The Junction Inn Great Francis Street

[Astoness]

apologies if this had been posted before...

the junction pub..gt francis st...1956...ten years later this was to become the site of duddeston manor school...

 

[Astoness]

appear to have a gremlin..will try and sort it...sorry folks for some reason this pic just wont go on...

 

[dek carr]

Quick Lyn this is my patch an Atkinsons house .Dek

 

[Astoness]

hang on dek im going to try and post a different pic of it....

 

[Astoness]

ok dek..ive managed to get this one on...dated 1963

pic courtesy of carl chinn

lyn

 

[Astoness]

junction pub on the right corner dek..dated 1952

pic courtesy of carl chinn..

 

[dek carr]

Thanks Lyn i can be so impatient thats just how i remember it just passed the van is the Wooden Offices of Harris Coal from 12 till i left school i worked for them have not seen this photo before. Dek

 

[dek carr]

Lyn i think the 2nd photo has been on before the patch of ground the right is prior to the wooden office being built. Dek

 

[Astoness]

think you are right dek..i also seem to recall it...glad the first one is new to you though...will go and see if there are any more...

lyn

 

[Astoness]

have you seen this one dek...

pic courtesy of carl chinn

 

[dek carr]

Lyn your doing well this is another new one for me keep em coming that first house at the back in Bloomsbury St, a school friend of mine lived there. Dek

 

[Astoness]

thats great dek...now this is the only way i can post this one..it just wont go on at normal size so it going to be smaller than the rest...

lyn

 

[mikejee]

This seems better after trying on the testing thread

 

[Astoness]

perfect mike...god i wish i was clever like you...

cheers

lyn

 

[dek carr]

Thanks Lyn ,mike thats 4 lovely photo,s of the Junction i must have seen this pub most days of my young life and even when i went to work, as the bus stop was just across the road yet i never went inside. Dek

 

[Astoness]

glad you like them dek....as posted on another thread earlier i do regret being far too young to go into so many pubs are now demolished....must have walked past loads of them but as a kid they meant nothing to me...

lyn

 

[Phil]

Lyn

Here a couple more slightly older than the previous one, the Junction was a fine old pub that I remember well, even if I never actually drank in there.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

great pics phil...love them both.i see it was once a butlers pub...

lyn

 

[dek carr]

Two Great photos there Phil looking at the oldest one it looks like tram tracks down Bloomsbury st and nothing in Gt Franis st .Dek

 

[Vivienne14]

An old photo, sorry no date but at a time when trams were in operation here.

 

[brummy-lad]

A slightly clearer copy, I thought it strange that there were no chimney pots but think they were just washed out in the long exposure somehow.