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Russell St 1841/1851

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clarkie

Exiled Brummie
Can anyone help in locating Russell St. (Not great Russell St), it appears on a census return in 1851 in St Mary's Ward. It is noted also on the 1841 census but no ward listed.

Clarkie
 
It was off Steelhouse lane (which is diagonally across the bottom right on the map)


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I found this photo on a site which labels it as Russell Street, it's from the 1980s and since demolished. (Don't know if it's correctly labelled. Could it actually be Great Russell Street? And don't know if Russell Street was still in existence in the 1980s? Maybe someone can confirm). Viv.

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Hi Viv.
I think that was Great Russell St. My aunt, the last of my mothers family to leave the city, lived there until the 1950s.

It looks as though Steelhouse Lane Police H/Q was opened in 1892 and Russell St vanished.

Clarkie
 
hi clarkie quiet right it is of gt russell st newtown...its one of phyllis nicklins photos and it was taken in 1967..such quality in her photos..

lyn
 
yes viv caption wrong on that one...as we know phyllis died in 1969...i keep thinking what if i could be transported back just for a little with a modern day camera and take all the photos we now search for lol..

lyn
 
Absolutely Lyn. Mind you it wasn't so easy to take pictures. In modern times where (almost) everyone carries a mobile phone we can snap any threatened building in a second. So you have to admire photographers like Phyllis who would have gone out purposely to get the best shots possible before these views changed dramatically or disappeared altogether. Also, I expect there would have been quite a few duds where images didn't develop too well. One of the real benefits of the way technology has moved on. Viv.
 
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