Rotton Park street

[mikejee]

Any one recognise this phot, which supposedly was in Birmingham?

 

[Astoness]

think its one of those we either know or we dont mike...no obvious clues but fingers crossed someone may know

lyn

 

[Morturn]

Any one recognise this phot, which supposedly was in Birmingham?

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Interesting photo that Mike, it seems to have a modern LED lamppost

 

[mikejee]

Interesting. Had not noticed that

 

[Astoness]

and i think its a corner road or st further down on the right mike but apart from that not much to go on...

lyn

 

[izzy eckerslike]

Here is the photo made brighter, looks like an abandoned area awaiting demolition, rubbish in the gutters everywhere, looks like a corner shop with 2 people down the end. Typical Victorian era with lots of small paned windows for workshops, entrance must be round the corner

 

[clarkstreet]

Any one recognise this phot, which supposedly was in Birmingham?

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Rotten park st.off Icknield port rd.

 

[izzy eckerslike]

Rotten park st.off Icknield port rd.

Spot on! incredibly the building is still there along with the lamp post complete with the same labels on, original B&W photo must also be recent

 

[Astoness]

Rotten park st.off Icknield port rd.

well done clarkstreet....how did you get that...did you live around there ? no cobbled pavements now and what i thought was a side road on the right seems to be the entrance to the factory

lyn

 

[pjmburns]

The pavement is still the same on the right. I think they are less defined than in the B/W photo.
Clip from StreetView

 

[pjmburns]

Lamp post went up between 2014 and 2020.
StreetView 2014

 

[brummy-lad]

Built 1903, I hope it survives.

 

[brummy-lad]

Possibly Docker Brothers?

Thread:

Thread 'Docker Bros'

Nov 13, 2020

Examining the excavations from my attic, in a couple of copies of "The Aeroplane" from 1945-55, I came across these adverts for the firm.



The firm was formed in 1877 at 135 High St Bordesley as William docker & Co to manufactue varnish for blacking stoves,and soon also opened a factory in nearby Allcock St.. In the mid 1880s they opened a factory in Rotton Park St, and for a few years maintained both sites but, but soon concentrated on the Rotten Park St site. They soon expanded into paint, varnish & cellulose lacquer manufacturer, and, as can be seen from the...

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[johnny082]

I thought I recognised it when I first saw it. then when confirmed it was Rotten Park Street realised how I did so. When I left school I worked in the laboratory of McKechnie Bros. also in Rotten Park St. I also think it could have been Docker Bros. but nearly 80 years on who knows !!!

 

[mikejee]

In 1913, it was the corporation's salvage /destructor department on map. In directories of the time Dockers are listed as next to it, though not quite clear which side of them, though from the ,map it must be the unnamed building to the north

 

[brummy-lad]

An aerial view of Rotten Park Street dated 1935.

 

[Stokkie]

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/dockers-paints-rotten-park-street-ladywood.43410/
28 July 1942 Air raid set Dockers alight. I heard vivid accounts from the locals 20 years later. Four brave firemen were lost. But as a child they didn't tell me that.

 

[mikejee]

Thread retitled and moved to streets section

 

[Stokkie]

Can't find any mention of the air raid or fire in the papers, but Birmingham Images has a photo of the damping down.
https://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/Details.aspx?ResourceID=7423&PageIndex=1&ThemeID=857

 

[mikejee]

That photo does not seem to be next to the Corporation salvage depot. however it seems that the firm moved to the other side of the street between 1913



and 1939

 

[Dionysius//88]

In 1913, it was the corporation's salvage /destructor department on map. In directories of the time Dockers are listed as next to it, though not quite clear which side of them, though from the ,map it must be the unnamed building to the north

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Mike I'm glad you mentioned the corporation yard , when I started my apprenticeship in the 60's the company I worked for used to discard all their waste paper there the paper were in what looked like 6' x 4' sacks and of course they had to pay to get rid of it .

 

[pjmburns]

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/dockers-paints-rotten-park-street-ladywood.43410/
28 July 1942 Air raid set Dockers alight. I heard vivid accounts from the locals 20 years later. Four brave firemen were lost. But as a child they didn't tell me that.

BARRA website only lists one death in Rotten Park Street on the night of the 27th July 1942
A civilian named Sydney Charles Tropman