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Then & Now
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paul stacey
master brummie
some really great photo's, you can see the changes through about 120 years, the modern ones still seem soul less to me. Paul
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
By all means, they are not mine. I would like to think that as these pictures appeared in the papers they would be in the public domain!
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
Three photos of the College Rd at the junction with Moor Lane and Crossways Lane. When I was a young apprentice at a company in Witton, I use to cycle to work over this junction once in the morning, then back home and to work in the lunch hour and then home in the evening, 12 miles per day ... I was fit then !
Pic 1 possibly 1920s
Pic 2 possibly 1930s, the Poplar tree in Pic 1 has gone to make way for the dual carriageway.
Pic 3 today, most of the houses in the earlier pics are still there and more trees.
Pic 1 possibly 1920s
Pic 2 possibly 1930s, the Poplar tree in Pic 1 has gone to make way for the dual carriageway.
Pic 3 today, most of the houses in the earlier pics are still there and more trees.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
Those gas lamps in pic 2, I've climbed a few of them 
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
Hi Eric, probably like the lad in a pic in this postThose gas lamps in pic 2, I've climbed a few of them
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...our-old-street-pics.41947/page-37#post-507860
oldmohawk ...
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
Mostly Moor Lane but sometimes going home at the end of work along the canal towpath. One evening with a workmate following me I heard a loud splash ... he had fallen into the canal.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Put a few photos taken about 12 years ago of the Tame Valley Canal between Brookvale Road and College Road.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145391494@N03/albums/72157674016469614
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
Thanks Pedrocut ... I'm a bit off topic, but I looked at your photo of the Harbour Inn at Arley and it brought back memories of playing in it's garden during my first ever holiday which I posted about here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ere-was-your-first-holiday.25590/#post-230680
oldmohawk
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Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Phil,
Thank you for that. The cinemas of my childhood, particularly the Rialto, and many's a time I've stood outside when an 'A' film was showing, asking the adults "Will you take us in please, mister?". We struck lucky quite often!
Both lovely buildings and the wretched supermarkets didn't attempt a conversion on either one, just knocked them down and offered a couple of their ugly blockhouse buildings instead, take it or leave it. I hate supermarkets!
Maurice
Thank you for that. The cinemas of my childhood, particularly the Rialto, and many's a time I've stood outside when an 'A' film was showing, asking the adults "Will you take us in please, mister?". We struck lucky quite often!
Both lovely buildings and the wretched supermarkets didn't attempt a conversion on either one, just knocked them down and offered a couple of their ugly blockhouse buildings instead, take it or leave it. I hate supermarkets!
Maurice
farmerdave
master brummie
The Rialto was very close to where I lived and I used to go walk past it when I went to York Road School. They had an organist there for many years and his name was Harold Shepherd. Remember seeing all the well-known post-war films at the Rialto such as The Cruel Sea, The Wooden Horse, The Dambusters, Reach for the Sky etc. My favourite film seen there was Genevieve, which I still watch regularly today. There were a few shops between the Rialto and Cubley Road including Willmotts (the sports outfitters), a photography shop and an ironmongers. Dave.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Maurice
This should please you, the Plaza at Stockland Green it went from a cinema to a supermarket and then back to the entertainment industry as a Bingo Hall, well at least its still standing.
Just look at that queue outside when it was a cinema, I can remember when every cinema had queues outside like that especially at weekends.
This should please you, the Plaza at Stockland Green it went from a cinema to a supermarket and then back to the entertainment industry as a Bingo Hall, well at least its still standing.
Just look at that queue outside when it was a cinema, I can remember when every cinema had queues outside like that especially at weekends.
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norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Absolutely agree with Maurice and Dave.
Beautiful buildings, great films. I remember them all. Would often visit the Robin Hood and the Rialto, and the crowds, as per Phil's lovely photograph.
They may destroy lovely buildings, but they cannot destroy lovely memories.
Eddie
Beautiful buildings, great films. I remember them all. Would often visit the Robin Hood and the Rialto, and the crowds, as per Phil's lovely photograph.
They may destroy lovely buildings, but they cannot destroy lovely memories.
Eddie
i was parked outside that cinema yesterday...nice building ..i have played bingo in there a few times..
lyn
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Another positive thought about Stockland Green - they have re-built the Co-op next door and it opened for business last year.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
A couple of images of Bordesley Green, one is the police station & fire station now a hostel & commercial premises the other the junction of Bordesley Green & Bordesley Green Road which can only be described today as a mess.
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sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Phil,
I remember many years ago when the Planning Dept used to do their job and would issue orders to clear up these untidy sites, but that doesn't seem to happen now, unless you pile heaps of rubbish on your front garden and enough aggravated neighbours pile on the pressure after ten years for them to do something about it. At least the previous building had some artistic merit. Perhaps the local residents don't care?
Maurice
I remember many years ago when the Planning Dept used to do their job and would issue orders to clear up these untidy sites, but that doesn't seem to happen now, unless you pile heaps of rubbish on your front garden and enough aggravated neighbours pile on the pressure after ten years for them to do something about it. At least the previous building had some artistic merit. Perhaps the local residents don't care?
Maurice
