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Steelhouse Lane 1880

  • Thread starter Thread starter harborne
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The building with the name over the door , just behind the cart must be
No 142 , which is listed in the 1880 directory as :
Clarke John Huband. wholesale. grocer.
Possibly the Shop was Clarke and Huband, giving the sign as shown . this makes it the red building on the map, near Snow hill..Weaman st is off-picture to the right and Slaney St is to the left of the adjoining no 143, which is not listed.
Mike
 
Everything looks so clean, doesn't it. Thanks for the map, Mike.

Harborne
 
Steelhouse Lane picture from Dent's 1880 book Old & New Birmingham.
Griffiths, in his 1861 book History of the Free Schools described how a school was built of wood in Steelhouse Lane on the site of the old workhouse. The people of the Town Mission, concerned by the "squalid poverty, inveterate drunkeness, unblushing profanity & disgusting vice" at the back of Dale End & Stafford St sought to introuduce literacy through the school. Those attended were all, bar 2, over 16 yrs and predominantly middle aged. They included lodging house keepers, beggars, street musicians, hawkers, labourers, reformed drunkards & females reclaimed from vice. Twenty couples, were persuaded to marry rather than live together as man & wife.
 
Shirley
If you go to https://www.british-history.ac.uk/m...d=10098&ox=1828&oy=531&zm=1&czm=1&x=480&y=230 and look at steelhouse lane, then on the south side between upper priory st and Newton st there is a public house. This is the Queens Head, and court 1 is just after this. So the queens head must be behind the artist on his right, and the building on the right is either the Ebeneezer Independent chapel day school for girls or the chapel itself (info from 1868 directory)
Mike
 
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