Where is This? 151

[Phil]

I would think this location would be reasonably east to identify so in addition can you tell me what happened at this location 3 years after this photo was taken?

Phil

 

[Dave Riley]

Is it Colmore Row and three years afterwards the Council House was built on this site?

 

[Phil]

Dave

Sorry I have to answer no, but as a matter of interest this is how Colmore Row looked before they built the Council House.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

lovely pic of colmore row phil..cant beleive its the same place...anyhow back to your other one..i know the statue will be a clue but i dont know who its of....just a guess at broad st...

lyn

 

[doris]

Was this Galloway Corner if that is the correct name....and didn't they pull the place down just after this photo was taken...

 

[Jayell]

It wasn't the Bull Ring was it, before the Market Hall was built?

 

[The Baron]

Is it Paradise St before the TOWN HALL was built on the left behind the statue????

 

[jabbatheprawn]

is it islington row the original one at five ways .pulled down 3 years after picture

 

[Alf]

In the Jewellery quarter by the Clock Tower.

 

[Phil]

Sorry folks it's not the Jewelery Quarter, Galloway Corner, Bull Ring, Paradise Street or Islington Row.

Lyn perhaps knowing who the statue was might help, if you knew where the statue was.

two things about the statue and the man, first the man lived not far from where I used to live at one time. Much later they moved the statue not 50 yards from where I used to live. I don't know where it is now. Hidden away like most of Birmingham's works of art.

Phil

 

[Jayell]

I know what and where the statue was but I don't know the event that took place.

Judy

 

[Astoness]

hi judy..then tell us please.....

lyn....

 

[G G Jean]

Phil is it opposite W J Cannings. Bye. Jean.

 

[Phil]

Jayell

If you know the location, then tell us. It may help some one else with their theory of what happened there.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

phil is it duddeston area....

 

[Astoness]

no...high st digbeth....

 

[Phil]

Lyn

No and No

Phil

 

[Jayell]

Hi Phil

It is the Joseph Sturge statue at Five Ways. That is all I know.

Judy

 

[Phil]

Sorry Jayell but its not the right one. I didn't think you had got it right because if you knew where it was you would know what had happened there.

Phil

 

[Jayell]

Curses!! I thought it was the right one .....

 

[Astoness]

lol judy..at least you know the name of a statue..wish i had taken more notice of them now....will go back and look again..its just that a couple of the buildings look familar..

phil..can you give us yer previous addresses then lol

 

[Jayell]

OK then Phil. Am I right in the name of the statue? And is it somewhere in Edbaston?

Judy

 

[Astoness]

it looks city centre...somewhere by the central library..

 

[Dave Riley]

I think the Statue is of Thomas Attwood.

 

[Dave Riley]

Stephenson Place and three years later the statue moved to Calthorpe Park in 1925? Statue moved again afterwards to Larches Green, Sparkbrook?

 

[Phil]

Jayell

First of all let me say the statue of the slave trade abolitionist Joseph Sturge stands today at the edge of Five Ways Island outside the Marriott Hotel.

Dave

It is indeed a statue of Tommy Attwood, and not the one where is lazing around Victoria Square looking over his book at the Floozie in the Jacuzzi.

Now we have got that settled, where is it and what happened?

Phil

 

[G G Jean]

Would it be the Soho road Judy?. Jean.

 

[Jayell]

Not Soho Road Jean.

 

[Phil]

Dave

Right again, all you have to do now is tell us what happened three years after the photo was taken.

Phil

 

[Jayell]

Was it the building of the Birmingham Exhange building?