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The only City Centre streets I can almost recall are the ones built in the 1960's....anything before that unless its there still I wouldn't know about, I was trying to figure out the bulidings in the back ground were, I did think that one was the buliding which lies above Halfords in Corporation St, (insurance company owns it or did) and the older building was on the corner of Union St, and Corporation St.....?...I am still not sure....
 
Here is some more info.
Postal info from 1888, unfortunately the map referenes refer to a missing map
Kelly's 1903 for Union Passage and Crooked Lane (sorry about the poor scan, I didn't do it)
 
Well I think that it is pretty obvious now, that the Crooked Lane on the photo was on the south side of Martineau St, and it ran from near the junction of that street with Corporation St behind it, to near its junction with High St.

I think that pretty well describes the situation, what do you think?

Phil
 
Sorry I should have said it ran from junction with Union Passage at point Behind Martineau St and ran to near the bottom junction with Dale End and High St.

Phil
 
PMC 1947,
The back of Yates was in Needless Alley,opposite The Windsor,which was,I think,the first pub in Brum to sell draught Guinness.
 
Hi

Thanks for your input, but this was solved about nine or ten months ago. It was Crooked Lane in the City and the photo was taken at the Dale End High St end.

Phil
 
Hello
Oozells Street was off Broad Street. In 1960 I went to Matthew boulton College up Oozells Street. Its part of the canal system now.
WendyP
 
I think it's the Crooked Lane off the top of the old Martineau Street. The other Crooked Lane was below High St. I believe that the two were at one time joined
 
hi phil
at this precice time i cannot put the name to it. but what i can say is that alley way was across the road facing bordesly street and in those days there was an opening
between the old marks and spencers and the co/op the years would have been around 1952,-3, 4, and i can tell you i was with my mom and her morher bertha jelf, nee hinton and she used to take me and my mother her daughter to buy us clothes
and we would walk back down through there to get back to the house and coffee shop where they lived and i used to walk my grand parents dog spot up and down there on sundays i used to go up barthemew st upand down that passage way
but at this momemt in time i cannot say the name of the alley
you had albert st then the little side road where the jacy picturehouse was with the stage door coffee shop but further along that high street in those days youcould walk through along side a big wall which was the railway it was a high wall you could not see the trains but you would hear it passing you astonian''
 
Astonian,

The passage in the photo was Crooked Lane, that ended at the High St. The one you are thinking of is probably Shaws Passage that ran from Park St to Allison St. I walked down there many a time. I even demolished the old freezers there at the back of the old ice cream factory. We had the people next door (Friends of the Earth) round every day complaining.

Phil
 
wasn shaws passage the one down by the bridgejust before you went under the bridge on the left hand sidew going down alinsion st i don,t recall any factorys coming down that alley from the high st it was to narrow for factories
 
pmc1947 said:
JKC

Thanks for the input, the photo was taken in 1959 and that part of it at least was still known as Crooked Lane. I just wish I could locate it a little more accurately as it is so familiar to me.

Phil
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I was closing in on it I had just arrived in Phillips Place


Phil bit late catching up but there is a mention in this Book about the manufacture of Cocoa in Crooked Lane.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18821

Alf
 
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Thanks for the interest, but this was solved some months ago. It was Crooked Lane, and it originally ran from where the cathedral is now and ended at High St/ Dale End.

Phil
 
hi minnie
thanks for thread, I cannot remember as I have been away from brum since I joined the army at 15 yrs old, 62 now. my old dad used to take me to longbridge to the lickeys on the tram, sometimes we would get off to look at the "austin" when britain was great. we would go into that black/white pub at the lickeys tram terminus, and I would have a packet of smiths crisps and vimto. happy days
regards
brummie stacey
 
hi.there was a small factory/foundry down shaws passage next to the ice cream place.but the owner burned it down.when he started up the furnace one morning
 
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