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Old street pics..

Its Lawley Street without a doubt you can see the viaduct on Viaduct Street behind it. These two images show it better one is taken from Landor Street and shows the whole building.
 

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00Landor Street foreground and Lawlwy Street goods depot.jpgThanks all thanks Phil ,this is a pic I have of Lawley Street taken from Landor Street so the sheds were probably rebuit
 
Well, nothing to be found of the Railway Goods Office now. The shot below shows what looks like the viaducts from the top of Montague Street which would be off picture to the left, but the rest is a different world. The Goods Office would be behind the bushes on the right....not...'all gone'. Strange to think that all of those folk were standing right there.

I think that you can pick out the building on the GE 1945 view but the 1890 OS does not show much.
 

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carolina said:
Old Square 1932

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Nechells Trolleybus, although it looks like a motorbus. Chassis assembled by GEC using Leyland petrol bus frames - the electric motor and switchgear is under the bonnet, behind a radiator not connected to anything! These were topheavy when new and everything unneccessary upstairs had to be lightened (including removing the destination gear and painting "NECHELLS" on the glass!) and handrail poles downstairs filled with lead to get an acceptible tilt test result.
 
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Oooooh you are awful Nico!! What's funny is the lady seems to be checking her hair 'cos there's a few of them there gentlemen sidling up to the stall that she might impress! Great photo, mainly because of the close up of Market Hall. It seems to dominate the street more than I'd imagined. Viv.
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Maybe be she is showing off her new chest expander and giving that bloke an eyeful Grandmistress Brummie? Are they drapes outside the market hall, or banners or carpets? I thought if they were banners it might be a special day a everyone looks well togged out.
 
Seem to remember seeing a pic of carpets hanging outside the Hall Nico. But they do seem very high up on this photo. Viv.
 
00 strat rd.jpgPretty sure this is the Picture dome the building that preceeded the Picadilly cinema Stratford Road and was demolished around 1929
 
Desperate query...for Mikejeee who I seem to remember solving this yonks ago on another Thread perhaps? Or any other genius of course?...what is the name of this alleyway, under that building in Aston Street...from 1932....if it has a name...map would be nice too...pretty please?

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Dennis
The bakery is Cadwaller's bakery, and the opening beside is Reed's opening according to the reference on the original posting. However in the 1932 Kellys it is named Canvey passage. Presumably Reed had died, and Canvey taken his place . The photo is taken on 11th Feb. 1932, so the caption says, and the map ,c1902 showing the passage in red is below. If it is 1932 it must have been not long before the building of the fire station, which was on that site.

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Dennis

As usual Mike is absolutely right, but when I posted the photo on your Alleyways & Passages thread ( post #168) I thought the photo to be older so I looked at the earlier editions of Kelly's namely 1903 & 1913 and in both editions it is named as Reeds Opening. So as Mike says there must have been a name change sometime after then.
 
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