EPW054232 ENGLAND (1937). The city centre, Birmingham, 1937

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Title [EPW054232] The city centre, Birmingham, 1937
Reference EPW054232
Date 13-July-1937
Link
Place name BIRMINGHAM
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 406702, 286646
Longitude / Latitude -1.9013126454182, 52.477331380329
National Grid Reference SP067866

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ROYAL MAIL PARCELS OFFICES, PARADISE ST...(USED TO BE LINKED TO THE LETTERS SORTING OFFICE VIA A HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE OVER HILL STREET)......DEMOLISHED AND REPLACEMENT OFFICE BLOCK NOW CALLED 'ONE VICTORIA SQUARE'.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 11:10:57 PM
QUEENS COLLEGE...NOW QUEENS COLLEGE CHAMBERS....PARADISE ST.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 11:05:38 PM
BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL POST OFFICE, VICTORIA SQUARE.....SAVED FROM PROPOSED DEMOLITION....OPENED IN THE SAME YEAR THAT BIRMINGHAM BECAME A CITY.....NOW CALLED 'VICTORIA SQUARE HOUSE'.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 11:04:01 PM
ROYAL MAIL POSTAL SORTING OFFICES....BEHIND THE CENTRAL POST OFFICE, VICTORIA SQUARE.......THESE WERE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED, THE SORTING OFFICE RELOCATED TO 'THE MAILBOX' SITE..(SUFFOLK ST QUEENSWAY/SEVERN STREET)...THE NEW BUILDINGS IN HILL ST/SWALLOW ST BECAME THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE TSB BANK, THE MAIN ACCESS WAS VIA THE FORMER POST OFFICE, VICTORIA SQUARE.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 10:59:08 PM
THE 'FUTURIST CINEMA'.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 06:47:39 PM
BIRMINGHAM TECHNICAL SCHOOL, SUFFOLK STREET. THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID IN NOV 1893, RENAMED 'MATHEW BOULTON COLLEGE' IN 1957 IN HONOUR OF THE OWNER OF THE SOHO MANUFACTORY, FOUNDED IN 1761 AND WHICH BECAME THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST FAMOUS MANUFACTURING BUSINESS.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 06:45:58 PM
EASY ROW.....VIRTUALLY DISAPPEARED WHEN THE SECOND CENTRAL LIBRARY WAS BUILT.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 06:36:00 PM
THE CLEARED SITE FOR THE BUILDING OF THE PRESENT 'BASKERVILLE HOUSE'. THIS WAS CALLED 'EASY HILL'. IT SHOWS THE WHARF HAS BEEN FILLED IN, WHICH WAS PART OF JOHN BARKERVILLE'S FACTORY. AMONGST HIS ENTEPRISES WERE 'JAPPANING', PAPIER-MACHIE', HIS PRINTING WORKS FOR WHICH HE INVENTED THE CLEARER TYPEFACE, NAMED AFTER HIM...'BASKERVILLE'.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 01:56:55 PM

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 01:41:52 PM
LOCATION OF 'PHILIP HARRIS & CO' LUDGATE HILL.....USED TO SUPPLY APPARATUS AND CHEMICAL SUPPLIES TO SCHOOLS ETC.... BUILDING ALTHOUGH DERELICT AND UNLOVED IS STILL STANDING. THE CARVED KEYSTONE OF THE DOOR SURROUND,HAS '1905' IN RELIEF ABOVE THE ENTRANCE.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 01:40:29 PM
JAMES COND PRINTERS, CHARLOTTE STREET.

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Thursday 19th of November 2015 01:25:46 PM
Formally THE CROWN

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:25:06 PM
BINGLEY HALL...now INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE (ICC)...and SYMPHONY HALL.

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:23:59 PM
PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:22:11 PM
WEST END CINEMA....previously CURZON HALL...(all demolished)

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:19:49 PM
WORCESTER WHARF GOODS DEPOT (MIDLAND RAILWAY)

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:16:28 PM
LOCATION of THE MAIL BOX

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:14:47 PM
SYNAGOGUE ..BIRMINGHAM HEBREW CONGREGATION

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 05:11:53 PM
Old Headquarters of BRITANNIC ASSURANCE.....moved to QUEENSBRIDGE ROAD, B13 (MOSELEY/KINGS HEATH)

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:50:34 PM
GWR tracks to SNOW HILL STATION

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:42:30 PM

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:41:23 PM
BIRMINHAM ASSAY OFFICE.....(moving to BIRMINHAM MINT BUILDING on ICKNIELD STREET)

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:39:43 PM
NEWHALL STREET

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:37:41 PM
BRITISH ENGINEERING FEDERATION.....(Building now demolished)

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:32:56 PM
HEAD OFFICE OF BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK..(joined the local TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK CONSORTIUM 1973/4...renamed BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL TSB.....whole TSB enterprise floated on London Stock Exchange...taken over by LLOYDS BANK...became LLOYDS TSB BANK....demerged and again known as TSB BANK. The consortia were the first enterprise worldwide to use real-time computer communication over land lines for banking transactions. It is now disused.

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:29:49 PM
JOSIAH MASON COLLEGE

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:13:25 PM

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:12:28 PM

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:11:18 PM

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:10:31 PM
EMPIRE THEATRE...originally DAY'S CRYSTAL PALACE

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:09:13 PM
SMALLBROOK STREET......NOW SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:04:08 PM
OLD SCALA CINEMA

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:02:47 PM
OLD ST CATHERINE'S R.C.CHURCH

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 04:01:08 PM
BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME

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Sunday 18th of October 2015 03:59:25 PM
The Hall of Memory, Birmingham, 09/08/2014

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Friday 28th of August 2015 09:26:44 AM

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The Hall of Memory, Birmingham, 09/08/2014

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Friday 28th of August 2015 09:27:38 AM