See Birmingham by Post Card

[rustie]

Hi Phil,

Great photo of the Maypole cinema. My first visit there was when my sister who lived in Moseley took me. I must have been about 12. I'd never been to the Maypole before and when we got off the bus it seemed so quiet I thought we were in the heart of the country.

Rustie

 

[Graham]

I've posted this on another thread but it is not out of place here. It is Cannon Hill Park. Anyone know this building and is it still standing?

Graham.

 

[Stitcher]

The only playground for this Victorian school in Granville St. was on the roof

 

[motorman-mike]

Hi Mike

Its Steelhouse Lane, it was taken outside Richards & Goodings House Furnishers 1-6 Steelhouse Lane.

Phil

Many thanks Phil, glad to know location given on card was correct after all. Interesting though, Steel and House as seperate words on the card.
Mike

 

[Rupert]

The side of the multi-story building looked like Moor Street Warehouse at first, with the adds. I can see now that it is just along a bit from Snow Hill.

 

[OtherHalf]

re stitchers picture of victorian school Many many years ago used to play 5 a side football and we used to use a place like that one ie rooftop of school buildings ?might have been one of them was that common? The roofs I mean not the 5 a side

 

[motorman-mike]

Some interesting 1940's and early 50's backsides in Corporation Street. (Cars and buses, that is)

 

[jennyann]

When I went to school for a couple of years to Lawrence's College on Corporation Street corner of Martineau Street, we had no facilities for sports whatsoever. So no roof football. We went to Kyle Hall for gym, Edgbaston and Witton Lakes for tennis, Woodcock Street for swimming and Edgbaston for Field Hockey. We hardly had enough room to hold Assemblies and had to open the moveable classrooms walls to get everyone in. I don't think my parents considered the fact that we had no sports facilities at the school itself at all important back in 1953.

 

[Peter Walker]

A nice picture, but its a pity that the backsides of the Midland Red buses had been interfered with, so to speak, in the early 50s. I thought all the FEDDs lost so much of their character when the bodies were messed about, but I'm sure some patching up and strengthening was necessary, As for the Guy, I wouldn't give a penny for it, but the firm did a great job in its time, and they deserve a lot of credit for producing so many of these utility buses in incredibly hard times, and going further into the early post war period, too.
I only saw two on their sides when less than two years old - GHA 886 in a back garden off the Aldridge Road in Perry Barr in 1943 (Route 113), and one of the Leicester GHA 920s in a front garden off the Coundon Road in Coventry (route X68, I think August Bank Holiday Monday, 1944, but I may be wrong).
Peter

 

[Phil]

A nice photo in its own right. but mike it might help to allay any lingering doubt you have over your post card of the same view. This was taken c1957.

Phil

 

[RobertS]

Cadeau

The building in Cannon Hill looks like the 'Sons of Rest' up the slope from where the resited pub was placed. When I was a small child 1950's, we would hang around there. Occasionally one of the old men would give us a few pence to go and buy something for them.

 

[Stitcher]

1922 or thereabouts. Longbridge Lane Northfield near to the site of the ralway station.

 

[Phil]

This is another one of my favourite markets area photo's. Who could not think that was Sir Bernard Miles walking towards the camera outside the fish market in Bell St.

Phil

 

[Peter Walker]

Lovely picture. Natty wellies, too.
Peter

 

[Sakura]

Great photo Phil, that really is how I remember it. Mo

 

[motorman-mike]

Thanks again, Phil ....and at the markets, isn't that the back of a Ford V8 Pilot as well - now there was a car!
Mike

 

[welder]

I believe the big doors from king edwards are gates for a old house in water orton now in the older part of the village
colin

No longer, unfortunately. Wakefield House in Old Church Road had, until very recently, the old entrance doors from King Edwards School as a pair of gates at one end of the property.
They're gone now although, it has to be said, they were in very poor nick!

Ian

 

[Stitcher]

Cadeau, heres one for you. Outside The Three Horshoes Sheldon.
About 1900 and its the Sheldon cycling club.

 

[john knight]

Here's a few from a site selling old postcards of Birmingham

 

[john knight]

and a few more..

 

[Graham]

Cadeau, heres one for you. Outside The Three Horshoes Sheldon.

Thanks Trev, I'm standing 4th from the left with my 1st bike. lol

 

[Sakura]

John - I wonder when the Corporation Street one was. The bus looks modern and yet the cloths look quite long on some of the women. Mo

 

[john knight]

Hello,
I would say the late 40's, but perhaps one of our learned transport bods can tell us.
Here's another few ...

 

[john knight]

And the last....

 

[Lloyd]

John - I wonder when the Corporation Street one was. The bus looks modern and yet the cloths look quite long on some of the women. Mo

The view is blurred, but it's a 1930's bus - either one of the AEC Regents of 1930-1 or the Daimlers of 1932-7 as it's fleet number on the rear panel is only three digits, and bus 1000 was delivered in 1937.
Certainly a pre-war shot, the lights hung across the road were reduced to one per wire for a while after the war.

 

[OtherHalf]

Thanks Trev, I'm standing 4th from the left with my 1st bike. lol

was that in your training days graham?LOL

 

[Stitcher]

This is a view of Smithfield Market looking from Bradford St. Early thirties.

 

[BazzM]

John. Some cracking shots there. I love seeing things like this. If you have any more, please keep posting them. Thanks, Barry.

 

[OtherHalf]

all the pictures are gems and as Barry says keep em coming if only for the people outside of brum who might not be able to get them via other sources books mags etc and the odd postcard image? aquired GREAT

 

[Stitcher]

About 1855-65. The Original Gate Pub at Saltly. Where this pub stands was to become High Street.