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Post 37 has a photo - there are more similar in the thread - shows a large hoarding describing National Savings - 'Give Thanks' with a target of £12,000,000.
Other large collections have taken lace in the city in the past, usually associated with warfare.
There was a 'Tank Week' towards the latter part of WW1 which had banners on the Town Hall. A photo exits on the Forum. The exhortation to win was so that the city beat Liverpool and Manchester. I don't know the outcome but I am sure the city was not No.1.
Another event was Warship Week which was held, throughout the Kingdom, in 1941 and 1942. This badge can be seen at the Think Tank.
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There were lots more during WW2.
 
No idea where the lost property office would have been on Steelhouse Lane. At the police station perhaps ? Viv.

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Ah, Newton Street, that's the next road up. I have this very vague memory of my mom going there once.
 
I'm more confused now. Attaching 1937 map which shows Newton Street, Victoria Law Courts, Coleridge Passage and then the Police station. If I am reading correctly then it is one building. Is it in the same order? I think the "lock-up" and "Law Courts" should be the opposite way round in Kelly's? Also note the Police station has several doors into it so presumably these led to different depts. Steve might know.
Second map is 1952 as it shows the juvenile Court. Other online maps are of a less helpful scale.
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i thought this name had come up before
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Probably did as the thread is over ten years old! :D Posts referred to from the earlier thread have now been merged into this one Steelhouse Lane thread. Paternoster lift references have now been moved to the Paternoster Lift thread here
Erebus555....You are probably right that the city won't redevelop the
Dental Hospital...bottom line...the cost. Here is a link about the proposal for redevelopment but not at that site, in Selly Oak with outreach clinics in Stoke and Coventry. It's not good news since the place is bursting at the seams.
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any one know what shops were along the lane, on the side of the hospital. 1n the 40s/50.



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In 1960, I worked part time from school at Lincoln Jeffries gun shop which had the zebra crossing right outside the door. There were a couple of gun shops further up and I remember W. Pond hardware shop. I seem to remember an Indian restaurant which had a smell we were not accustomed to in those days. There was also a pub on the corner of Weaman St.
 

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In 1960, I worked part time from school at Lincoln Jeffries gun shop which had the zebra crossing right outside the door. There were a couple of gun shops further up and I remember W. Pond hardware shop. I seem to remember an Indian restaurant which had a smell we were not accustomed to in those days. There was also a pub on the corner of Weaman St.
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very well done,bango.i thought there was some gun shops. but not sure. thanks alot
 
I started work in January 1967 at a solicitors office in Fountain Court, Steelhouse lane. I worked there for about 5 years. As I was the Office Junior I had to deliver and pick up documents from both the Law Court and the County Court so I walked many times up Newton Street to the courts in Corporation Street.

On the opposite side of Fountain Court was the Barrister's Chambers. Mr Jenkins, the caretaker, lived at the top of the building in a small flat.

The Birmingham Post and Mail building was next door to us on one side and the General Hospital on the other. At least both the buildings of Fountain Court and the old General at still standing!
 
Presumably Richards & Goodings sold out to Edward Grey.
Something wrong with that tram!! Always double deckers and incorrect angle.
 
I am making up a scrapbook on my family history and have browsed through some wonderful photos and information on the Then and Now streets & roads of Birmingham. Steelhouse Lane in 1853 is an address on a marriage certificate and the person I am researching is Charles Nightengale (could be Nightingale), Brickmaker. No house number. I wondered if you could help shed some light on what buildings were on Steelhouse Lane during the period around 1853 and would the Post Office Directory have his name listed 1852/3. A view of Steelhouse Lane on a map around 1853 would help reflect any information.
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The only nightingales in the1849 PO directory were:
NIghthgule Mrs. Elizabeth, shopkeeper, 86 Edmnnd street
Nlglltingale Thomus, beer retailer, 51 Buckinghain street
There were none listed in the 1855 edition
Afraid there are no maps showing individual buildings in that period.
 
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Mickymoo seems odd to have a snooker hall in the Ebenezer building!

Thanks Mike for the info and photos. There was an Ebenezer Chapel in Steelhouse Lane too, which I assume, must have been connected to that building. The London Gazette reported in 1931 on a trustees application for provision of sale regarding the Ebenezer Chapel and all it's connected building/land. Sounds fairly substantial too.

