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Phil

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #506 on: June 19, 2017, 01:11:29 PM »
On our way to Erdington High Street we pass Erdington Abbey and just a little further on at the corner of Station Road the Cross Keys pub and the adjacent Sign Services sign that has been there many years but has now gone.
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« Reply #507 on: June 20, 2017, 07:49:32 PM »
Here we are now at the junction of the High Street and Sutton New Road which was built to bypass Erdington Village or so I believe.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #508 on: June 20, 2017, 08:07:47 PM »
Looking down the High Street from Erdington Village Green.
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« Reply #509 on: June 22, 2017, 10:09:47 AM »
Just down from the village green is The Swan the new version now sits on the pedestrianized area.
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« Reply #510 on: June 22, 2017, 10:11:11 AM »
A little further down the High Street at the Junction of New Street.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #511 on: June 22, 2017, 10:15:35 AM »
We have now reached the corner of Barnabus Roas and the Woolworths building.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #512 on: June 22, 2017, 10:18:53 AM »
A little further down the High Street on the other side of the road we find St Barnabas which was recently rebuilt after a fire, I have to say I'm not keen on the rebuild.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #513 on: June 22, 2017, 12:56:45 PM »

Hi Phil,   as you are probably aware I live in very close proximity to the church and I have to agree with you fully as to the so- called "rebuild" of it,  in my opinion they have taken away its originality and again in my view its now become a eyesore,  the new "trendy" look is just totally out of character with the rest of the church, which I'm led to believe was original, but isn't it just typical of todays ruination of all things of beauty and age?


           

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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #514 on: June 22, 2017, 01:27:22 PM »
If we get fed up of looking at St Barnabas and turn around we can look at what was probably one of the most famous clubs in Birmingham in the 70's. Starting out as the Carlton Ballroom school of dancing. then the Carlton Club and then finally it became Mothers the club it was most remembered as.

I'm afraid that by the time it opened as mothers being a married man I considered myself to old for such places so the only time I ever went through the doors was when my company stripped out the club fittings after a fire, but that was in the 90's.
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #515 on: June 22, 2017, 04:42:46 PM »

On our way to Erdington High Street we pass Erdington Abbey and just a little further on at the corner of Station Road the Cross Keys pub and the adjacent Sign Services sign that has been there many years but has now gone.


That man painting the wall was painting the same wall when I was a kid, has he not finished yet?  ;D 
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Re: Then & Now
« Reply #516 on: June 23, 2017, 07:25:06 AM »
Townie,  now your just trying to rush him,  the only thing that rushes by in Erdington is the traffic?


 

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