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Old street pics..

Ha,it might have been the fog,because on a right pea-souper of a night in 1962,my best mate Tony drove his "Ford Falcon Special" straight across from Walford Road up the kerb and into that brick wall !!!!
 
Old Square looks quite a classy place on a lot of pics ,I suppose the hoarding around the buildings doesn't help on this one or perhaps it's the camera angle , were Sheffields there for long Brumgum
 
Love the photo of New Street, the blinds at the shop windows were still in place when I was growing up and Adam was still a lad!!
 
View along Corporation Street from Central Fire Station with Bailey Street in right of Picture
(Cars suggest sometime in the 50s)
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berniew said:
Old Square looks quite a classy place on a lot of pics ,I suppose the hoarding around the buildings doesn't help on this one or perhaps it's the camera angle , were Sheffields there for long Brumgum
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I'm not sure, Sheffields were a firm of bill posters in the Midlands and i assumed that the hoardings were just related to the firm but as i think you can see the name Sheffields appears on the building itself i think?.
Mike did a post on Sheffields for me some time ago relating to this same picture on another thread. I think they were a Smethwick firm, so what was this building? is it related to that firm, i'm not sure.
My uncle was a very good decorator due to his trade as a bill poster.
 
Sheffield's, had premises in Lower Priory and Barwick St. Some time back Dennis Williams, MikeJee and myself studied the attached photo of some sandwich board men lined up outside what looks like a Sheffield depot thinking that it might be Barwick st, but we came to no positive conclusion.
 

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Berniew.
Thanks for those Photos, I was in the railway shelter in Pitsford street when the Landmine hit that part.
Brookieboy
 
old_sq_1890.jpgThis caption says Old Square 1890 looks a lot better than the 1900 old square pic thus was posted by someone on this foprum before
 
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