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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx
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SteveBhx
master brummie
This one is over the road from the Police Station where we were the other week -Edit - Incorrect see reply from mikejee below
Bristol Road South from 1968, leafy suburbs, seems a lot quieter, with only a few cars. Love the three storey house on the left and again those historic cars.
Bristol Road South from 1968, leafy suburbs, seems a lot quieter, with only a few cars. Love the three storey house on the left and again those historic cars.
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SteveBhx
master brummie
Finally Pershore Road Stirchley 1972 - I have a selection from around here of just hoardings - nice to recall the adverts but doesn't tell you much else - this is one of the better ones but again the selection is a bit sketchy, the finest point thought is the cast iron Urinal - the saviour to many after a session!!
Brookfields Lad
master brummie
There are workshops now on the left. My friend Chris lived in the first cottage until approx 1990.
Forge lane is the first road on the left.
Steve
This is further along on the same side , not over the road. You can just see the police station in the distance, and too the right of it is Kalamazoo (now Reynolds & Reynolds)
Brookfields Lad
master brummie
One of the last gas lamps I should imagine.
pjmburns
master brummie
This, as near as I can get, is the same corner today.
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pjmburns
master brummie
Lake Carpets were on the corner of Albert street and New Meeting Street. This is the corner of Albert Street now.
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pjmburns
master brummie
This is the last streetview - notice all the cranes working in the area.
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pjmburns
master brummie
This is the junction of Barr Street (on the right) and New John Street today. I think the building on the right might be the one in the photo
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pjmburns
master brummie
I don't know this road at all but this is the only railway bridge I came across.
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with the white horse pub in the distance jan..i shall be in there as soon as its safe
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
The building was around for many years after 1971 ... below shows it in 1987 ...Beehive Warehouse - Masshouse Lane 1971, iconic, derelict building looks like its shedding plaster work, I cannot imaging walking down that fire escape but I believe it was around for many years after this. Can I point out the lamp bottom left on the picture
In October 1987 a long queue stood by the Inner Ring Road near Moor Street Station. People had been offered the chance to walk though the reopened tunnel between Moor Street and Snow Hill stations and hundreds turned up.
pjmburns
master brummie
Difficult to judge where this was exactly but this is Masshouse Lane in 2019 - (2020 had a bus blocking the shot).
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pjmburns
master brummie
Buildings on the right are still there. View taken from wrong carriageway as there was a bus outside the buildings.
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Johnfromstaffs
Johnfromstaffs
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Presumably a combination of the two products mentioned in the adverts would result in a gigantic shandy!
Presumably a combination of the two products mentioned in the adverts would result in a gigantic shandy!
Susan shaw
master brummie
Hi Janice, Know this Road very well, used it for many years. It was the main route we used when visiting my parents from Burntwood to Sheldon. It is the usual route for us when going into Brum too. Obviously not used it of late because of lockdown. Many thanks.
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StevenMc
knowlegable brummie
Couple of comments. Masshouse Circus, what a mess that was! Planned in the days when the car was meant to be 'king' and, of course, Birmingham was one the country's top 'motowns'. I read that had the planners had their way, even more of the city would have been dreadfully developed including the monstrous inner ring highway that we can see in the photo. Colmore Row would have been wiped out though, they did a pretty thorough job on Great Charles Street.The building was around for many years after 1971 ... below shows it in 1987 ...
I've long heard about the Beehive and now know where it was. I often used to wonder what that isolated building I could see form the bus was. Another travesty was the demolition of, I think it was called, Triangle House which became a car park for the La Tour Hotel or whatever that is now called. Anyway, a bit of trivia that I'd guess most will have heard but's worth repeating, was that a certain Jeff Lyne of ELO fame worked with Robert Davis, better known as Jasper Carrot, at the Beehive before they found more worthwhile and rewarding careers!
Finally, I did the walk through the tunnels between Moor Street and Snow Hill and must be in that queue somewhere. What a great experience it was with the fee going to charity which was brilliant. I'm sure no one will disagree that thank goodness Moor Street, because it was outside the inner ring road survived. It's such a shame that Snow Hill couldn't also have been saved.
So much of the old Birmingham was destroyed in the 1960s in the name of 'progress'.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Firstly a couple for jimbo - hope they are close enough to you !!
18 High Street Harborne 1965
From left to right , leg of dog, Smoke room of the pub - imagine, sign for the gents, Moggie, scooter, nice shaped frontages, sign on side of building, lamppost and Shell garage
18 High Street Harborne 1965
From left to right , leg of dog, Smoke room of the pub - imagine, sign for the gents, Moggie, scooter, nice shaped frontages, sign on side of building, lamppost and Shell garage
SteveBhx
master brummie
We now move on 15 years, 70 High Street Harborne 1980, first we have Bejam remember them? Building with the turret and the back of a Fleetliner bus. Next is a building with the shaped front - church hall? and a garage which would sort of fit with the previous picture - someone will tell you.
SteveBhx
master brummie
1191 Stratford Road in 1969, worth a zoom in , looks quite modern off to the distance, then the Morris van coming towards us, railway bridge, lawn mower repairs and supplies and a selection of cars - nice MG and a very battered Herald, which brings us to Cateswell Cafe with its neon sign in the window.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
1966 Griffiths Jones and Co. certified accountants, at 18 High Street.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
How soulless this all looks, I know it is wet and in black & white, but somehow you know you would not want to holiday here. Keep them coming.
Bob