Further to my saying the yards were ripped up and the Tranship shed gone leaves me wondering how they sorted all the stuff out tha used to be sent there.From memory there wer 6 lines in the shed with drawbriges in the centrewhich were raised to allow the trucks to be takent out tochange them each day A huge amount of goods were collected also each day bytrucks and drays from all around Brum What happened to all of this stuff when Hocley Goods was closed?????????/// Old joe
I would guess that it's final demise came at or about the same period of the Middle Ring Road development in the eighties, though I suspect the yard had fallen into disuse during the mid sixties for the reasons given by Brian. Some of the smaller industrial units at the All Saints end and along the roadway leading to the canal dock are all originals.
My interest is how this all came about in the mid 1800's.
The following clip from LS7/672 at the LoB gives something of a clue as to how the Inward shed site was developed on land already identified for burial grounds and to the extent of Sir Thomas Gooch's lands.
It is part of a long linen drawing roll detailing land ownership and use from about 1848 onward and shows land leased or purchased by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley and Great Western Railway companies in the blue shaded area with the proposed railway lines in pink.
For orientation Pitsford Street runs left to right along the upper edge with the land allocated to the Birmingham Church of England Cemetery Company, Vyse Street top to bottom on the left side and Icknield Street top to bottom on the right side.
The lower boundary marking the trackbed on the southern side of the General Cemetery.
Interesting to me is the fact that lands on either side of Icknield Street were originally at the same level as the road which suggests that the spoil from cutting the tunnels between Moor Street and Vyse Street were used to raise the whole site to the rail level.
Parcel 861 describes the boundary of the land today occupied by the surviving road tunnel referred to previously so perhaps there was some dispute that required its construction.
The drawing also confirms all my previous thoughts on the development of Hockley Station.