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The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 8
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1. Newhall Street
Cornwall Buildings is over the road with the first flag pole, and is where on the second floor, in my third job, I worked for three years for New Zealand Distributors (UK) Ltd. as an export merchant's clerk. Very enjoyable job but appalling wages! I worked there for a week for less than the
weekday hourly rate of my last job.
2. Newhall Street at the junction with Cornwall Street. Taken from NZD's second floor window at No. 45
3. Newhall Street's junction with Great Charles Street, which later became a dual carriageway. Taken from NZD's second floor window at No. 45.
Cornwall Buildings is over the road with the first flag pole, and is where on the second floor, in my third job, I worked for three years for New Zealand Distributors (UK) Ltd. as an export merchant's clerk. Very enjoyable job but appalling wages! I worked there for a week for less than the
weekday hourly rate of my last job.
2. Newhall Street at the junction with Cornwall Street. Taken from NZD's second floor window at No. 45
3. Newhall Street's junction with Great Charles Street, which later became a dual carriageway. Taken from NZD's second floor window at No. 45.
5. Ariel V-Twin
on the VMCC run in Newhall Street Another loss to Newhall Street. The Vintage Motor Cycle Club held an annual Tour of Birmingham, where a hundred or more nice old bikes travelled round the Outer Circle, stopping at strategic points ...er pubs, and then lined up for inspection in Newhall Street outside the Science Museum. I didn't hear what caused the demise of this delightful event, but looking at the succession of rotten councils Birmingham has had since the 1950s, I can imagine Photographed in Newhall Street was this unusual Ariel V-twin. This Birmingham firm made a range of good motorcycles until they were bought up by BSA and their vastly superior designs were stifled
on the VMCC run in Newhall Street Another loss to Newhall Street. The Vintage Motor Cycle Club held an annual Tour of Birmingham, where a hundred or more nice old bikes travelled round the Outer Circle, stopping at strategic points ...er pubs, and then lined up for inspection in Newhall Street outside the Science Museum. I didn't hear what caused the demise of this delightful event, but looking at the succession of rotten councils Birmingham has had since the 1950s, I can imagine Photographed in Newhall Street was this unusual Ariel V-twin. This Birmingham firm made a range of good motorcycles until they were bought up by BSA and their vastly superior designs were stifled
17. St Peters Place
Also visible in the background in the photograph of the antique shop, this once grand house awaits destruction.
18. St Peters Place That's Broad Street in the distance - and the fabulous stationery shop where I bought my first artists quality watercolour paintbox.
19. St Peters Place Below is the wheel that had been glazed as a window.
20. St Peters Place Here's a closer look.
21. St Peters Place That's the white bicycle that I bought from a shop in Stourport-on-Severn. No, I didn't ride it home - I was driving the firm's van at the time.
Also visible in the background in the photograph of the antique shop, this once grand house awaits destruction.
18. St Peters Place That's Broad Street in the distance - and the fabulous stationery shop where I bought my first artists quality watercolour paintbox.
19. St Peters Place Below is the wheel that had been glazed as a window.
20. St Peters Place Here's a closer look.
21. St Peters Place That's the white bicycle that I bought from a shop in Stourport-on-Severn. No, I didn't ride it home - I was driving the firm's van at the time.
23. Burlington Passage
At the back of Hudson's bookshop in New Street, this alley later became a covered shopping arcade. In the background is an Austin A35 van, one of the most ubiquitous vehicles of the time and it seemed as though hardly a fortnight passed without seeing one of them overturned or crashed into a tree. It was doomed to be later replaced by the Minivan.
At the back of Hudson's bookshop in New Street, this alley later became a covered shopping arcade. In the background is an Austin A35 van, one of the most ubiquitous vehicles of the time and it seemed as though hardly a fortnight passed without seeing one of them overturned or crashed into a tree. It was doomed to be later replaced by the Minivan.
30. Lewis's illuminations
A much missed store, Lewis's, where my second job after leaving school was as a trainee chef on their sixth floor - for a day and a half, when I caught 'flu and Lewis's sat me in a wheelchair, took me down the goods lift and sent me home in a taxi. After I recovered, I couldn't stand the smell of cooking and had to resign because they didn't want me for anything else.
A much missed store, Lewis's, where my second job after leaving school was as a trainee chef on their sixth floor - for a day and a half, when I caught 'flu and Lewis's sat me in a wheelchair, took me down the goods lift and sent me home in a taxi. After I recovered, I couldn't stand the smell of cooking and had to resign because they didn't want me for anything else.
