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motorman-mike

motorman-mike

Brum visitor who stayed.
This really is an easy one! (But I liked the view)
 

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I think this is where I took my music exams years ago [many year ago] Jean. Is it called the Midland Institute?.
 
I remember as a very young lad seeing the Easy Row houses being demolished, and thinking - why? All they need was doing up a bit. It was the start of replacing worn with worse, the whole city suffered from it in the 50s and 60s.
Nice view of the rear of a FHA Midland Red 'decker still in pre-war livery!

It reminds me, on Remembrance Sunday my father would take me down to the hall of memory, the traffic would be stopped and we stood for the two minutes silence in the middle of Broad Street, year after year. Why doesn't it happen now?
 
Here you are Lloyd, same location a few years later with the Hall of Memory in view and a later generation of Midland Reds. Can't help thinking the gardens were much more attractive than todays Centenary Square.
 

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You're right about the gardens Motorman-mike. They were a lovely
peaceful place in a busy area back then.
 
Thank you jennyann, I think it's a shame as well to see whats going on with the Civic Centre at the moment. Shame they couldn't have relocated the Central Library in to there.
 
I thought the gardens should have remained and the fountain lights used to change colour when they were switched on.
 
TOTALLY DESTRUCTION By The City Planners
Why Don,t We Get The Foriegn Dezigners Over In This Country
And Let Them Show Our Planning Deptment A Thing Or Two
 
the fountain lights used to change colour when they were switched on.
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Do you realise I hadn't remembered that for 50 years!!! I went as close as I dared to the edge and leant over to see how the colours changed, it was coloured sheets of celluloid in a frame turned by a small motor, I discovered - with dad calling "If you fall in, they won't let you on the bus to go home!"
 
Astonian said:
TOTALLY DESTRUCTION By The City Planners
Why Don,t We Get The Foriegn Dezigners Over In This Country
And Let Them Show Our Planning Deptment A Thing Or Two
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I must admit, in 1975 I was in Munich and walked round the unbelievably clean, light and airy city centre, and knowing how it had all been destroyed in the war, thought 'who really won?'
I also believe the allied powers paid for the rebuilding of much damage in Germany when we couldn't afford to rebuild back home.
 
I didnt recognise the Midland institute but in the photo of the memorial gardens .. I noticed the old Library in the background . In my first year as a student at the Birmingham school of music we sadly watched them knock the old library down and were very sad , and in iur last years we lost the old post office too :( I remember taking my music exams in a church hall type place nearby Lewis,s in the 70s and the Midland institute giving me a grant to go to study the Double bass as I was totally poor. My first year at college was the Old School of music in Dale end , does anyone remember it ? BTW what do you play Jean
best wishes Jean
 
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