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High street Digbeth/deritend 1953."
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Rail Goods Depot
Thursday 20th December
10:05pm
Birmingham Gun Proofing House. This still exists down a secluded road under the West Coast Mainline
Thursday 20th December
10:04pm
Curzon Street Station
Thursday 20th December
10:03pm
Grand Union Canal starts here
Thursday 20th December
10:01pm
Digbeth/Deritend
Tuesday 26th June
11:48pm
New Digbeth Coach station ?
Monday 2nd July
9:15pm
The Ashton engineering works still stands behind the viaduct. The same company that produced the Ashton Evans car.
Monday 2nd July
8:14pm
This row of buildings still exists, with a Grade II listing. It used to house a boxing gym.
Monday 2nd July
8:12pm
This is a narrow street (court) lined with houses landlocked within the block and only accessible by a narrow passage next to the Old Bull's Head PH. The houses only had windows facing into the court and half of them used to back onto the Birmingham Battery and Metal Company - a somewhat noisy neighbour. This is typical of the living conditions of the poorer people who lived in the city centre.
Monday 2nd July
7:23pm
St. John's Deritend. A chapel was established here in the 14th century and was maintained by the Guild of St John. Their Guildhouse still exists in the form of the Old Crown Inn. The church was demolished when Digbeth/Deritend was widened - a fate that befell all the buildings on this side of the road.
Monday 2nd July
4:57pm
When it was demolished it was already in a state of dereliction, having been bombed during the war.
Monday 2nd July
7:10pm
Canal Wharfs
Monday 2nd July
7:06pm
St Gabriel's Church, built in 1869 and bombed in 1941. It was aligned diagonally to the streets around it and the ghost of it is still evident in the property boundaries.
Monday 2nd July
7:02pm
Floodgate Street Council School. Designed by Martin and Chamberlain, Architects, who also designed the Birmingham School of Art and the fountain in Chamberlain Square. The school is now part of South Birmingham College, Digbeth Campus.
Monday 2nd July
6:52pm
Wire and Rolling Mills in Bradford Street.
Monday 2nd July
6:46pm
Here stood the Old Leather Bottle PH and the Three Crowns PH, both of which were demolished by 1918 to make way for a garage as motor vehicles made their mark.
Monday 2nd July
6:42pm
The Big Bull's Head Hotel
Monday 2nd July
6:35pm
The Bull's Head PH
Monday 2nd July
6:35pm
The Anchor Inn, Bradford St, Digbeth
Monday 25th June
10:52pm
One of the handful of surviving 'proper pubs' in the city centre.
Monday 2nd July
6:26pm
Griffiths and Browett Tin plate and japanning works.
Monday 2nd July
6:11pm
Cheapside Saw Mills
Monday 2nd July
6:08pm
The Hope and Anchor PH. The site is now occupied by a car park.
Monday 2nd July
5:19pm
The site of the 16th century Golden Lion pub. It was taken down and rebuilt in 1910/11 in Cannon hill Park to rescue it from dereliction. What's left of it may yet return as part of a regeneration scheme for the area.
Monday 2nd July
5:14pm
These were the offices and Works of the Anglo-French company who were one of the first car manufacturers in the country. They used to be the premises of the Birmingham Battery and Metal Company and were demolished to make way for the Digbeth Institute in about 1908.
Monday 2nd July
3:56pm
Dear all,
That’s great; we’ve reviewed your comments and thanks to your help we can update the catalogue. The revised record will appear here in due course. Hope you have the same success solving some of our other mysteries!
Katy Whitaker
Britain from Above Cataloguer
Monday 2nd July
12:55pm
Picture taken over Moseley St looking NNE. The viaduct carries the GWR Oxford & B'ham railway with Snow Hill Station off to the left. In the foreground running left to right are Rea St, River Rea & Birchall St, crossing Cheapside, Bradford St and Digbeth High St. Floodgate St passes diagonally under the viaduct. Beyond the viaduct at top-left can be seen Curzon St Goods Station and the B'ham & Fazeley Canal in the centre.
Saturday 30th June
6:57pm
Great Western Railway viaduct carrying the line from London to Birmingham, Moor Street and Snow Hill Stations are not far away to the left of the photograph.
Wednesday 27th June
5:42am
This photo encompasses the works of Ashton-Evans, VAL, Rollo, British Peerless, Lanchester, Revolette, Anglo-French, Calthorpe and Hands.
Tuesday 26th June
7:04pm
The River Rea passing through Digbeth in a brick lined stormwater channel.
Tuesday 26th June
6:25pm
old crown oldest inn in Birmingham, High Street Deritend.
Tuesday 26th June
6:14pm
The Old Crown Inn
Tuesday 26th June
6:10pm
Digbeth Institute
Tuesday 26th June
4:00pm
The site was previously that of the Birmingham Battery and Metal Company which was used at the end of the 1800s to produce some of the first cars built in Britain - the Anglo-French.
Tuesday 26th June
4:10pm
The Works in Barn Street that produced the Hands and Calthorpe cars in the early years of the 1900s
Tuesday 26th June
4:09pm
The works that produced the Ashton-Evans, Revolette and Lanchester cars in the early years of the 1900s
Tuesday 26th June
4:07pm
The White Swan PH. Still there and functioning.
Tuesday 26th June
4:03pm
This building was used to produce British Peerless, VAL and Rollo cars in the early 1900s.
Tuesday 26th June
4:02pm
Deritend/Digbeth
Tuesday 26th June
1:38am
Devonshire Works / The Custard Factory - Digbeth
Monday 25th June
10:43pm
Digbeth, Birmingham.
I examined the rail bridge using Google street view, and it seems to be the same one in the picture
Monday 25th June
5:08pm