Where is this???

[Astoness]

cant be certain if i have posted this pic before but i think its a great shot...especially as we can see the rear view of behind the shops......bet this one wont last long....

lyn

 

[Phil]

Hi Lyn

Its Great Lister Street Nechells , I'm not sure of which junction. But I'm sure Ernie can tell you. He has a newspaper cutting and story about it somewhere.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

what took you so long phil..lol...yes you are of course correct... sorry i havnt got the name of the junction..caption reads gt lister st dated 1950 at the start of demolision...i will have to try harder on the next one...

lyn

 

[db84124]

Good evening, Lyn and Phil,
The site of the missing corner shop and its adjoining shops and houses seems to be too clean to be an operative demolition site. Could this be bomb damage from six or seven years before 1950? If so, there should be records from which the junction could be identified. David

 

[Astoness]

evening david...thats a good point...maybe someone will be able to find out for us.....

lyn..

 

[john knight]

I don't think it's pre-demolition, too tidy and neat, Think it's as David says bomb damage shored up.

 

[mikejee]

There is the slight problem that not all numbers are included in Kellys, but looking for numbers that disappeared between 1939 and 1944 and are still not there in 1949 gives only two possibilities:
No 232 corner of Procter St
No 271 corner Adams St
Hope someone can go further as to whether either of these fits the bill.
mike

 

[dek carr]

There Was a modern pub "the New Inns built on the corner of Windsor St. i don,t believe it is Adam St as that was only 30 yarrds from Dartmouth St . I,m not sure if we are looking towards town or Saltley it seems to be the Saltley end as you can make out the shops and i remember them on the r/hand side if i am correct i my assumptions it must be Oliver St or Scholfield St i may be wrong. Dek

 

[Phil]

The site was the corner of Windsor St & Great Lister St. I was sure I remembered GER22VAN (Ernie) posting a newspaper article and photo some time back, but I couldn't remember where. I did save a copy of the newspaper clipping though. You should be able to read it if you open it and enlarge it.

The last time I was down that way, the corner in the photo was the site of a church or meeting house.

Phil

 

[Astoness]

well done phil...you have a good memory...thanks for the clipping...

lyn

 

[dek carr]

Phil it,s so much easier to get the photo in perspective when you know the answer when you enlarge the photo right at the top of the photo behind the bus is a tree and the only trees on Gt Lister St were at St Mathews Church I couldn,t see Henry St I realise now it is hidden by the car on the left but you can see the higher houses half way down the row this would have been by Silks cafe(shone on a previous photo ). Dek