Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
I doff my titfer to you Speedwing...many many thanks...now signed sealed and delivered...
Now I'm not too sure about this one, Thompson Passage which was off the High Street in the Bull Ring. Although the passage was located between No's 19 & 20 High St I have a feeling that it might have been part of Nelson's Passage or even the yard of the Court Leet on the High Street before Mr Schicklgruber's flyers flattened that side of the Bull Ring out in 1940 and made all the passages into one..
Another one here, I doubt this one ever had a name and probably was simply known as the yard of the Union Hotel that was on the corner of Union St and Corporation St though the yard was pretty large and ran as far down as Warwick Passage. It pleases me to think that there were once premises as visually pleasing as this right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre. It strikes me as a crime every time I think how many of them we have lost whilst other cities have managed to keep theirs.
Yes, there's a member that lived there and we had a discussion about it about six months ago...Browsing through Carl Chinn's OUR BRUM Book from 1997...found this...new one on me...STOKE STREET? Cracking shot anyway...anyone heard of it?
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Yes, there's a member that lived there and we had a discussion about it about six months ago...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=42330&highlight=stoke+street
Strange you mention the blocks that made up the road surface being wood as I remember them as being rubber ? Perhaps they were rubber wood LOL
I wouldn't mind owning one or two of those cars, in that condition now, I wonder if anyone can identify them all.paul
Well done "Speedwing", I reconized the Austin , and V8, my self. regards paul.