Eric Gibson
master brummie
I don't think it's grand enough to be a Granada I think it's a Mk2 Cortina., Shame about the damage.
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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx
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NoddKD
master brummie
pjmburns
master brummie
On the map below - L is obviously Lewis's, M is where the Midland Ed was at number 104 (having moved from lower down Corporation St) and the x is where Poundland is today.
Johnfromstaffs
Johnfromstaffs
The crumpled Saloon is indeed a Mk2 Cortina, the challenge was for the headlamp in the bottom right hand corner, a Mk1 Granny undoubtedly, I had one, but now I’m married to one!
SteveBhx
master brummie
Now thats not nice
, apologising already.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
I didn't look close enough.
I had one of those sitting in the back yard behind my workshop, came back from a visit to Brum and found a thief sitting in it trying to remove the radio, trapped him in the car with a pile of scrap tyres and the cops came and dragged him out, they then caught his getaway driver sitting in a stolen Mini in the pub car park opposite.
SteveBhx
master brummie
General view of 1 Birdbrook Road in 1980, never know if this is Kingstanding or Perry Beeches or depends on who owns the house . Fashion shop now selling car parts, selection of cars parked down the road and a number of cigarette signs outside what I presume is a newsagents. Is that the rear of a Datsun, all chrome edging.?
Eric Gibson
master brummie
1 Birdbrook Road in 1980 Great Bar Steve. I lived in Birdbrook Road from 1956 until 1965
pjmburns
master brummie
This caused me some confusion. I searched for "Edgbaston Hotel" and got a different address and building. So I resorted to the phone book and Pedrocut's advert which gave me 323 Hagley Road. This now looks like a private house and I think the Hotel has retained the name but moved to 18 Highfield Road. So you have a choice - the original house as it is now or the new hotel.
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pjmburns
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I have gone back to 2015 for this shot as you can see on that view that the building which sold auto spares in 1980 was still selling them in 2015 (although I don't know if it was the same people). The view is slightly different as I suspect the original was taken from the middle of the grassed area - which, of course, you can't do on Streetview.
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Brookfields Lad
master brummie
This is going to be a long shot and I may even get castigated for my suggestions, (I won't be offended) my thoughts are;
This is Holyhead road, West Brom.
We are looking towards Park lane just past the tall advertising hoarding on the left.
In the distance on the left is Island road.
On the right in the near distance is the Hawthorns (Albion) football ground.
What are your thoughts, am I barking up the wrong tree?
pjmburns
master brummie
I am not sure but I think this is the right place. The pub sign visible belongs to The Mitre which is still there today. I am also attaching a map (1970s) which shows a garage and also the Mitre plus the railway lines close by.
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aston lad
master brummie
Ref photo 1266....Shady Lane ...This building was on the right hand side of the road coming from Kings Road, not too far from the junction with Kings Road, I first when there in the early 70's to collect some boarding to board out a company van when working at Gaedor...it was know as Calypso then, I am sure it was renamed again before Do it All took it over, when I lived on the Aldridge Road, I often used it for any bits and pieces I needed at the time ...
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pjmburns
master brummie
You could be right. I don't know the area but I think, from maps, the photo would be from just past WBA ground. On the right there is a sign "members only" and at about that point was/is the Throstles Club (might explain the coach parked there.
See this 1970s map. Open ground up to Park Lane which fits in with the photo.
Johnfromstaffs
Johnfromstaffs
A Mk X Jaguar faces the camera, a Reliant Scimitar GTE faces away behind a 1.8 Morris Marina, and the coach is a Plaxton Panorama but no idea whose chassis it sits on. The only slightly unusual car in the car park is a Fiat 124 estate which looks so new that it hasn’t had time to rust away yet.
P.S. A later dig has found that the coach could be a Seddon Pennine/Plaxton Panorama Elite II.
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SteveBhx
master brummie
Calypso - flipping heck thats a blast glad you could direct Janice.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
A Mk X Jaguar faces the camera, a Reliant Scimitar GTE faces away behind a 1.8 Morris Marina, and the coach is a Plaxton Panorama but no idea whose chassis it sits on. The only slightly unusual car in the car park is a Fiat 124 estate which looks so new that it hasn’t had time to rust away yet.
P.S. A later dig has found that the coach could be a Seddon Pennine/Plaxton Panorama Elite II.
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I think your Fiat might be a Lada John, I had a newsagent customer here who ran nothing else for years.
Johnfromstaffs
Johnfromstaffs
It has the Fiat badging on the bottom rh corner of the tailgate I think. I did check.
According to what I have read subsequently, the Fiat 124 was in production from 1966 to 1974, and the Lada commenced in 1974 following the Fiat’s demise. Since it is a 1974 picture I would stick with my Fiat theory.
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pjmburns
master brummie
Thanks for that. I don't think I would have been too far away as when I checked the 1970s map I had my eye on the buildings on the right coming from Kings Road (marked with red line) - so the works or the warehouse.
