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Then & Now

There is something in the sky below the lower bough if the tree on the left. Might be aircraft or a blemished photo. :D However the reason I presumed he overhead was there was because the support poles looked like they were also there.
 
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Moving further along the Birmingham Road into Sutton Coldfield passing "The Cup" now renamed "the Kitchen & Brewhouse"

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It's a ladies day out at the Manor Arms on the corner of Cato Street and Duddeston Mill Road. Wearing their best hats they pose for a photo and the pub landlord looks dapper with his bow tie and expandable arm bands for his shirt sleeves.
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And now ...
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Another case of so called progress to the detriment of the area,Catco St and Duddeson Mill Rd.
Look at that rubbish, why doesn't the council pick up litter anymore. I'm sure they get more in rates from us now as a percentage of income! but they provided a better service in the olden days. Mind people had more of a civic pride in the past. Grrrrrrrrr :mad:
 
Photographer not much help with date, as he was at 108 Bloomsbury st as picture framemaker in 1921 & 1923 and photographer 1932 till at least 1940
 
Radiorails said:
The old photo of the outing was posted before on 1/8/2012. Not much info about it but the original has a name, presumably of the photographer(s). It reads Frank Ellis, Bloomsbury Street.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/motor-buses-omnibuses.39267/#post-457242
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Yes I had seen it and looked at it and there is also one in the 'Pubs of the Past' here
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/pubs-of-the-past.34394/page-42#post-601877
The image I posted was for sale in the postcard section of eBay and the Ellis watermark had presumably been removed by the seller.
 
Notice all Women wore hats (#399) and men boasted moustaches (#384), how times change, although beards seem more common nowadays than they used to. Eric
 
The same pub, looking like it did not long before demolition if I remember correctly though it was a pub I never used.

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Not sure if it is the same person but Frank Ellis is listed in 1912 Kelly's at 108 and 243 Bloomsbury Street as a Picture frame Maker. In 1921 he is only listed at 108.
 
Sorry Mike for some reason I did not see your earlier post about the photographer so feel free to delete the above.
 
First of a set of four lych gates sketched by George Beresford for the Birmingham Daily Post of March 1969. This one is Moseley Parish Church.

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Present Google Earth...
https://earth.app.goo.gl/wHWGz
 

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A sad 'Then and Now' ...
On 27th July 1942 the last significant air raid on Birmingham occurred when 60 bombers attacked the city. During the raid a semi-detached house at 155/157 Gillott Road received a direct hit killing a married couple living at 157. See info from 'Barra' below. The house next door (No 153) with the decorative corner brickwork lost roof-tiles and windows but remained standing. The house across the road received blast damage.
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House No 153 today ... the decorative corner brickwork visible but one window has been bricked up.
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The house across the road ... the garage has been converted to a living room.
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A Google aerial view shows No 153 with the corner brickwork, and the house opposite and a new semi Nos 155/157. (some computer 3d errors in this pic)
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A page from the Birmingham Air Raids Remembrance Association https://secure.swanshurst.org/barra/results.asp
If the above link does not work try the following
http://barra.historynut.co.uk/
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Then
Gas Street 1935 and there was a fire at Cardall's Timber & Joinery Co, Saw Mill.
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image from 'britainfromabove'
Now
Some buildings still exist
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image from Apple maps
 
A typical 1930s row of shops in Station Road, Marston Green and I could not resist typing 'Pullars Perth' in Google ....:)
As it was in the 1930s
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As it was in 2012
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As it is now in 2018
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I wonder what the posts outside the butchery (cold meats?) shop protected. The concreted base must have had regular use.
 
A nice view of tree lined Linden Road Bournville in the 1920s. The Carillon Tower in the distance.
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Still tree lined today
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An aerial view of the area taken in 1928. The Carillon Tower on the left with Bournville Lane crossing Linden Road on the right and the Cadbury factory.
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An aerial view now and the Carillon Tower has changed and changes at Cadburys.
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images from 'britainfromabove', Google and Apple.
 
A leafy College Road in Moseley. All the houses in this photo survive today including the one just visible through the trees.
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College Road today and a post box still in the road but moved from where it was in the old photo.
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A pity some gardens , even if the were small, have gone from the houses on the right of the photo. It cheapens the appearance of the street.
 
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