Tyseley Wharf

[mikejee]

The photo below is from a book "Hold on a minute" by Tim Wilkinson, concerning his efforts working canal boats around the 1950s. The cation of the photo is identical to that in the text describing his arrival at Tyseley Wharf with steel billets, and so implies it is of Tyseley Wharf. Can anyone confirm it looks like that wharf, or has the author just taken a stock photo of a wharf for the book?

 

[devonjim]

This is an aerial view of Tyseley wharf(looking the other way) so your picture could well be too. The sheds of Wilmot Breeden on the opposite bank look familiar( I worked there for some 11 years) There is a similar tower in both shots.

 

[podgery]

Yes this is Tyseley Wharf. Wilmot Breeden on the other bank the brick works in the center the Adelphi cinema top right. Great Photo

 

[mikejee]

Thank you both

 

[tim eborn]

Never realized this was on my old doorstep!

 

[Phil]

It hasn't changed much in the last 50 or 60 years has it? The old brickworks and quarry on Amington Road have gone. I remember us tipping on there with a Council permit in the 70's when they topping it out. Though everything else looks still pretty much the same.

 

[podgery]

When we were kids we called the Quarry the clay pit. and the thing was in the fifties they were blasting for clay and at the same time there was a convoy of dust wagons emptying there loads.

 

[Pedrocut]

“British Waterways narrowboat fleet, consisting of several hundred vessels from two former carriers, were worked hard for a number of years after nationalisation, as this busy scene at their Tyseley Depot in Birmingham during 1957 shows. Their problems were many, with continually increasing competition, but hopes ran high with the delivery of new vessels. Unfortunately even the weather was against them, for the hard winter that froze the canals solid for many weeks in 1963 finally killed off narrowboat operations for the nationalised body.”

Pictorial history of canal craft by Smith, Peter. Publication date 1979

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Another photo of Tyseley Wharf dated 1944 (credit IWM).

 

[Radiorails]

The winter of 1947 wasn't kind at all to boatmen.