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Various street pics

I tried to post a pic of the ornamental masonry on the end building of Charlote Street/St.Pauls Square. It currently refers to solicitors. I wonder what, if any, was the original design?
 
Also in the picture is the Sheffield Smelting Co, could their premises stretch to St Paul’s Square.

It is an old Company of Sheffield dating back to around 1760. Grace give the Co as having premises in Birmingham in 1922.
 
I reckon the plaque looks very modern. the building is not included in The English Heritage book on the Jewellry quarter by John Cattell et al , so I would think there is not much of the original left. The map c1950 seems to make it both 55-56 St Pauls Square and either 60-61 or 61 Charlotte St and was then a Gold & silver smelting works. Kellys fo 1950 lists 61 Charlotte St as Sheffield Smelting Co, bullion dealers.
 
If Sheffield Smelting extend to St Pauls Square, and enlarging, the decoration may even say Sheffield Smelting?

Pearson Rowe may of tarted it up a bit.

It looks like the brickwork has changed, so maybe Pearson Rowe cast a model of the old to preserve the history?

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As I said in post 244 Kellys of 1950 lists no 61 as sheffield Smelters, and the OS map shows 61 as the corner building
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In the write up for the plaque it says..."In 1970 JB bought the building that bears the plaque from another Company Sheffield Smelting Co. and their name was put on the distinctive cartouche on the wall facing Charlotte Street.
 
Alan
I think this was only offices. They had another site at 4-6 Warstone lane , where I took photos around 1970 ( #2 at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-1969-73.23229/page-2 ), which, as you can see, looks far more like a factory . They had then been on the site for about 25 years.
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Sheffield Smelting Co also had premises at Warstone Lane as shown above, and one advert asks for Lab Assistant applications.

They also had an address in Caroline Street.
 
A guess of a date might be a year or so prior to WW2. A Midland Red FEDD bus in the distance and a BCT pre-war type by the furniture store. Can't make out the route 14, 15, 16? Grosvenor Workman went out of business it seems in 1976. Whether that was due to trading conditions or re-development I don't know. R S have probably gone or moved but maybe the church is still there.
 
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A guess of a date might be a year or so prior to WW2. A Midland Red FEDD bus in the distance and a BCT pre-war type by the furniture store. Can't make out the route 14, 15, 16? Grosvenor Workman went out of business it seems in 1976. Whether that was due to trading conditions or re-development I don't know. R S have probably gone or moved but maybe the church is still there.
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Agree with you on date, some of the cars are late 30s and the bus has a yellow roof and offside route indicator
Bob
 
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Stitcher's original picture looks like Broad St. I can't read the road sign on the right. Could it be Berkley St.
My second picture is 1955 in Lee Bank, looks if they have diversified.
 
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I feel sure I have posted these two before but I can't find them so here they are again.
 
Indeed there are six ways at Five Ways, Edgbaston. I looked at a current map and my instinct suggested a sixth road was added at some time. Knowing the Calthorpe folk were rather protective of their environs I came to the conclusion Calthorpe Road was the addition.
Bill Dargue says it was added in 1820 some 250 years or so after the first recorded date for Five Ways.
Incidentally there are two other Five Ways in the city, one at Bordesley Green and another at Stechford but it seems there are only five ways at those places.
https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-f/five-ways-edgbaston/
 
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I have no idea what the image was that is referred to as a year earlier.
 
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