Station Street Birmingham

[Vivienne14]

Just found another thread about Coldicutt Brothers. It gives their address as Station Street Mews. Station Street Mews refers only to the Coldicutt building. Makes sense as 'mews' in the past would refer to stables. Horses for the business were stabled on the first floor ! A more detailed discussion is on the thread link below. Copying the first post from that thread for reference below.

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/coldicutt-bros-carriages-station-street.53937.

 

[Richard Dye]

At present it is not the council who control Birmingham but "commissioners"

And what is the basis for their decision, one way or another?

 

[Richard Dye]

Just found another thread about Coldicutt Brothers. It gives their address as Station Street Mews. Copying the first post on that thread for reference here. Station Street Mews refers only to the Coldicutt building. Makes sense as 'mews' in the past would refer to stables. Horses for the business were stabled on the first floor ! A more detailed discussion is on the thread link below.

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/coldicutt-bros-carriages-station-street.53937.

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Wonderful drawings! The level of effort and skill/workmanship to do all of that by hand is incredible…..I doubt you could find someone with the skills to do that say circa 1950’s. Today is would be all CAD based.

 

[devonjim]

Wonderful drawings! The level of effort and skill/workmanship to do all of that by hand is incredible…..I doubt you could find someone with the skills to do that say circa 1950’s. Today is would be all CAD based.

My wife worked in a studio that did this type of work "by hand" until around 1970.

 

[Richard Dye]

My wife worked in a studio that did this type of work "by hand" until around 1970.

Yes, that kind of work, we called “rendering” was still done by hand into the mid 70’s when CAD systems began take over. That’s another skill along with modeling that has gone by the wayside or given way to technology.

 

[devonjim]

Yes, that kind of work, we called “rendering” was still done by hand into the mid 70’s when CAD systems began take over. That’s another skill along with modeling that has gone by the wayside or given way to technology.

She's not familiar with the "rendering" term. "Artist's impression" or "exploded view" depending on if architectural or engineering

 

[Richard Dye]

She's not familiar with the "rendering" term. "Artist's impression" or "exploded view" depending on if architectural or engineering

Would agree with that! The term rendering relates to the drawing showing the people/horses etc, artists impression. Mid 1970’s or a little later would be the end of that technology, replaced by CAD because it was faster, easy to modify and less expensive.