Some survivors of Yesteryear!

[Eutrino]

I was playing around with Google Earth.....amazing program.......and thought it might be fun to use the Street View feature and compare it with my postcard collection. I found a lot of interesting matches. Here are a few. The first two are taken in Westley Rd., Acocks Green. Note the building with the 4 gables on the left. (Shame about the bus!)

 

[Eutrino]

Here is another pair. Blakesley Hall in Yardley

 

[Frothblower]

I was playing around with Google Earth.....amazing program.......and thought it might be fun to use the Street View feature and compare it with my postcard collection. I found a lot of interesting matches. Here are a few. The first two are taken in Westley Rd., Acocks Green. Note the building with the 4 gables on the left. (Shame about the bus!)

Very good Eutrino, Get some more on

 

[Eutrino]

The Railway Bridge over Slade Road in Erdington. I used to ride my motorcycle under this bridge at least once daily back in the 60's.

 

[Frothblower]

Here is another pair. Blakesley Hall in Yardley

Looks like the chimney got rebuilt

 

[Eutrino]

Yardley again, this time the Old Grammar School.

 

[Ian FOFB]

Nice one Eutrino - this could start a trend ( hopefully ).

 

[Eutrino]

Yardley once again, but these are a bit sad. I used the new Ring O Bells many times and had no idea it had been gutted! Looks like it happened a while back? What is interesting is that the house beyond the pub is still there, clearly visible in both photos.

 

[lencops]

Eutrino, Type "ring of bells" in search at the top right hand side and threads can be found with many photos, you can use search for other interests you may have, welcome to the forum. Len.

 

[lencops]

Eutrino, This is a sample of photos that can be found using search, then & now. Len.

 

[lencops]

Yardley once again, but these are a bit sad. I used the new Ring O Bells many times and had no idea it had been gutted! Looks like it happened a while back? What is interesting is that the house beyond the pub is still there, clearly visible in both photos.

Eutrino, What looks like a house beyond the pub is part of the Carmelite Convent which was next door, i will look for a photo. Len,

 

[lencops]

Eutrino, What looks like a house looking past the pub is the left hand gable of the Convent. Len. South of the church, on Church Road stands a former Carmelite Monastery, a complex of buildings once secluded behind high walls and now a Grade II Listed building. Although largely mid-19th-century in appearance, it has a 17th-century timber-framed building as its origin. Formerly a private mansion known as The Grange and home of the wealthy Hoskins family, it became a nunnery in 1937 and was converted to its present use as private housing in the 1990s.

 

[G G Jean]

#4 Eutrino went under that bridge two days ago. Jean.

 

[Eutrino]

Good one lencops....I got legless in the Ring O Bells several times when I was a kid and had no idea there was a monastery next door! Not that I would have moderated my behaviour you understand!

 

[Eutrino]

Here's a couple more. I wish Google Street View was as extensive in the UK as it is here in the USA. We have very thorough coverage, almost everywhere in urban and suburban areas. For such a major city, Brum is very poorly covered. Perhaps it will improve with time?

 

[lencops]

Good Morning Eutrino, Thanks for a super pair of views of the Town Hall. Len.

 

[Eutrino]

Here's another couple of views looking at the end of Corporation Street.

 

[Frothblower]

Another now and then. Erdington High Street.......

 

[Eutrino]

And on we go! Another pair of then and now pics at the Central Fire Station....or the West Midlands Whatever they call it nowadays!

 

[ASTONITE]

aston hall road 1930 and now

 

[ASTONITE]

aston tavern 1926 and now

 

[paul stacey]

lovely old photo's the times then looked so cosy and to day somehow threadbare garish, great to see War Lane Harborne and the Central Fire Station went round it with our school, and the Birmingham Mail Offices, and the coal pit at Black Heath, (put me off mining for life). paul

 

[glaciermint]

Not much to compare is there. I'm surprised the Tavern hasn't been torched by now it seems to have been derelict for donkeys years

Bob

 

[Eutrino]

Here is an interesting pair. Waverly Rd at the corner of Malmesbury Rd. I seem to think that was the employment office at the back. Can anyone confirm or otherwise?

 

[lencops]

Hi Eutrino, There was a Labour Exchange in Waverly Rd, were you signed on when out of work, they had job cards from employers which if they fitted your trade or experience they would send you for an interview which you could not refuse to attend or they would stop your dole pay. Len.