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Where is This? 21

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
Here is another lovely old church building, I have to tell it is still there today, but it looks very different now.

So pray tell me where is it?

Phil

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No one brave enough to attempt a try. Well I'm off for a few days sometime today. So I suppose a clue is in order. What about a photo of how the Church looks today.

Phil

BalsallHeathLadypoolRdStBarnabus.jpg
 
I have just pulled this out of the cellar, it had sunk down the listings that far. 140 odd people have viewed it and nobody recognises it. You must all have been born on the wrong side of Birmingham.

I suppose another clue is in order, well its south Birmingham again, though not Solihull this time. Its a little more towards the inner city, and although it does not look like it its a very busy shopping area.

Phil
 
Fred

Thats not very fair, you only lived a couple of hundred yards away. Do you remember the old building. I cant remember why it was cut down in size. I seem to remember a fire, was that it?

Phil
 
Phil,
i looked at it befor but the iron railings through me they must have been taken during the war years and replaced with wood, i have a wedding photo taken on the steps my cousin Pat, i used to be in the choir at that church many many years ago

the fire, i have forgotton it has only been this last year being on the forum and talking with my cousin Graham that is bringing my memory back.
 
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From:https://www.saintagathas.org.uk/stbarnabas.htm
"[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]St Barnabas Church is situated on the corner of Ladypool Road and Clifton Road in Sparkbrook. The original church was built in 1899 and St Barnabas became a parish in its own right in 1905. The church was extensively rebuilt following a very serious fire in April 1970. Parts of the old building were incorporated into the new one - giving it an intimate feel retaining a sense of sacred space."[/FONT]
 
Sorry Phil it is just down to so many hours in a day thing, I can't look at every thread. This one caught my eye when I saw Fred's name. I remember the church very well. I lived in the same street as Frederick and passed the place a million times coming home from Clifton Road junior school and then later from Dennis Road. I remember most the smell and the heat in the winter coming from the cokes fired heating in the cellar, it was like Dante's inferno down there. lol

All the family in Fred's photo are of course mine too. On the extreme right my cousin Jean Sheldon three days older than me and the most beautiful girl in the world. She's standing next her dad William, my mum's brother. I cleaned this photo up for Fred some time ago. As Frederick has pointed out this is on the steps of the church in the first photo, Saint Barnabas.
 
I think this is one of the nicest, most honest wedding photographs I've ever seen. It was obviously a rainy day, and the four youngsters faces are surely saying "Can we go and play now?"
I'm also pleased to read and see that parts of the old church building have been incorporated in the new one - that entrance door in the pic of the new church looks familiar.
 
Thanx Lloyd for your comments and you made a good job of that. I have my nice cleaned up version on a disc and was too lazy to look for it. BTW, Fred and I are still trying to find our cousins, the Sheldon's Jean, Johnny, Brian and Robert.
 
That looks good Pom, Fred will be chuffed when he opens this back up. Fred is in the photo standing just behind the groom's right hand side (left when looking at the photo).

ps, I find it spooky looking at this photo, because if I hadn't emigrated in 1967 I would have been on it!
 
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