EPW054229 ENGLAND (1937). The city centre, Birmingham, 1937

Thorp Street Drill Hall (Warwickshire Regiment)

Kent Street Swimming Baths

THE OLD REP...STATION STREET.

SMITHFIELD MARKETS ..(WHOLESALE).

VINE STREET....

CENTRAL ROW...

MARK LANE.....

THE 'BRITISH OAK' PUB

ODEON NEW STREET CINEMA AUDITORIUM.

QUEENS DRIVE......SEPARATING THE TWO 'HALVES' OF NEW STREET STATION....DISAPPEARED WHEN THE STATION WAS TOTALLY CHANGED IN THE 60'S REBUILD.

THE CORNER OF THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN SAVED AND PRESUMABLY WILL BE REFURBISHED...(THE FIRM OF 'M & J SHAPERO LTD' HAD A SIGN ON THE FRONT)

ESSEX STREET

INGE STREET

'THE SCALA CINEMA'

THIS IS NOW THE LOCATION OF 'THE ARCADIAN' CENTRE.

OLD MAP SHOWS THIS AS THE LOCATION OF AN ANCIENT WELL CALLED 'LADY WELL'.

BATH PASSAGE

LADYWELL WALK

WROTTERSLEY STREET....USED TO JOIN SMALLBROOK STREET BUT NOW TRUNCATED, AFTER THE RINGROAD CONSTRUCTION, AND EFFECTIVELY A CUL-DE-SAC.

SHERLOCK STREET

NOW CALLED 'THE JUBILEE CENTRE'

THE 'BIRMINGHAM EMPIRE' THEATRE... A MR JAMES DAY BUILT A THEATRE, CALLED 'DAY'S CRYSTAL PALACE', OPENING IN 1862, ON THE FORMER SITE OF 'THE WHITE SWAN' PUBLIC HOUSE. THIS CONCERT HALL FINALLY CLOSED IN 1893, SOLD TO 'MOSS EMPIRES LTD' WHO DEMOLISHED MOST OF IT AND REBUILT ANEW, OPENING IN 1894 AS 'THE NEW EMPIRE OF VARIETIES'. ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE EMPIRE THEATRE', 'THE EMPIRE PALACE', AND 'THE BIRMINGHAM EMPIRE'......THE BUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY WWII BOMBS IN 1941 AND WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1951.....FROM THE 60'S THE NEW BUILDINGS HAVE HOUSED A SUCCESSION OF NIGHTCLUBS.

THE CROWN PUB/INN

HILL STREET

SINGER'S HILL SYNAGOGUE....BIRMINGHAM HEBREW CONGREGATION.

THE CRAVEN ARMS PUB....CORNER OF BLUCHER ST & UPPER GOUGH ST.

NAVIGATION STREET.

HOLLOWAY HEAD.

ST CATHERINE OF SIENNA RC CHURCH....DEMOLISHED WHEN BRISTOL STREET WAS WIDENED..NEW CHURCH IS SET FURTHER TO THE LEFT OF PICTURE.

THIS IS NOW WHERE THE 'PAGODA' ISLAND IS, OVER THE UNDERPASS.

SUFFOLK STREET.

BIRMINGHAM TECHNICAL SCHOOL

OLD ENTRANCE TO THE 'ALEXANDRA' THEATRE.

THE 'VICTORIA' PUB/INN.

ST JUDE'S CHURCH

JOHN BRIGHT STREET

BRISTOL STREET

PERSHORE STREET

THE 'BACK TO BACK' HOUSES.

BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME.

HURST STREET