OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

[mikejee]

There is a C. Lamb and Sons in Bethnal Green London, furniture mfcts. (1930)

Yes I did see them, but the firm in photo were oil, varnish and colour merchants. I should have said " Could not find relevant firm"

 

[pjmburns]

There is a name on the post office.
??? Place Post Office. Looks a bit like Harrow or perhaps Market. If someone can sharpen the pic it might help.

 

[A Sparks]

There is a name on the post office.
??? Place Post Office. Looks a bit like Harrow or perhaps Market. If someone can sharpen the pic it might help.

I think it's Market Place.

I know Bethnal Green fairly well, it was an area for furniture makers but I don't recognise the spot - it looks too 'country town' to be East London.

 

[SteveBhx]

Happy to put an end on the out of town picture, we know it's not, Birmingham or London, thanks for the ideas and apologies for diverting away from the core of the site
Steve

 

[Pedrocut]

There is a Market Place Post Office in the market place at Banbury, but it may have changed.

 

[pjmburns]

Time for one more - no I don't think this is Birmingham but any offers where? It was among all the Birmingham slides but doesn't look right and there are no features to give a clue of age

thanks

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I am going to stick my neck out and say I think this might be York. It is pedestrianised now so hard to get a good view.
There was, until recently, a Market Place PO but now on the opposite side.
See what you think.
The 2008 view shows the are before pedestrianisation but trees hif=de the shops. The 2018 view shows (as best I can) the shops and I think the windows match. The Last Drop Inn is number 27 Colliergate which fits the number at Bean Whitehead.

 

[Astoness]

smack on jan...even the pillar box and red phone box is still there as shown in steves photo with what looks like a more modern one added next to it..below is 2019 view from a different angle

37 Colliergate · 37 Colliergate, York

37 Colliergate, York

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[pjmburns]

Confirmation of C Lamb in York

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: King's Square, 1950s

A lone policeman stands on duty at the corner of King’s Square in this atmospheric photograph taken we think in the late 1950s.

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[Dennis Williams]

Finally for tonight a test , an industrial cobbled street, but where ? Fine arched leaded windows and the building on the end on the right seems to have writing on the white band, in black and white it would be almost Dickensian. Over to you

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Speaking Style Walk....?

 

[A Sparks]

Well done @pjmburns an excellent piece of detective work!

 

[pjmburns]

Thanks but I struck lucky early on in my search. Not sure I would have checked all the Market Place POs

 

[SteveBhx]

Well done @pjmburns an excellent piece of detective work!

Now the funny thing is I have holidayed and visited York many times, and the thought crossed my mind but managed to convince myself it couldn't be - Thanks again Janice for adding both old and new to one of my images.

 

[mikejee]

I admit I have been there several times, though not for at least 15 years., but did not recognise it

 

[pjmburns]

Just to tie up loose ends - 1957 phone book

 

[SteveBhx]

295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.

 

[SteveBhx]

Two for the price of one next - 312 Tile Cross Road in 1969, quite a variety of items outside this shop, telephone box, postbox and stamp machine, and over to the right are wire milk crates and Midland counties Ice-cream bin and up the corner some weighing scales. Interesting shop fronts too, a door to a hairdressers with barbers pole, a window of fashion clothing backed by tin foil? and the Supermarket / newsagent come post office. On the left the nose of an old van

 

[SteveBhx]

348 Stratford Road 1974, a mixed variety of shops from Newsagent behind the bus shelter, to the restaurant, bay windows on first floor and attic windows , interesting brickwork on the right. Golden Virginia sign on the newsagent and a rack of the latest newspapers .

 

[SteveBhx]

My how styles and taste changes, at the risk of offending someone did we really have units like that in our homes?. Old style telephone number and rolls of carpet stacked outside. knitwear cash and carry which is wholesale only, next an empty shop and the old red and white roadwork barriers. Rear end of a Ford Cortina and sash windows at first floor level.

