The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 8

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39. Colmore Row

Looking towards Bull Street.

 

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40. Livery Street

Viewed from Colmore Row. The original length of this street is reflected in the phrase "with a face as long as Livery Street." It was much longer before it was cut through by the Queensway. (I read somewhere that City Road is Birmingham's longest street.)

 

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41. Piccadilly Arcade

entrance in Navigation Street. We used to call this junction 'Hornton's Corner.'



42. Piccadilly Arcade entrance ... a closer view.

 

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43. Bearwood Road

near its junction with Sandon Road.



44. Bearwood Road The reverse view of the previous photo. The junction with Three Shires Oak Road and "The Bear" public house are visible.

 

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45. Harborne

 

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46. Serpentine Road

 

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47. Sheds/wash houses Harborne

 

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48. The Old Grammar School

Kings Norton, Birmingham Some of Birmingham's very few still surviving halftimbered buildings.

 

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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

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The VMCC is still going.