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Where is This? 183

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
It's been a while since we had one of these, the trouble is you are all too knowledgeable. To this end I have had to blank out many clues on this photo, but there are still some that remain. So lets see how you get on with this one. I still fancy it will go rapidly.

Phil

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No Dek, that was a curry house there. I don't suppose it was when this photo was taken though.

Phil
 
No Bob not Suffolk St, the last one or two didn't get much response so I thought it best to leave them off for a while.

Phil
 
Right Phil how about Bromsgrove St and Hurst St although i,m not confident the house numbers fit . Dek
 
I notice the potato shop has a coat of arms above the widow and below it says "potato salesman to the Queen ". You would have thought Queen Vic would have owned enough farms to supply her own needs.
 
hi richie..i think you are right about it being in the city centre area...ive looked again and it could be anywhere...now cherry st is in me mind but maybe not as there seems to be a slight incline...

lyn
 
Morning Phil had another look at the photo there,s some rather grand building along the street like Lyn i agree its in the town centre i wonder if the" Potato salesmen to the Queen"is something to do with a hotel in the window above it has the words sale,sale ,rooms and then a word i can,t make any sense of.Now i,m stumped i can,t think of a street with a Queen Hotel. Lets have another guess Bull St and Dale End. Dek
 
dek...seeing the very large numbers on the building reminds me of a cracking pic i have of well st which i think was in the deritend area...

lyn
 
Hi Lyn i don,t remember Well St but you are right about the buildings in that area Jamaca Row springs to mind that always struck me as rather grand. Dek
 
dek..i think pics of well st are few and far between...the pic i have shows an old 16th century tripe house....i shall wait for phil now to say if any of our guesses are correct but knowing me i will be way off beam...
 
Richie,

You have it spot on, its the corner of Moor St & the Bull Ring taken in 1880. I didn't think it would last long, but well done you.

Phil

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well done richie.....phil i need a map..i just cant invisage where it is to how it looks now...

lyn
 
Nor me Lyn i think we are looking up Moor St and as i remember it Oswald Baileys was on the left corner but what has me baffled is the house numbers 16 -15 they would be going down Digbeth. Dek
 
dek..if we are looking up moor st what is the street running accross..im compeltely lost...help....i will go and look at me maps see if i can work it out on any of those...
 
Lyn it would be Digbeth going into the Bull Ring (if it was named Digbeth then)it may have had another name in those days. Dek
 
ok dec..just rummaging through some maps...although if mike see this he would be able to put me right..just remembered that before they got married my grandfather and granmother lived at 50 and 57 digbeth..that was in 1928
 
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The map in 1890 is at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/m...d=10098&ox=2131&oy=1908&zm=1&czm=1&x=505&y=36. I did actually look up potato salesmen in the 1880 Kellys, but got none at a number 16 . This was partly because matthew jones was not listed there in the 1880 edition ( it was Thomas Bladon, ironmongers) , which shows that Jones must have moved in in 1880. However in 1883 it is listed in the street , but, for some reason, not given a number, which seems a little peculiar , as it was written on the wall in large letters !
Mike
 
Lyn
for some reason no 16 doesn't seem to be listed in the 20th cenutuy Kellys. No 15 does (Freeman hardy & Willis), though it seems to be allan griffiths, boot dealers for most of the time up to just after the war. Maybe they merged 15 & 16 and called it no 15, or perhaps included it as a part of the last building in moor St. the map c 1911 shows similar buildings to the 1890 one around the corner.
 
Ah thanks Mike it was called Bull Ring and not Digbeth noticed an hotel just up by the station could this have been called The Queens Hotel. Dek
 
Astoness said:
dek..if we are looking up moor st what is the street running accross..im compeltely lost...help....i will go and look at me maps see if i can work it out on any of those...
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Lyn

From the end of Digbeth to Moor Street it was The Bull Ring from the other side of Moor St it was High St. Here is the same view a little later.

Mike

It might have been listed under Nelson House 2 Moor St.

Dek

I think the pub was the Tanworth Arms.

Phil

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thanks phil..great that you have the pics to show us...


can we have another one please...
 
Astoness said:
well done richie.....phil i need a map..i just cant invisage where it is to how it looks now...

lyn
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Lyn, I have every edition of the Spud Growers Gazette since 1820 hence my ability to put my finger on the spot immediately....sorry my scanner not working at present to show you the 'tater fights they used to have in the basement there......

Do i get to come along to the BHF Christmas Bash this year? As the star guest?

Please?

Richie.
 
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