 

[SteveBhx]

Last one for tonight, Enoch's Exchange and Mart 809-811 Washwood Heath Road, they dont make them like this any more !! Shop sign looks a bit big for the frontage and seems to have poles holding it up. Trailer on its side and a sideboard on the right , can only make out a guitar through the windows though, oh and a Cortina on the left(?)

 

[A Sparks]

My how styles and taste changes, at the risk of offending someone did we really have units like that in our homes?. Old style telephone number and rolls of carpet stacked outside. knitwear cash and carry which is wholesale only, next an empty shop and the old red and white roadwork barriers. Rear end of a Ford Cortina and sash windows at first floor level.

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NOR is an old Handsworth number, Nightingale Knitwear were at 305 Soho Road.
They are still going but now in Great Hampton Street.

 

[Tinpot]

295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.


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when my Dad went to the pub on a Saturday night he would bring back a bottle of VP sherry for my Mum. An advert for Crimplene fabrics in fashion 293. Mop caps and bonnets in Nanette’s to keep the sun off the babbies.

 

[Tinpot]

348 Stratford Road 1974, a mixed variety of shops from Newsagent behind the bus shelter, to the restaurant, bay windows on first floor and attic windows , interesting brickwork on the right. Golden Virginia sign on the newsagent and a rack of the latest newspapers .

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‘Check out’ the jacket and flares standing next to the bus shelter.

 

[Pedrocut]

295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.


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1889... 295 Soho Road...Charles Cutler, Tailor and Outfitter
1986.. Agent for Uncle Sam Travel Agency.

 

[Pedrocut]

My how styles and taste changes, at the risk of offending someone did we really have units like that in our homes?. Old style telephone number and rolls of carpet stacked outside. knitwear cash and carry which is wholesale only, next an empty shop and the old red and white roadwork barriers. Rear end of a Ford Cortina and sash windows at first floor level.

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Hope it don't rain...

 

[Astoness]

NOR is an old Handsworth number, Nightingale Knitwear were at 305 Soho Road.
They are still going but now in Great Hampton Street.

hi sparks just a slight correction... i think you mean nightingales was at gt hampton row not street...previously the building used to be the old engine tavern pub...nightingales closed last year and and the building will be retained and restorations made which is good news as its a very old building...st view below

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[MWS]

Last one for tonight, Enoch's Exchange and Mart 809-811 Washwood Heath Road, they dont make them like this any more !! Shop sign looks a bit big for the frontage and seems to have poles holding it up. Trailer on its side and a sideboard on the right , can only make out a guitar through the windows though, oh and a Cortina on the left(?)

A more local one to me but before my time. It did stump me with the exact location though, only 811 being a shop now.

Not sure you'd see any shop signs advertising for guns these days.

 

[Susan shaw]

Next up same location but different view, and here we have a great sense of what has been lost - take time to get you bearings, Nelson Statue and the market Bottom left and Moor Street Station along the bottom edge, and the scar of the under pass / flyover heading out, and a nice grass island in front of the Fire Station.
It is the amount of building that have been lost amazes me come down Bull Street to High Street and Carrs Lane the amount of building that are just not there and to think we lost those for what is there today !!

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Thanks for the wonderful photos, truly amazing. Sue

 

[pjmburns]

295 Soho Road from 1975, and what a window display Ye Olde Wine shop has, Nanette to the right and a window full of clothes and a slightly disturbing child dummy in the window and a proper pram leaving the shop. Just noticed the Ansells off license sign and I wonder if the wall painted sign is still visible.


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Just up from the Cross Guns - shops still there. This view 2019 because of traffic blocking view in 2020 shot.

 

[Eric Gibson]

NOR 3017, Watsons in Villa Street. Still remember that one.

 

[pjmburns]

Two for the price of one next - 312 Tile Cross Road in 1969, quite a variety of items outside this shop, telephone box, postbox and stamp machine, and over to the right are wire milk crates and Midland counties Ice-cream bin and up the corner some weighing scales. Interesting shop fronts too, a door to a hairdressers with barbers pole, a window of fashion clothing backed by tin foil? and the Supermarket / newsagent come post office. On the left the nose of an old van

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Pillar box and post office still there. Phone box went between Oct 2018 and Sept 2020.