Ashted Circus, once just known as the Ashted Row and Dartmouth Street junction and the particular corner we are concentrating was the home to Holbrooks Sauces. Then along came some of our EU partners one night and bombed the premises beyond economical repair.
The buildings lay in a derelict state for many years until along came the son of an Italian immigrant who promised to turn Birmingham into an example of how a modern city should be. On the whole he didn't do too bad a job of it except he had a predilection for putting pedestrians underground via a system of stairs ramps and tunnels which in turn made the motor car king. Though in recent year sanity has reared it head and the pedestrian has begun to be brought back to road level.
