Mainly For Brummies But All Are Welcome To Join In The Birmingham Fun & Chat |
---|
I suppose I am the only one, but until today I didn't realise where the Odeon New Street really is.
It isn't on New Street, it's an ugly building hidden behind the shops, the New Street entrance is just the end of a tunnel.
VM
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have." Emile-Auguste Chartier
Posts: | 18.439 |
Date registered | 02.24.2010 |
It actually backs on to New Street Station. But as the front door is on New Street, I would think that is the address.
Arguing with an idiot is like teaching a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time, and it only annoys the pig!
Posts: | 43.994 |
Date registered | 12.22.2009 |
VM
You are quite right the bulk of the cinema used to back on to New Street Station, but later it was given access to the Inner Ring Road and Smallbrook Queensway. All this can be clearly seen on this plan of the cinema when it was the Paramount and the photo of the front foyer.
Phil
Make Love, Not War
How long ago was it the Paramount then Phil.
Arguing with an idiot is like teaching a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time, and it only annoys the pig!
Posts: | 43.994 |
Date registered | 12.22.2009 |
SB
It was only the Paramount for about 5 years from when it opened in 1937 until it became the Odeon in 1942 when Oscar Deutsch purchased it.
Phil
Make Love, Not War
Thanks Phil I had always thought it was built as an ODEON.
Arguing with an idiot is like teaching a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time, and it only annoys the pig!
Posts: | 43.994 |
Date registered | 12.22.2009 |
I always thought that the whole point of that big tall sign was that it represented the Odeon and that it appeared on all other Odeons, yet there it is reading Paramount.
Perhaps I haven't been paying attention.
VM
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have." Emile-Auguste Chartier
Posts: | 18.439 |
Date registered | 02.24.2010 |
Look what I found, I refer to the writing on the wall.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=U...234.84,,0,-7.54
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
http://brummiestalking.org.uk/
Posts: | 18.439 |
Date registered | 02.24.2010 |
I know the spot intimately, about thirty years ago when we were looking for a site for a new depot. BR as it still was then offered us all that land that is on top of those viaducts alongside the track as a peppercorn rent.
We thought about it but decided it was a little too open and unprotected up there and as most of our depot would be open yard it would be very easy to enter unobserved. As I say we decided against it and I don't think it has ever been occupied since.
I think it is where they unloaded the cattle before driving them over to the slaughter house in Bradford St.
Phil
Make Love, Not War
I have found another cobblestone street. I remember parking down here about ten years ago when buying a tagging gun from a display shop.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=U...,252.04,,0,0.87
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
http://brummiestalking.org.uk/
Posts: | 18.439 |
Date registered | 02.24.2010 |
Volty
You might be surprised to find how many cobbled streets there are around just covered over by a layer of tarmac. There was no need to remove them as they hardly ever sink after they have been down a few years, and you can't get better hard core. So a lot of side streets were just given a cosmetic surface coating of tarmac.
Phil
Make Love, Not War
As many buildings are made to very old designs these days or frontages kept to face new buildings, I'm surprised old cobbled streets arn't uncovered these days or in fact new ones laid. SB
Brummies Talking....... Get the Buzz
Visitors copy this link.. http://brummiestalking.org.uk/
Posts: | 43.994 |
Date registered | 12.22.2009 |
Most pavements in Algarve are made from small cubes of rough stone. They can be a bit slippery and are always uneven. There are always holes where a bunch of them have come loose and get scattered about.
I think people just take extra care and so avoid accidents. In the UK we have gotten too used to walking about on comparatively safe and even surfaces.
VM
“If a man nows he wil soner or later be robed upon a jorny, he wil hav a botle of the bst in evry in and look on all his extrvagncs as so much ganed upon the thevs.”
Robert Louis Stevenson.
http://brummiestalking.org.uk/ http://telsen.co.uk/
Posts: | 18.439 |
Date registered | 02.24.2010 |
Nice smooth pavements are ok until they get icy. Then they get Dicey. That's not nicey.
Brummies Talking....... Get the Buzz
Visitors copy this link.. http://brummiestalking.org.uk/
Posts: | 43.994 |
Date registered | 12.22.2009 |