FarmerdaveI have this same postcard. There is a stamp on the back but unfortunately it is not franked. The stamp is a George V green halfpenny. This, plus the clothes worn in the photo, perhaps suggests 1910 or soon after. Dave.
Thanks, the photo was taken prior to 1906 as Wrench ceased pc publishing 1906/7. It is a horse bus you can see the horse art the front turning left, the split back is time appropriate as well.The back is split in that it has a left hand side for the message and a right hand side for the address. There does seem to be a horse bus in it but there is only a rear view with no visible destination sign. At the very bottom of the front side of the postcard it says "The Wrench Series No. 5735". Dave.
When you look at the bus in this picture it almost says I agree to Radiorails remark about the colour of Birmingham buses being his favourite and I agree with him, how smart, clean and business like this bus looks. Actually I don't know who the publisher is, but this is one of those superb late forties early fifties colour postcards. Not garish in colour and a recognisable view.St Mary's Row Moseley ... all the buildings in the view are still there but changed ...
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OMThe postcard was manufactured by me when I coloured it about 8 hours ago ...
That is why I put the pic in this thread rather than the main street pic threads. The image I worked on is shown below and a feature which caught my eye is the van in front of the bus. It seems out of proportion and looks slightly too small. I moved the title in the colour pic because of the watermark.
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With regard to postcards and colour look at the image in post#1901. I can see colour artifacts that suggest it might have been coloured by a computer. Look at the sky, it is difficult for a computer to get the edges of clouds correct. Also that grey shadow patch on the road would have been smoother if hand coloured. Some strange pink areas on buildings and many other odd things which I can recognise as possible computer colouring.
The traffic light is a puzzle, why only one on one side of the road? No matter that you made a mistake, it is still a fine piece of colouring....it had me fooled.Hi Bob,
I have a laptop, desktop, and iPad and the colour of Birmingham buses looks different on each of them so we probably all see slightly different colours. The 'streetview' pic in the link below shows I got the bank (now Costa) wrong. The traffic light was a puzzle but must have been an early design.
oldmohawk
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This shop was once a waiting room for the City of Birmingham Tramways (battery) accumulator cars as this was the Suffolk Street terminus. The distant terminus was at Dawlish Road, Bournbrook. These trams ran for eleven years - 1890 - 1901 until superseded by CBT electric trams.I dont know if this has been posted before, but its too good not to share. Max
The Exchange, Stephenson Place. 1885. Designed by Edward Holmes and opened on Jan 2nd 1865, the Exchange building provided the largest commercial complex in the town. It housed the Exchange and The Chamber of Commerce; and was a place to conduct business. It contained meeting rooms, offices, dining, smoking and coffee rooms. The building was demolished 1960s.