OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

[pjmburns]

The Eaton Hotel Hagley Road 1972

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Still there but seems to have expanded a bit - kept the style the same.

 

[Brookfields Lad]

Here we have J R Richards on Saltley Road in 1975. Love the tall building in the background with a variety of styles of window as well as so many ways of blocking them up. Note the proximity to the gasworks - would those have been the ones in the Villa Colours?
Interesting the building has a clock in the front window - nice selection of cars in the car park too.

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I have visited this place many times to have crankshafts reground and cylinders bored. One of the last companies in Birmingham to offer 'white metal' machining. There is a video I'm sure of the inside of this factory.

 

[pjmburns]

240 Green Lane 1974

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Having problems getting a "now" shot as this part of Green Lane is not on Streetview for some reason.

 

[Brookfields Lad]

I am letting the pictures talk for themselves today - 36 -42 Holloway Circus 1981

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Scala cinema on the left. The Jester pub on the right.

 

[Brookfields Lad]

115 Walsall Road , Perry Barr in 1980

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I remember this site when it was 'Colmore Depot BMC commercial vehicles'. The garage was next to 'Tucker Eyelets'. I think the garage in a previous life belonged to the 'Danish Bacon Co'. At the back of the workshops were the original smoking rooms and chimneys, one of which I think is in the picture.

 

[RobT]

Having problems getting a "now" shot as this part of Green Lane is not on Streetview for some reason.

This was 240 Green Lane in 2014, think they may have made it a one way street now,
shot below is 2020
(EDIT: This is 237-239 Green Lane correct location should be opposite corner, shown later in thread)

 

[pjmburns]

Master Tile is listed at 237 - 239 Green Lane so I thought 240 was on the opposite corner which I couldn't get a clear view of. I could only get a side on view.

 

[pjmburns]

Bolton Road 1980 - sorry for the brief words

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Any one any idea where this was? As Bolton Road is now totally different I have no clue where to place this photo.

 

[annie56]

This was 240 Green Lane in 2014, think they may have made it a one way street now,
shot below is 2020

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I don't think that's quite right. The shops would have been just round from the left hand corner of Victoria Street/Green Lane (opposite The Vine pub). Your pic is showing right hand corner.
Annie

 

[Tinpot]

This was 240 Green Lane in 2014, think they may have made it a one way street now,
shot below is 2020

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Both these shots have what is/was the position of The Vine public house on the left. The Let By sign is where the cinema used to be as I remember.

 

[annie56]

Both these shots have what is/was the position of The Vine public house on the left. The Let By sign is where the cinema used to be as I remember.

I lived in the first property in Victoria Street which was side on to the rear of the newsagents and sweetshop in Green Lane and we looked across to the side of Green Lane Picture House.... Again, happy days!
Annie

 

[RobT]

I don't think that's quite right. The shops would have been just round from the left hand corner of Victoria Street/Green Lane (opposite The Vine pub). Your pic is showing right hand corner.
Annie

Thanks annie56 photo should be the right way round now
This is how I found 240 Green Lane on a 1956 map, so here's the opposite corner below

 

[annie56]

Thanks annie56 photo should be the right way round now
This is how I found 240 Green Lane on a 1956 map, so here's the opposite corner below

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Thanks for map and new view.
Good to see my old home is still standing.
Annie

 

[Susan shaw]

Thanks for this pic of Green Lane.... I was a paper girl for the newsagent, Les Ward, in the early sixties. Happy days!

It is a great pic Annie. They all are to be fair. Regards, Sue

 

[pjmburns]

Thanks for map and new view.
Good to see my old home is still standing.
Annie

Two views - one of which I think includes your home Annie

 

[annie56]

Two views - one of which I think includes your home Annie

Wonderful! can't thank you enough, Janice.
That's it, 56 Victoria Street... I was there from 1952 to 1968, then moved to Yardley. I'm a long way away now... Dorset... but so proud and glad of my time growing up in Victoria Street... set me up for life.... best times ever - made me the person I am today.
Once again, many thanks to all involved in this thread.
Annie.

The substation is still there.. I used to climb up onto the flat roof to read and sunbathe.

