Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
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View attachment 95226viv you have just reminded me of this pic i posted about 3 years back...you may have seen it...plenty of posters on this one..
Loved this old pic of the Navigation Inn in Wharf Road, Kings Norton from 134 years ago (1880)! Just been saved from demolition I gather....https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/ne...birmingham-pub-the-navigation-in-kings-189635
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Wow...a tremendous aerial view of the Bullring development.....Market Hall and Worcester Street just about still there, pre Rotunda..beginnings of Smallbrook Queensway...Exchange and Queens Hotel still there....Hipodrome Tower...extensive markets etc....Brilliant find for me...
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Fantastic picture of New Street, Dennis. Looks to be about 1910. The Theatre Royal is on the right and according to my Godfrey map there should be a picture house just beyond that. The name under the large clock appears to read "Stalding" but does not mean anything to me. Extreme top left I can read the word "Irish" but not the other words. Thanks. Dave.Ok.....but surely someone might notice THIS one..?
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Fantastic picture of New Street, Dennis. Looks to be about 1910. The Theatre Royal is on the right and according to my Godfrey map there should be a picture house just beyond that. The name under the large clock appears to read "Stalding" but does not mean anything to me. Extreme top left I can read the word "Irish" but not the other words. Thanks. Dave.
The tag says Albert St 1960, the problem is I used the number 50 bus on a regular basis back then it was the last bus stop on the left at the top of the hill and the thing is I don't remember it being two way traffic back then. Is it just my memory playing tricks on me?
I can't speak for 1960 but my memory of Albert Street in the early 1980s was that it was two way traffic going down under Moor Street Ringway to the car parks.
Yes but wasn't that when all the bus terminus's were on The High Street or Carr Lane?