The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 7

[Morturn]

48. Newhall Street

 

[Vivienne14]

42. Kingston Row

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This is one of those places that I'd fully expected to have disappeared. Both Keith Berry and Phyllis Nicklin photographed it so I expect they too thought it's days were numbered. But these buildings still stand today.

Morturn drew our attention to it some time ago as part of the Grid Project - see link https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/building-preservation.48503

Some more recent views (and a lovely example of the cobbled street leading towards the buildings)

 

[lmr3103]

Thanks for posting these Morturn. They’re a fascinating glimpse of the changing city.

 

[adap2it]

20. Newtown

From the car park of the old Newtown Shopping Centre towards Miller Street. The car pulling out into the main road is an Austin A40 (the same engine and chassis as the famous Morris Minor 1000). I learned to drive in one of those.

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I'm very familiar with this view, although the cars and high rise buildings in the background suggest a much later time than when I lived there. This would have been taken where the old market stood with Richards the pork butchers on the left running up to Aston Brook St.
Dave A

 

[Astoness]

I'm very familiar with this view, although the cars and high rise buildings in the background suggest a much later time than when I lived there. This would have been taken where the old market stood with Richards the pork butchers on the left running up to Aston Brook St.
Dave A

hi dave..think its bracebridge st running to the right...my auntie else lived there in the 60/70s

lyn

 

[A Sparks]

This is one of those places that I'd fully expected to have disappeared. Both Keith Berry and Phyllis Nicklin photographed it so I expect they too thought it's days were numbered. But these buildings still stand today.

Morturn drew our attention to it some time ago as part of the Grid Project - see link https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/building-preservation.48503

Some more recent views (and a lovely example of the cobbled street leading towards the buildings)

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I was actually offered a job with the British Waterways Board (now the Canal and River Trust) working in that building in Kingston Row but I didn't take it as I was offered something better at the same time!
Nice to see the old buildings are still there!

Thanks so much for posting all the great photos Morturn, they bring back many memories.