SteveBhx
master brummie
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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx
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SteveBhx
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Thought I would upload a few shops as we have not had some for a while - this is 105 -107 Bordesley Green, George Mason has just closed down - Green Shield signs still in the window but the rest of the road looks busy, Next door has a fine selection of Corona pop on the shelves and next to that the windows are stacked with goods.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Now I am not sure which is the best bit in this picture - the WMPTE lorry, the advert for the Silver cross luxury baby coach or the workmen studying the shop window. You don't see windows like that anymore prams pushchairs rocking horse and toys!! Sorry this is 298 Stratford Road in 1973. I like the way the guttering crosses all the attic windows and the little bays at the first floor
Pedrocut
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SteveBhx
master brummie
Next we have 313 Coventry Road in 1968, can you imagine a players advert like that today - no health warning and the virtues of the outdoor life. The Old gate with its own Outdoor - My Cellar, inn the classic Ansells colours, then a Gas Board shop something else which has gone, and the usual array of high street shops with no famous names to see just the places you went when you needed something new. Can I also point out that the chimneys are either side of the roof ridge rather than sitting in the middle.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Finally for tonight two classic shopfronts, one a newsagents, the other the sweet shop. This is 240 Green Lane in 1974
The newsagent with the wire frames holding the latest news and those cards in the window for your pencil sharpeners, rubbers ( with two types of rubber) and pens. The sweet shop with jars in the window, sweet machines on the wall, Walls ice-cream litter bin and those Whites lemonade adverts. Plenty of cigarette signs and love the sign on the wall .
The newsagent with the wire frames holding the latest news and those cards in the window for your pencil sharpeners, rubbers ( with two types of rubber) and pens. The sweet shop with jars in the window, sweet machines on the wall, Walls ice-cream litter bin and those Whites lemonade adverts. Plenty of cigarette signs and love the sign on the wall .
pjmburns
master brummie
I had trouble with this before as streetview is not available outside for some reason.
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The shop above does not seem to exist anymore - Ladbrokes occuy 541 and 543 Green Lane/ The view I am posting shows other older shops on the left and the windows in the first floor match those in the 1974 view.
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pjmburns
master brummie
The wall with the advert on now seems to have graffitti on it. Shop fronts have changed but I think the buildings are still the same.
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pjmburns
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Dyson Richards is now the Caspian Pizza and Roadleys has become the Masaka Food Store. The bay windows have gone but their outline remains with new brickwork.
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pjmburns
master brummie
The old shops have gone - replaced by a car park. 311 is Carpet World and I think it is the building we can see on the rhs of the above photo - windows seem to match.
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This view of the open fronted shop looks something like the shop my mother worked at when I was a child. If so it would have then belonged to Fred Corbett and is just beyond the junction with Victoria St. It was a greengrocers, fish and poultry shop in 50’s
pjmburns
master brummie
As near as I can get.
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pjmburns
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pjmburns
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Not much left on that side of the street.
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Strangely smaller than my childhood memory would have me believe. Sometimes went there when my Mum was serving spuds and cabbage. ‘ Alf ‘ looked after the fish and poultry side of things wearing his cap and long apron. this photograph would be a little later I think. Tinpot
pjmburns
master brummie
I always think places that loomed large in childhood seem smaller when we revisit as an adult. At my school the ground floor had one very long, wide and large corridor - or so I thought. I had reason to visit as a teacher several years later and was amazed by how narrow and short it seemed.
WestCorkWarrior
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WestCorkWarrior
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This brings back memories for me. I was a paperboy for NSS from 1970-1972 servicing Middleton Hall Rd and roads off it.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Evening back again with another selection.
Here is a view of New Street station in the process of redevelopment, station level has been built now the shops and offices are under construction. Note bottom right the north point just above the bridge link and at the top right the piece of open land in the process of becoming redeveloped and the top end of New Street before it was redeveloped.
Here is a view of New Street station in the process of redevelopment, station level has been built now the shops and offices are under construction. Note bottom right the north point just above the bridge link and at the top right the piece of open land in the process of becoming redeveloped and the top end of New Street before it was redeveloped.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Next is an interesting view of the market, with bags of onions, crates of vegetables, barrows and various characters standing around, love the signs on the walls, but if you look to the right there is a lady with a blue hat, which makes you wonder what she was doing there, purchasing vegetables?
SteveBhx
master brummie
This is taken at the construction of the Aston Expressway with the cross City line heading towards Erdington and the River Tame underneath it all. Amazing to see the crane constructing the pillars in the canal with the metal girders seemingly scattered around with a lack of any barriers or people actually. I am thinking around Electric Avenue?
SteveBhx
master brummie
This is one of the iconic adverts on the side of the office block by the Bull Ring, another was the beer glass which filled (or have I imagined this) . Presumably quite difficult in its time - today it would be a TV screen with actual pictures !!
Forerunner of Schh you know who - you have to be a certain age.
Forerunner of Schh you know who - you have to be a certain age.
This would have been then 1970s markets, as too clean and modern to be earlier one
SteveBhx
master brummie
Last up tonight - not one of the sharpest images but quite old and I feel will bring back memories for some - not that its a pub, if I have the location correct - now I think this is Alma Street Newtown - am I right ? and I think the pub is the Royal Exchange, this is all taken from the picture not googled hence where you all come in!
If the location is correct I know many of you enjoy this area - if not I have made a fool of myself but you will enjoy correcting me ( thats sounds like you enjoy doing that which is not what I meant) and adding to the history of the image.
Not sure of the gent in the road - I would hate for someone to recognise him, the large lamp on the pub corner and the ornamental street lamp and the rear entry bus.
If the location is correct I know many of you enjoy this area - if not I have made a fool of myself but you will enjoy correcting me ( thats sounds like you enjoy doing that which is not what I meant) and adding to the history of the image.
Not sure of the gent in the road - I would hate for someone to recognise him, the large lamp on the pub corner and the ornamental street lamp and the rear entry bus.
SteveBhx
master brummie
Just noticed, is that a gents on the right with a large lamp over it ?