 

[SteveBhx]

I remember this site when it was 'Colmore Depot BMC commercial vehicles'. The garage was next to 'Tucker Eyelets'. I think the garage in a previous life belonged to the 'Danish Bacon Co'. At the back of the workshops were the original smoking rooms and chimneys, one of which I think is in the picture.

Didn't they go all up market and call themselves Tucker Fasteners ? !

 

[A Sparks]

Didn't they go all up market and call themselves Tucker Fasteners ? !

Yes they did, they were taken over by an American company Emhart and then they became part of Stanley Tools. My Dad worked there for about 30 years.

 

[Tinpot]

Wonderful! can't thank you enough, Janice.
That's it, 56 Victoria Street... I was there from 1952 to 1968, then moved to Yardley. I'm a long way away now... Dorset... but so proud and glad of my time growing up in Victoria Street... set me up for life.... best times ever - made me the person I am today.
Once again, many thanks to all involved in this thread.
Annie.

The substation is still there.. I used to climb up onto the flat roof to read and sunbathe.

 

[Astoness]

and my dad worked for tucker eyelets

lyn

 

[Tinpot]

Wonderful! can't thank you enough, Janice.
That's it, 56 Victoria Street... I was there from 1952 to 1968, then moved to Yardley. I'm a long way away now... Dorset... but so proud and glad of my time growing up in Victoria Street... set me up for life.... best times ever - made me the person I am today.
Once again, many thanks to all involved in this thread.
Annie.

The substation is still there.. I used to climb up onto the flat roof to read and sunbathe.

This has been a really interesting thread for me also. Particularly enjoyed the before and after photographs of this junction and how even though a few old buildings have been demolished on one corner and the new building line pushed back there has basically been very little change of structures for probably 50 years at least. Even the billboards are still there. The cinema and the pub are repurposed. The inner circle bus stop is in the same place. I remember a small Irish club next to the cinema. Tinpot

 

[devonjim]

Two views - one of which I think includes your home Annie

My take on this picture. What was Green Lane Cinema the white building on far left. Little else remains on this side of the road. The Vine junction where the No 8 crossed the 15A&B routes back in the 1950's.

 

[devonjim]

Viv & Lyn

It was definitely rebuilt, though how long it lasted as a cinema I can't say because I only remember it as John Blundels warehouse that all the tally men used. As far as I am aware the building is still standing today.


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Found this view on old thread. Was there another Pinnocks TV Radio store in Balsall Heath?

 

[RobT]

Found this view on old thread. Was there another Pinnocks TV Radio store in Balsall Heath?

In 1955 Pinnick's had another store in Alcester Road South, B14

 

[Tinpot]

I have visited this place many times to have crankshafts reground and cylinders bored. One of the last companies in Birmingham to offer 'white metal' machining. There is a video I'm sure of the inside of this factory.

The building behind Richards is very interesting. It looks like it was built for a very specific purpose with the chimney and high roof vents. Then the external hopper at the other end. Very nice brickwork too. Does it still exist?

 

[Johnfromstaffs]

The building behind Richards is very interesting. It looks like it was built for a very specific purpose with the chimney and high roof vents. Then the external hopper at the other end. Very nice brickwork too. Does it still exist?

My suggestion would be a redundant brewery

 

[mikejee]

The building behind Richards is very interesting. It looks like it was built for a very specific purpose with the chimney and high roof vents. Then the external hopper at the other end. Very nice brickwork too. Does it still exist?

It was originally a brewery, though went through many later incarnations. It is still there, though very dilapidated

 

[mikejee]

There is a thread concerning it at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ast-tower-brewery-building.49414/#post-631277

 

[mikejee]

An aerial view is on part of this video

Exploring Birmingham's Derelict Building

I recently flew my drone over a couple of derelict buildings that have almost become well known landmarks over the last few years. Any information about them would be most welcome

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[pjmburns]

The building behind Richards is very interesting. It looks like it was built for a very specific purpose with the chimney and high roof vents. Then the external hopper at the other end. Very nice brickwork too. Does it still exist?

See photo in post 1454 - now in a poor condition