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Where is this?

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
What is the name of this street, this should pose no problem at all, at least somebody has helpfully removed the street name plate.

Phil

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Reminds me of Cannon Street. Ran off New Street, between Temple Street and Corporation Street.
If I'm right that would make the building centre background the side of Rackhams.
Do I win a prize? :)
Steve
 
longshen

Cannon St was bigger and had shops and pubs, and the back entrance to Yates Wine Bar.

Phil
 
In all honesty although I have the name of this road with the photo, and I am sure I recognise it, I do not know the exact location. Historical records put it as one of the oldest roads in Birmingham and it has links with Cadbury's.

Phil
 
no I am afraid not,

all these answers are coming in the right approximate area. Well thats the area most of these little narrow lanes are and were, but you still need to come up with the right name. Concentrate on the Cadbury's angle.

Phil
 
Sorry Phil going to bed now. Going away for a few days in the morning. Let me know through a private message incase I miss it when I get back. Thanks a lot. Jean.
 
I can't find it on a map, is it Crooked lane? Cadbury Brothers started there.

Now Martineau way perhaps?
 
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I Beleive It Origionaly Started By The Old Jacy Picture House And It Was A Walk Through
That Almost Took You Through Down The Side Of The OLD Stage Door Resturant
Or The Very Old Marks And Spencer S Store InThe Forties And Fifty,s And You Would Eventualy Come Out OnNew Cannal St And It Was KnownAs A Passage I Have Walked My Grand Motheres Dog Butch ThroughThere Many Times On A Sunday And Walkede With My Mother And Grand Mother There Used To Be A Very Long Wall Half Way Down You Would Have Come Out At The Very Top End Of Bordesly St , By An Old Cemetry ,
Then Walk Down Bordesly St To No 1 , New cannal St Digbeth ,
 
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I can't find it on a map, is it Crooked lane? Cadbury Brothers started there.

Now Martineau way perhaps?
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I can't find on the map either, but the name on the photo says Crooked Lane. The history I have says it was around in the time of the De Bermingham's and this Lane was involved in the loss of the de Bermingham manor. In those days it ran from The Cherry Orchard (Cathedral) to Bull St.

Phil
 
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
 
On the Godfrey map of 1902-11 and on British History Online, Crooked Lane is shown as the curved street running off Marineau St. See pic.
 
Phil...the only place I can only think it would have been, but I cannot think of its name..is where Curry's is or used to be....if you come down bull street, on your right hand side is a passage way with a few steps, leading into a precinct, Curry's one side and Dixons on other...then Union Street, would Crooked Lane be where the steps are leading from Bull Street,?....
 
JKC

I think this 1731 Plan of Birmingham shows the original line taken by the Lane. Although it is not named. It runs down from Temple Row through the cherry orchard and ends at the junction of what is now High St, Bull St and Dale End.

If you look at the top right of the map you will see where it starts. I think it could have been where the Rackhams building now stands, That was built after 59 I think.

Phil

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