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Where are these flower sellers

Key Hill Brian

Key Hill Brian

Proud Brummie
Help - Please!

I have this framed ohoto of Flowers Sellers - but I cannot place the location.

It is one of a set of 4, Snow Hill Stn Platform, Snow Hill Stn frontage, Colmore Row/Council House, and this!

I'm confident (well hopeful, anyway) that one of you will recognize it.:confused2::confused2:

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the name looks like -ar-brook, but the building on the right looks like the corner of the old eye hospital?
 
Brian, could it be Old Square? I have tried looking with as jeweller's loupe, but nothing to be seen to give any real clue. It seems an open area to me, and Old Square was quite wide.
 
I must admit, i cannot place it myself - I have looked in all my local books but nothing seems to be quite right.

It looks like an open square or very wide street, I thought it may be by the Bull Ring, but the roof line does not match anything I have a picture of?

Most puzzling?

Brian
 
It's Moat Row, looking towards Bromsgrove Street.
In this view, the photographer would be in the distance by the crowd opposite Read's tea and coffee shop, taking a picture to our right.
 
Such stunning pictures on this thread thanks Brian and Lloyd for the result!!
 
this is why I thought it was Old Square. It was wide, there were steam trams (someone mentioned it looked like a steam tram there), but I have looked through my photos and cannot see anything that matches. The building on the right which someone said looks like the eye hospital, I thought might have been the Exchange Buildings in Stephenson Street, but the side windows are not the same, so it's not that. I don't think it is the Bull Ring, I cannot remember any buildings so close together, but I may be wrong. Old photos of Old Square taking in all streets and angles is what is needed.
 
The building on the right when magnified shows the word BANK above the archway, there is a street sign too but its illegible
 
Well, I would not have recognised that at all. I know where you mean, but it's not a place I frequented. Stands to sense, I guess, flower sellers near a market. I bet Brian is happy now!
 
I Remember the Francis Nicholls building, but taken from this angle I would never have recognised the area. How lucky you are to have that Moat Row sign - Why am I never ther when things like this are up for grabs? (touch of the green-eye here!)
 
Yes, an old Rep pal from Sumlock Comptometers got a job working with disadvantaged lads greening up the City in the 80's, after he was replaced by computers. He found a few of these old Victorian street signs, including this one, rusting away in a Council scrap depot in Shadwell Street, so he found a good home for them. Never paid a penny for it.

The venue is confirmed in Dorothy McCulla's book Victorian & Edwardian Birmingham in Old Photographs. I enclose the photo and text.https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/images/attach/jpg.gifhttps://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/images/attach/jpg.gif
 
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Well, I wish I could have found something like that, how amazing that would be, but of course, now that reclamation is big business, there is no chance of getting freebies.

I do know a man, who used to buy stuff very very cheaply when houses and churches were pulled down, and his garden is full of bit of church floor and pillars and stuff. He is anex art teacher whose brother was an Architect. I have got the sign from the Key Hill Cemetery office door (it just says Office) which this man gave me some years ago, but that's all my luck has run to, I am afraid.

I have not seen the book by Dorothy McCulla, I must see if it is in the library next time I go.
 
Cheers Dennis, I have that book! Just rechecked, I must have turned 2 pages over or sumat! Duh!
"Italian women buying onions corner Moat row / jamaica row 1st June 1901"

Sometimes, you don't realise just what you do have.

Brian
 
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