RE: Great Thread - 5

Before heading off down Steelhouse Lane we can take a little peek back down Bull St as far as Corporation St

Phil

Now we can take a stroll down Steelhouse Lane, the first couple of photos show what it was like down this end of the city before Birminghams first slum clearances.

It looks like the photo up-loader is playing up again, the two photos I mention are at either end of the first row.

Phil

Phil,
Do you have a date for The General Hospital picture. great pictures and a fantastic tour around.
Lynn.

Lynn

Sorry I do not have a definite date, but I would place it as between 1900 & 1910.

Phil

Thanks Phil, Lynn.

Of course there are many side streets and alley off Steelhouse Lane and the first one we come to is Slaney St just past the Wesleyan Assurance Building and before the Gaumont Cinema. I have only got the one photo of this narrow street that was more like an alley than a street. This photo shows bomb damage during the war.

The next side street on our trip down Steelhouse Lane is Upper Priory which led through to Old Square and Lewis's.

Phil

On the other side of the road was the heavily industrialised Weaman St that ran down to Bath St.

Phil

Our next side street was Newton St that divided the Crown Courts from the County Courts. We have a photo of the Steelhouse Lane End and one of the Corporation St end.

Phil

Next we have a little passageway that ran along the other end of the Crown Courts. Coleridge Passage it also ran from Corporation St to Steelhouse Lane.

Back over the other side of the road and the next side street is Whittall St that ran down one side of the then named General Hospital.

The last side street at the end of Steelhouse lane was Loveday Street at the other side of the General Hospital.

Where I and a thousand other brummies were born.

The thing is John, we are so much more intelligent than then rest.

Phil

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The thing is John, we are so much more intelligent than then rest.

Phil

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