The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 14

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The Keith Berry Photo Archive. Page 14

Selection of photos Aston, Witton, Handsworth, Perry Barr, and Erdington.

Aston and Witton

 

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1.Alma Street 2006

 

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2.Aston Tavern 2005

 

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3.Bevington Road 2006

This building at the end contained the ovens of a bakery.

 

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4.Birchfield Road

 

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5.Brantley Rd 2007

This is our first significant snowfall for several years, which is why such a light covering caused such disruption to just about everything – England has so little snow nowadays that everyone has forgotten how to cope with it!

 

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6.Brantley Rd 2007

 

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7.Brookvale Road 2004

Note the missing rails at the extreme lower left. I first noticed the gap around 2003 and I'm surprised not to have heard of anyone falling through it onto the riverbank about 12 feet below

 

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8.Fentham Road 2004

 

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9.Fentham Road 2007

 

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10.Freer Road

This was Edna Jones' grocery shop at the junction with Fentham Road.

 

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11.Freer Road 2007

When I was a child, this was Mrs Oaten's haberdashery and toy shop with a large window that curved gracefully round the corner.

 

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12.Freer Road

At the top of the road, approaching Hampton Road.

 

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13.Green workshop. Witton 2001

 

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14.Holford Industrial Estate 1985

building a replacement bridge over the River Tame

 

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15.King Edward VI Grammar School 2006

I attended there from around 1952 to 1956 but its appearance has changed a lot since then. The windows at extreme left and extreme right are as I remember them, those additions in between seem to belong to an Alpine village. The neighbouring houses have been demolished, and railings added for a Colditz Castle effect. Ugh! Just another part of Birmingham's ongoing uglification I suppose.

 

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16.Ozzie Osbourne lived here

The house with the blue paintwork is No. 14, Lodge Road, Aston, Birmingham, a former home of Ozzie Osbourne of Black Sabbath fame.

 

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17.Tame Road 2006

 

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18.Tame Road shops 2003

Grilles on local shop windows - a sign of the times

 

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19.Tame Road 2006

 

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20.Tame Road 2006

 

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21.Tame Road 2005

 

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22.Under Witton Railway Bridge 2005

 

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23.Whitehead Road 2006

 

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24.Whitehead Road 2006

 

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25.Witton Locks 1990s

 

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26.Fire behind Witton Locks 1986

 

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27.Witton Road 2005

Taken from The Broadway with the junction with Bevington Road at extreme right.

 

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28.Witton Road 2005

 

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29.Witton Road 2005