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Then & Now

In the Kellys of immediately before WW1 till WW2 it is marked as City of Birmingham Electrical Supply Station . On the 1950s map the right hand part with doors is a municipal sub station , with the left hand part marked as ruins
 
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“On leaving the station, visitors bound for the Lickey Hills would cross Station Road and take to the fields. This road is now known as Fiery Hill Road.”

Not sure of the date but maybe around 1915 ?
From, A Postcard from the Lickeys, by JOE & FRANCES BRANNAN (1989)

Present Google View…

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“Once the transport service with Birmingham was improved in 1926 the area was rapidly developed. Much of the farm land was sold and built upon. It remains a very busy route since it links the M5 and M42 motorways with the city.”

Two pictures from A Postcard from the Lickeys (1989) Longbridge Island.

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Google Earth view…

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“In the days before the Rubery by-pass was built, Dales bakery stood on the comer of Leach Green Lane and New Road.
A bridge forded the Callow Brook and Cock Hill Lane took its winding route over the hill to the Cock Inn.”

From A Postcard from the Lickeys (published 1989)

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“Door of 56 Newhall Street. 1901 Newton & Cheatle. Apart from the superbly detailed porches. terracotta is interspersed with brick - not just for trim. The window surrounds have terracotta 'quoins and blocks of terracotta are interchanged with brick in the gables making contrasts of colour and texture.”

Looking at Birmingham by Richardson, Anny (1994)
 
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“Door of 56 Newhall Street. 1901 Newton & Cheatle. Apart from the superbly detailed porches. terracotta is interspersed with brick - not just for trim. The window surrounds have terracotta 'quoins and blocks of terracotta are interchanged with brick in the gables making contrasts of colour and texture.”

Looking at Birmingham by Richardson, Anny (1994)
And it has stood the test of time!
 
In Nursery Road at the corner with Anglesey Street in 1953, and Persil washes whiter but Tide washes cleanest.

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The same corner now ... the bins have gone but there's a planter in the road ...
Edit correction ... it's a nice corner but it is not the one in the old pic. See posts #1865 and #1868 for explantion.
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I used to live bottom end of angelsey street till 1968 wish i could remember friends i think we lived at 174
 
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Piccadilly Arcade. New Street by Nicol and Nicol 1910, Ground Floor 1926.

“Piccadilly Arcade has a handsome Baroque façade in white and green faience. Built as a cinema in 1910 by Nicol and Nicol. Giant arch entrance, open arcade above, Wren-style tur-rets. It runs through to Stephenson Street. Bronze fascia and shopfronts of 1926 by J.R. Shaw, who made it a shopping arcade. Inside, the slope reflects the original rake of the seating. More original fronts with thin metal mullions and decorative top lights. Refurbished in 1989 by
Douglas Hickman of the John Madin Design Group with trompe l'œeil ceiling paintings by Paul Maxfield.”

Birmingham by Foster, Andy (Publication date 2005)


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And now the Google view, of the Stephenson Street entrance.

Edit...Mickymoo's picture in Post 1947 shows the present picture of the New Street entrance
 
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Piccadilly Arcade. New Street by Nicol and Nicol 1910, Ground Floor 1926.

“Piccadilly Arcade has a handsome Baroque façade in white and green faience. Built as a cinema in 1910 by Nicol and Nicol. Giant arch entrance, open arcade above, Wren-style tur-rets. It runs through to Stephenson Street. Bronze fascia and shopfronts of 1926 by J.R. Shaw, who made it a shopping arcade. Inside, the slope reflects the original rake of the seating. More original fronts with thin metal mullions and decorative top lights. Refurbished in 1989 by
Douglas Hickman of the John Madin Design Group with trompe l'œeil ceiling paintings by Paul Maxfield.”

Birmingham by Foster, Andy (Publication date 2005)


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And now the Google view, a shadow of its former self…
This is the New Street entrance,picture taken in April 2022..

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