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St Paul's Square Hockley
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brummy-lad
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I'm not sure Lyn, I think the 2 storey building is No. 24, there is a lower buiding just about visible which could be No. 25
brummy-lad
master brummie
devonjim
master brummie
Use to go to a Chinese Restaurant called Henry's in the Square. Chef was a dab hand at carving carrots and tomatoes.
also went to a concert in the Church that featured a choir called Black Voices, my daughter tells me that concerts are sstill held in the church only recently she saw Fleetwood Mac, would that have been a tribute or the real thing?
also went to a concert in the Church that featured a choir called Black Voices, my daughter tells me that concerts are sstill held in the church only recently she saw Fleetwood Mac, would that have been a tribute or the real thing?
A Sparks
master brummie
Fleetwood Mac, the original band with Peter Green, certainly played in the area at Le Metro club in Livery Street back in the 60s, my friend and I saw them there at the Blues night they had mid week.
52 St Pauls Square
T. Pope & Co operated briefly as disc makers at Number 52 on the west side of St Pauls Square in the 1850s but it seems there was a rapid turnover:
"besides changes of business style and ownership, makers constantly changed their street addresses from one number to another and from street to street. A striking reflection of this locomotion was the occupation of one particular site successively by no fewer than five of the disc makers; viz. No. 52, St. Paul's Square (Birmingham), occupied: 1846/7-1850/1 by Samuel Hiron. His total period of activity; his local business was acquired by the next occupant. 1851 /2-1855 by T. Pope & Co. Established 1848, still operating but not now disc-makers. 1855-1860/2 by Edwin Cottrill. Continued active til11867 /8. 1861 /2-1873 by S. A. Daniell. Continued active till the 1940's but not then disc-makers. then after a lull: Within 1881-7 by Joseph Taylor & Co., ending their activity begun in 1865 or earlier." [Hawkins RNP, Minor products of British nineteenth-century die-sinking’ BNJ vol. 30 (1960-61), p184]
T. Pope & Co were responsible for manufacturing many of the merchant trade tokens used in the Australian Colonies during the mid-19th century like this copper one penny token:
( https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/80803 )
50-54 St Pauls Square is now occupied by The Rectory 180 Club
T. Pope & Co operated briefly as disc makers at Number 52 on the west side of St Pauls Square in the 1850s but it seems there was a rapid turnover:
"besides changes of business style and ownership, makers constantly changed their street addresses from one number to another and from street to street. A striking reflection of this locomotion was the occupation of one particular site successively by no fewer than five of the disc makers; viz. No. 52, St. Paul's Square (Birmingham), occupied: 1846/7-1850/1 by Samuel Hiron. His total period of activity; his local business was acquired by the next occupant. 1851 /2-1855 by T. Pope & Co. Established 1848, still operating but not now disc-makers. 1855-1860/2 by Edwin Cottrill. Continued active til11867 /8. 1861 /2-1873 by S. A. Daniell. Continued active till the 1940's but not then disc-makers. then after a lull: Within 1881-7 by Joseph Taylor & Co., ending their activity begun in 1865 or earlier." [Hawkins RNP, Minor products of British nineteenth-century die-sinking’ BNJ vol. 30 (1960-61), p184]
T. Pope & Co were responsible for manufacturing many of the merchant trade tokens used in the Australian Colonies during the mid-19th century like this copper one penny token:
( https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/80803 )
50-54 St Pauls Square is now occupied by The Rectory 180 Club
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