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old evening mail pics.....

bull ring (correctly high st) market hall...c 1890

bull ring...9th june 1979
 

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Was King Edward VI Grammar School, on the south side of New Street half-way between High Street/ Worcester Street and Stephenson Street, the original site of The Guild of the Holy Cross (founded 1392, abolished 1545, demolished 1707 and replaced by a neo-classical building which in turn was demolished 1830 and replaced by a large gothic building by Charles Barry architect of the Houses of Parliament. All demolished 1936)?
 
old square (upper priory on the right) c 1890
 

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old square..from corporation st c 1903
 

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queens college..paradise st 1889...
 

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bull st..from high st c 1886
 

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bull st from high st 1975
 

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corporation st from st stephensons place...aug 1907
 

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corporation st from st stephensons place...sept 1975
 

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corporation st maps..
 

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st marys row moseley.the fighting cocks inn c 1880
 

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fighting cocks inn feb 1976
 

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i shall also be posting this one on the summer lane thread later...thats it for now folks hope they were of some interest to you...

summer lane general hospital...c 1890
 

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Note on posts 300 and 301 you can see the old Lamb house just before demolition, and them a couple of years later, what was built on the site. The advert on the building next door shows up , as it did on earlier photographs as it was being demolished.
mike
 
lyn love the Town Hall pics,I haven't been inside for years but thats just how I remember it.Bull Street looks very Dickensien.
Thanks for posting them. Lynne
 
thanks lynne and kelly..you know the more i look at some of those pics the more i am convinced that such a lot of our historical buildings need not have been demolished..they were strong and sound and would well have outlasted the rubbish that replaced them..we will never get them back..the architecture on them was worth its weight in gold..all we have are the pictures...well thats my moan for the day..

lyn
 
My future wife's uncle got married in 1951 at the old Registry Office in the city centre, he lived in Phillips Street, Newtown and with other relatives and friends we caught the No 6 tram to Martineau Street. We had reached Paradise Street when he realised it was 2.30 he was getting married, not 1.30, and since it was only 1 o'clock he insisted we passed the time away in the 'Woodmans', he was very nervous about taking the wedding vows and accepted all the 'Dutch Courage' that was offered him, so that by the time we got him to the registry office he could hardly stand...... were we in trouble. That was the first and last time I visited the Woodman Inn, but remember how fabulous the interior was.
 
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hi ragga...thanks for posting...the first pic is great and i have not seen this one before...the second is of the alma st celebrations 1953 and i may have put this one on the alma street thread...the little lad in the bottom left hand corner now goes out with my sister...

having sifted through 3 carrier bags of old mails my hands are ruined..lol

ps hope you dont mind but i have turned this one around for you.....


lyn:)
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great Photo....i was around the corner at the top end of Paddington street........we had a photo of that somewhere.......
 
View attachment 57610Lyn,I wonder what they were thinking when they made these changes?View attachment 57609Moss..
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moss my friend...i have wondered that same thing myself for many years...i can only think that some sort of insanity overcame the powers that be..the pics i will be posting tomorrow will do nothing to make us feel any better im afraid so like me please get ready to bite yer tongue...we dont want to get the order of the boot from the forum..

lyn
 
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