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And it had a role in anti-slavery; hosting the anniversary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in June 1846:

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There is a report of the annual meeting of the Birmingham Auxiliary of the anti-slavery Society in the Birmingham Journal on the 4th July 1846. The eloquent ‘American Slave’ Frederick Douglass addressed the meeting at the Ebenezer Chapel, Steelhouse Lane.

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Frederick features in the BBC programme Black and British: A Forgotten History (3 Moral Mission) from 2016. A plaque to his memory is unvailed in Dundee where he spoke in January 1846

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In part three of this groundbreaking series, historian David Olusoga explores the Victorian moral crusade against slavery.
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suemalings said:
I started work in January 1967 at a solicitors office in Fountain Court, Steelhouse lane. I worked there for about 5 years. As I was the Office Junior I had to deliver and pick up documents from both the Law Court and the County Court so I walked many times up Newton Street to the courts in Corporation Street.

On the opposite side of Fountain Court was the Barrister's Chambers. Mr Jenkins, the caretaker, lived at the top of the building in a small flat.

The Birmingham Post and Mail building was next door to us on one side and the General Hospital on the other. At least both the buildings of Fountain Court and the old General at still standing!
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Hi Sue, I have just been reading the Steelhouse Lane thread and came across your post. We have been in contact before re Gopsal Street and The Eagle and Ball pub. It made my day when I saw your post. I started temping just after I got married, 1969, for the SOS Temping Agency based in the Rotunda. One of my contracts was at the Birmingham Post & Mail. It was a great place to work, lovely friendly staff and enjoyable work. I was there for about six months. What I would like to ask you, is do you remember my dad at all? He had a kiosk, papers, sweets, magazines etc. He was based outside a Law firm, on the corner of Steelhouse Lane. He used to park his car outside the Gaumont, with permission of course. He was there for about twenty years. I realise this is a long shot but I couldn’t resist asking you. Kind regards, Sue
 
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I have to say I cannot remember your dad, although I seem to remember there was a newspaper seller somewhere there, but remember there used to be a lot of newspaper sellers around the city. I used to have to go to the Post Office, over road to get the franking machine filled. Then there was the Bank (Lloyds I think) and also Cranes music shop where I would by my LP's sometimes. Further down was Prana, their cafe upstairs sold the most delicious baked apples with cream! I still have a small ornament of a frog I bought from Prana, must have been about 50 years ago now. At the front of Fountain Court, the first shop on the right was a wonderful place that sold sandwiches and amazing hot sausage rolls. On the left was a small tobacconist, it might have been Preedy's. All they sold were cigarettes. On the corner of Fountain Court and Whittall Street was a dry cleaners. I used to drop my Wrangler jeans off in the morning and they would have them ready for my the same day.
 
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My Dad was a mounted policeman for 30 years and often would patrol out of Steelhouse Lane police station, not Dad's horse's favourite station, due to the cobbled streets in that area, especially when wet. Dad's horse Trigger slipped and went down with Dad's styrup trapped between the horse and Dad's ankle, resulting in s snapped ankle bone. I remember Dad saying they took him over to the Accident hospital, and the Irish Sister asked Dad if his boots were his or part of his uniform; when informed part of the uniform, she took a scalpel and ran it down the line of stitching and opened his boot to allow removal.
I remember a pub behind the police station and my brother's bachelor party 45 years ago at 'Time Gentleman call. we went into the back room and continued on drinking once the bar door was shut.' Dad, still a policeman, was amazed that the publican would allow this when virtually next door to a cop shop.1618234174106.jpeg
 
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My Dad was a mounted policeman for 30 years and often would patrol out of Steelhouse Lane police station, not Dad's horse's favourite station, due to the cobbled streets in that area, especially when wet. Dad's horse Trigger slipped and went down with Dad's styrup trapped between the horse and Dad's ankle, resulting in s snapped ankle bone. I remember Dad saying they took him over to the Accident hospital, and the Irish Sister asked Dad if his boots were his or part of his uniform; when informed part of the uniform, she took a scalpel and ran it down the line of stitching and opened his boot to allow removal.
I remember a pub behind the police station and my brother's bachelor party 45 years ago at 'Time Gentleman call. we went into the back room and continued on drinking once the bar door was shut.' Dad, still a policeman, was amazed that the publican would allow this when virtually next door to a cop shop
 
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