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They Were Caught In Our Old Street Pics...

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We had a Morris Cowley when I was a child with "those indicators". If Dad drove fast we had to bash the door pillars from inside to knock them out...ha ha Funny what brings back a memorie.
 
Three policemen on crowd control duty when Acocks Green Library opened on 14th June 1932. The outer 'fortifications' with large brick pillars and iron fences are impressive but rather ugly. Lots of hats being worn on a sunny June day.

 
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Three policemen on crowd control duty when Acocks Green Library opened on 14th June 1932. The outer 'fortifications' with large brick pillars and iron fences are impressive but rather ugly. Lots of hats being worn on a sunny June day.

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Is that the Black Maria parked outside just in case all these Jane Austen readers got too agitated about getting in?
 
'Scuse me, but us Jane Austen fans are most unlikely to be in need of a black Mariah. We're too busy looking for a suitable husband (with a fortune, of course).It wouldn't do to be showing unseemly behaviour in public now would it? Ha, ha. Viv.
 
Needlework both plain and ornamental is an absorbing pastime Sir. I am currently attaching a new ribbon to my old bonnet. With that and reading aloud our novels, we have such little time for anything else ......... Lady V.

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Whomsoever did the pointing was good too. Maybe it was my family? They were at large in Brum building things of note. Not that they passed their skills down to me. Good day my lady Vivienne I shall call upon thee on the morrow should I have your mother's permission.
 
Although Jane lived mainly in the country I think she would have been quite happy with this scene in Sherborne Rd Acocks Green c1910. Looks like Sunday morning with those folks probably on their way to church, just look at those elegant hats and dresses.

 
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Thanks to Google Street View we can look at the house on the right today. Part of the garden wall and the decorative roof gutter board are still there.
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Hi Paul - I've often wondered about it. The Google photo is looking back from their car on the other side of the road. I'm not familiar with Acocks Green and it took me some time to find today's photo. I was surprised how close it was to the railway station but should have had a clue from the top left of the old pic. A photo of the railway station is in an earlier post in the thread where the girl is standing, to see it click on the pic below .... Richie commented about her too !
 
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I've seen the Google Street View camera car on several occasions when driving and later looked to see if it had taken my pic, but I've never been caught in in a Street View pic.
 
I love old photos like old glass in windows. We have a few left. Less stark and less perfect. Nice lamp on photo too. What would have been the road surfaca it looks textured?
 
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I've seen the Google Street View camera car on several occasions when driving and later looked to see if it had taken my pic, but I've never been caught in in a Street View pic.
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We got caught in a publicity photo in olde worlde Spon St Cov. The newspaper photographer at the paper where I worked took it. The reps used to joke that he never took a photo with people on it which went down well as the photos were for shopping area usually. But he used to go at 6am in the morning. We weren't up that early though. Also the lady with me looked like my colleague and I was pressed to convince them it wasn't her. Raised a chuckle at the time.
 
The old black and white photos always seem full of character dont they.

In the Acocks Green pic - across the road I am guessing that the Barclays Bank (today) building must have been built in modern times.
I know the Acocks Green island has been there for ages - and happy to say its still maintained very well.
 
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The old black and white photos always seem full of character dont they.

In the Acocks Green pic - across the road I am guessing that the Barclays Bank (today) building must have been built in modern times.
I know the Acocks Green island has been there for ages - and happy to say its still maintained very well.
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I don't think the bank in Acocks Green was a new build, I think they just remodelled the existing buildings.
 

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In Cov they are turning banks in to pubs and pubs in to shops or other things or just boarding them up. Do they do tht in Brum?
 
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In Cov they are turning banks in to pubs and pubs in to shops or other things or just boarding them up. Do they do tht in Brum?
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hi nico with the odd expecption im afraid that here in brum they tend to demolish our buildings rather than make other us of them..

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Nico, when I worked for Bass Brewers there was a bank in Nottingham changed in to a pub called 'It's inn the Bank', making use of the features like the safe. Most of the pubs around here are demolished and housing built on the ground, thanks to the money grabbing pub chains. Sad!
 
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The Gospel Oak in Hall Green is now a Coop Supermarket - the outside of the building is almost the same but the back and part of the bowling green is a row of very small houses with very (tiny) small garden at the back.
 
I always liked this forum pic with the bowler hatted man sitting upright riding his bike on those cobbles. It is Navigation St and some heavy girder work on the right. I had a look on today's Street View and at least the building at the end of the street is still there but the girders have gone !

 
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The girders were the end of New Street Station's roof. Age about 1910+ maybe but not sure. Even way back then the infrastructure seemed a bit worn and decrepit. It seems difficult to find any photo's that depict newness of those 'back then' surroundings. Probably cameras were not a universal possession back then and lack of colour does not help. The end wall of the Queens hotel can be seen, as can the exchange tower. A keeper.
I wonder what was behind the bill boards there seemed to be an un-defined quadrangle there...maybe it went down to track level below.
The posters make interesting reading...Lewis's suits...Clarke's Thundercloud Tobacco (I think)...Mitchells nourishing stouts.
 
Well one Bank became Lloyds pub it now has a different name, the Malt Shovel is a holistic remedy place, Hertford Arms is Marriage Guidance. The Malt had a wealth of of old beams and an ingle nook and narrow stairs so I would imagine they would have to keep them. Did you get free beer Anne?
 
#1104 and everyone wearing hats.
Must have been a nightmare riding a bike over those cobbles.

New Street station was built about 1850 (always seemed like a more modern station to me (in 1970's).
 
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