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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Cotteridge with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is labelled " A newpark in Cotteridge 1908". It must be Cotteridge Park, with the houses of Franklin Road in the background. A...
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's still there Steve and mounted on an original part of the brickwork in that area, but certainly not in the position of Sir Arthur...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I think this IS Guildford St - but from Farm St not Park St. Geach St is on the right by the lampost, and where the houses are indented...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we now look across the road at a few building that seem rather sad, Barrowclift has the windows boarded up and the building to the right...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move across to the Jewellery Quarter and Legge Lane - these are a selection of old buildings but I am not sure which are left...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's still there Steve and mounted on an original part of the brickwork in that area, but certainly not in the position of Sir Arthur...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This picture is an old printers shop in Garrison Lane seems to be on its way out, no windows tiles off the roof and the old red and...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    apologies the skewed image - shows what I have to start with but also if I straighten it I lose the building at the top and with it the...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This information is a recap for newcomers, I scanned a lot of negatives of these old images - see the initial post for more...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now have a bit of time travel to 1964 and a view of what this area looked like, and what was lost - lots of three and four storey...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is an interesting sign - showing the site where Arthur Conan Doyle lived , I cannot add to this as my noted read - old sign Aston...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    and we now turn around to look toward the City Centre, looking to the distance you can see the holes in the landscape - all the old...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I know we have been up and down this road a few time this is a general view of the destruction, sorry redevelopment to improve the...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next picture forms a theme as this was closed the week before - its The Avenue, Aston Street North, as you can see it is still intact...
  • O
    oldroddy reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next we move to Thimble Mill Lane and Long Acre, this is the Prince Of Wales , not long closed but now boarded up and the windows broken...
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