Old Birmingham pictures

[hoody]

Originally Posted by NeilM

Also to the right, the old library was still there, shows how it was only knocked down so they could build Adrian Bolt fecking hall.

Not even that.

They knocked it down for crappy gardens which replace the exit ramps for a bus station that was never used!

Fucks sake.

[Ashtonian]

Snow Hill Station During the 70s

Apologies if you've seen these before!



If you watch from 2min20s onwards you'll get some great footage of Snow Hill Station. I particularly like the view at 3:20, imagine what it may have been like when populated with tracks and trains. Would that have been the view when coming out of the tunnel from Moor Street?


The first 7:22 of the vid shows the station.

Hat's off to Brunster64 for uploading the Gangsters vids!

[hoody]

4:41 for the steps to the old ticket office which i think may still be in situ in the arches of the viaduct. The entrances are concreted in.

[Ashtonian]

Originally Posted by hoody

4:41 for the steps to the old ticket office which i think may still be in situ in the arches of the viaduct. The entrances are concreted in.

Amazing!

There was so much character in that station.

I have been reading up on Snow Hill and Moor Street and learned that there is or was a Great Western Arcade which is directly above the tunnel linking the two stations.

In my very few visits to Birmingham City Centre, I cant recall seeing this arcade if it still exists. Mind you, I wouldn't have known about it to look out for it.

All I remember is the Pavilions being opposite Moor Street.
Is the arcade still there?

[Guilbert53]

Originally Posted by Ashtonian

I have been reading up on Snow Hill and Moor Street and learned that there is or was a Great Western Arcade which is directly above the tunnel linking the two stations.

In my very few visits to Birmingham City Centre, I cant recall seeing this arcade if it still exists. Mind you, I wouldn't have known about it to look out for it.

All I remember is the Pavilions being opposite Moor Street.
Is the arcade still there?

A quick search on "Great Western Arcade" finds this

http://www.greatwesternarcade.co.uk/

[Guilbert53]

14 seconds in on the second video there is a short clip of them driving up Digbeth.

On the right you can see Digbeth Cold storage, and just in front of it the red brick building that was Henneseys, which has been knocked down this very week I believe.

[Ashtonian]

Originally Posted by Ashtonian

In my very few visits to Birmingham City Centre, I cant recall seeing this arcade if it still exists. Mind you, I wouldn't have known about it to look out for it.

All I remember is the Pavilions being opposite Moor Street.
Is the arcade still there?

Originally Posted by Guilbert53

A quick search on "Great Western Arcade" finds this

http://www.greatwesternarcade.co.uk/

Thanks for this, good to know the GW Arcade is still there, but it doesn't link the two stations - far from it. It runs between Temple Row and Snow Hill. I read that it was extensively damaged during WWII. Could it originally have linked the two stations before WWII?

[Ashtonian]

Originally Posted by Guilbert53

14 seconds in on the second video there is a short clip of them driving up Digbeth.

Digbeth - is that where the National Express Coach Station is?

[Erebus555]

Originally Posted by Ashtonian

Thanks for this, good to know the GW Arcade is still there, but it doesn't link the two stations - far from it. It runs between Temple Row and Snow Hill. I read that it was extensively damaged during WWII. Could it originally have linked the two stations before WWII?

The arcade never linked the two stations, but that would have been immense if it did! There is another arcade directly opposite Great Western Arcade that leads from Temple Row to Corporation Street but it's a much more modern creation and was never attached to the Great Western Arcade.

The GW Arcade has been more or less restored now, although one end of the arcade hasn't been reconstructed so has a modern facing.

[morestoreysplease]

That arcade Erebus is called North Western Arcarde which might have been another railway co. back in the day.

[jrawle]

These two arcades were built on top of the cut-and-cover tunnel, presumably after existing buildings were demolished to allow the tunnel's construction.

This user on Flickr has old photos of the North Western Arcade, and various other arcades that used to exist in Birmingham:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6419673...7612312529949/

Presumably it was damaged in the war, and its modern replacement built as part of the Rackhams building.

I wonder where it gets its name from. The only railway company with North Western in its name was the L&NWR, which became part of LMS, a big rival to the Great Western, so I can't see them naming the arcade after them!

[Nacho]

Look at the statue in minute 1.17 in the following video.Very impressive .

http://www.youtube.com/user/idowish12

[Brummyboy92]

Ooooo, I like it, whatever happened to it? And what was it representing?

[hoody]

Not a picture but an old map.



I know what the exhibition hall was used for, but i cant find any images of it.

British Industries Fair

Anyone know of any?

[Erebus555]

The Pathe video website that Guilbert posted in the Skybar not too long ago has some videos from there. There's hardly any decent external shots though.

Before their website was taken offline in 2010, Castle Vale Housing Action Trust had a lot of pdfs about the history of the area and I remember one had an aerial drawing of the exhibition hall. The drawing might still be floating around somewhere but I have no idea where to start...

[super1duper]

This one shows the front and inside of a hall in 1955 - is this Castle Bromwich?
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=63510

And
http://images.birminghamhistory.co.u...10006/bif2.jpg

And pictures on page 27 of
http://www.cvcwp.co.uk/wp-content/pl...STLE20VALE.pdf

[hoody]

Originally Posted by Erebus555

The Pathe video website that Guilbert posted in the Skybar not too long ago has some videos from there. There's hardly any decent external shots though.

Before their website was taken offline in 2010, Castle Vale Housing Action Trust had a lot of pdfs about the history of the area and I remember one had an aerial drawing of the exhibition hall. The drawing might still be floating around somewhere but I have no idea where to start...

Originally Posted by super1duper

This one shows the front and inside of a hall in 1955 - is this Castle Bromwich?
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=63510

And
http://images.birminghamhistory.co.u...10006/bif2.jpg

And pictures on page 27 of
http://www.cvcwp.co.uk/wp-content/pl...STLE20VALE.pdf

Thank you. very insightful and interesting.

[hoody]

Yet another loss to Birmingham in 1963. The Grove in Harborne. Courtesy of P. Nicklin.

[woodhousen]

was that in rove park by chance???

[hoody]

Originally Posted by woodhousen

was that in rove park by chance???

Yep, on the Harborne Park Rd.

The Lodge survives.