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the building of castle vale

Astoness

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this one is of castle vale being built in the 60s..castle bromwich airdrome would have been here...

lyn

pic courtesy of carl chinn
 
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Astoness said:
this one is of castle vale being built in the 60s..bromford racecourse would have been here...

lyn

pic courtesy of carl chinn
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You mean Castle bromwich airdrome.
Bromford estate was Bromford racecouse.
Get it right woman !!
 
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morning chris...caption says..this is where bromford bridge racecourse was....thanks for correcting it i will edit it....

lyn
 
I can't see myself, I worked on that place.
Me and me Dad done the underpasses, which have all been filled in now.
 
Well Frothblower, you weren't the only one. For a holliday job as students, me and my two friend worked on the site. We were employed by one of the finishing teams on some of the smaller flats, cleaning the tiles on the exterior walls. To get from one flat to the other we had to walk with our equipment from roof to roof across planks, (Health and safety issues were kept in proportion then); well, actually we edged our way across on hands and knees. While we worked cleaning the already clean and sparkling tiles, our foreman sat in his shed reading the paper, smoking and doing other similar important jobs. The three of us worked identical hours and did identical tasks. At the end of the week we all received a different wage. We did not complain, we simply asked why and we were simply given the sack.
We then borrowed my brother-in-laws ladder and tried to clean windows by going door to door in Smallheath. We gave that up after the first day of failure.
Happily we found work at Wimbushes but there wasn't much dough in that job.
 
great memories mike....hope you are well and its good to see you posting again...

lyn
 
Mike your post did make me laugh especially when you said 'you simply asked and were simply given the sack' then it was onto the next job!!
 
Castle Vale Estate. Len.





Chivenor House.


Castle Vale was a major housing estate in Birmingham, England, consisting of 34 tower blocks. Approved in stages between 1964 and 1968, Castle Vale has become one of Europe's largest urban regeneration programmes, witnessing the demolition of 32 tower blocks in the late 1990s for low rise housing and the refurbishment of two tower blocks; Topcliffe House and Chivenor House.
Castle Vale had 27 maisonette blocks, one 20 storey tower, Concorde Tower, and nine 16 storey towers:

Eight of the 16 storey towers were known as the Centre 8 and were two rows of tower blocks.
List of tower blocks
 
I was keeping an eye on you all in the the flats doing the wiring. before that we played football on there the dressing rooms were on the Chester Rd if you drew a pitch up by Minworh it took half an hour to get there you were worn out before you started. Dek
 
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