terracotta. The building is no longer used by George Makepeace and has changed hands, undergoing a variety of uses. Several aspects of its original architecture have been lost including a first floor iron balcony, above which electric lanterns with hooded lenses from two iron holders that remain. Either side of these were iron and glass lamps resembling Medici goblets. The orange pilasters sit on a key stone and pedimented blocks set with round pink granite stones and the parapet is of green glazed terracotta.[13]

 

[SteveBhx]

Great photos .... I believe #633 shows Lower Temple Street (not Newhall Street).

Now amended with credit thanks

 

[pjmburns]

Suffolk Street Queensway in 1974, the old and the new of the Alexandra Theatre, with Spike Milligan next week. HIFI shop and wine bar and a few half cars, Ford Escort & van and a Hillman Imp. You can also see an old style telephone in an upstairs window

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[pjmburns]

What a lovely view of an old building - 135 - 136 Digbeth in 1970, seen here as one of the original Wing Yip stores, I imagine very exotic in those days. Love the ornamental brickwork and the fancy brackets for signs which they are looking to reuse.
I also see that Count Bartelli is wrestling at Bingley Hall.
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I remember this - the name fascinated me when we went by on the bus.

 

[pjmburns]

Cannon House Priory Queensway - so much to see in this picture - the shops in the subway the chaos of the roundabout - Fleet liner bus, Parcels lorry, on the Queensway itself is a varied selection of shops, Cigarette token gift centre, Holland and Barratt, Ceylon Tea centre and ABC newspapers, who my dad worked for, which considering how close to the Post and Mail building was printed in Bloxwich !!
If we look above street level we have the iconic blood donor centre and peeping above them all the Post and Mail building with its clock and thermometer.

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[A Sparks]

nice pic of bell nicolson and lunt steve...i used to work there

lyn

I used to donate my blood at the centre in that building, the Civil Service used to allow us to go in working hours!

 

[pjmburns]

*Edit Lower Temple Street ( thanks BrummieGeoff ) in 1972, firstly there is traffic, pavements and a nice selection of street furniture. Plenty of shop signs, and the Aristocracy of Footwear apparently from Day and Co. The entrance to Burlington arcade and a wide variety of fashions. and the battered Ford van. On the corner above H Pope is the back of a sign is that the hotel?

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Took a while to work this out but H P Poe was 114 New Street and that is the address today of Starbucks.

 

[pjmburns]

A bit different Smallbrook Queensway underpass from 1970, what a dark place that was with the mosaic tile in the pillars. We have La Dolce Vita nightclub, Corinthian Health Club, and note the iconic uplighters on the buildings and the window cleaners above Hurst street.

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Had to get my bearings - think this is the right place.

 

[mikejee]

I think Wing Yip opened a warehouse first, before the shop. I remember visiting the warehouse soon after it opened and don't remember there being a more conventional shop then

 

[Astoness]

I think Wing Yip opened a warehouse first, before the shop. I remember visiting the warehouse soon after it opened and don't remember there being a more conventional shop then

oh right mike i didnt think wing yip at nechells had been there for over 50 years one of sisters lives near in longacre and i cant recall it being there all those years ago..mind you time flys

 

[mikejee]

I cant remember exactly where the warehouse was Lyn, except that it was off Digbeth/deritend in a side street. I find it interesting that the Kellys fro 1971, 1971 list the Makepeace building just as "Chinese supermarket" Presumably the compilers did not think any British person would be interested in whose it was

 

[Astoness]

oh right mike i am talking about the wing yip in nechells...posting street view again

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[pjmburns]

1978 phone book

First mention of 135 - 136 was in 1970 phone book but no mention of elsewhere in that year.

 

[mikejee]

No Definitely not that building. Just seen Janice's post . It would have been the Coventry St one

 

[Astoness]

thanks mike and jan...looks like the digbeth one moved to nechells then mike...its a massive place

lyn

 

[Susan shaw]

Cannon House Priory Queensway - so much to see in this picture - the shops in the subway the chaos of the roundabout - Fleet liner bus, Parcels lorry, on the Queensway itself is a varied selection of shops, Cigarette token gift centre, Holland and Barratt, Ceylon Tea centre and ABC newspapers, who my dad worked for, which considering how close to the Post and Mail building was printed in Bloxwich !!
If we look above street level we have the iconic blood donor centre and peeping above them all the Post and Mail building with its clock and thermometer.

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I love this photo Steve. My dad had a lock up on the corner of Steelhouse Lane. (Newspapers, magazines cigarettes etc) having left the Birmingham Post. Think his hut from memory was by the law firm on the corner. He used to park his car outside the Gaumont. My brother once told me there was a photograph in Carl Chinns magazine Old Brum of the Gaumont and my dads car was parked outside. (With permission of course). Would love to see it. Thanks again

 

[A Sparks]

1978 phone book
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First mention of 135 - 136 was in 1970 phone book but no mention of elsewhere in that year.

I believe Wing Yip in Birmingham were the first Chinese cash and carry in the UK.

 

[carolina]

August 1976.

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Is this the one that had the tree in the middle of the restaurant?

 

[carolina]

I cant remember exactly where the warehouse was Lyn, except that it was off Digbeth/deritend in a side street. I find it interesting that the Kellys fro 1971, 1971 list the Makepeace building just as "Chinese supermarket" Presumably the compilers did not think any British person would be interested in whose it was

Wasnt there one in Pershore Street? Im sure I remember going there

 

[Tates]

Evening all, a bit different tonight.
Old but still there to gone altogether, help needed to work out where and what the last one is
First up good old Villa Park looking a bit different with the Granada Bingo, looks like the players have started to arrive

Only Joined tonight.......but anyway.......Used to go down the Villa on a Sunday morning as the players used to come down to do whatever & then we'd go next door as the bingo place used to be bowling alley in the mid 60's........