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baznkazthebrummies

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help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« on: January 25, 2012, 07:36:46 PM »
hi everyone.. can anybody tell me where exactly this photo is in bordesley. we have it has bordesley circus but are not to sure of the exact location. does any one have a map? this is just to satisfy our curiosity
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 07:38:34 PM »
sorry.. i meant we have it has bordesley island not bordesley circus
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 07:43:07 PM »
The Shop is the old tattooist shop that was at the junction of Camp Hill and Coventry Rd. Some year later the flyover would have been over the photographers head.
 
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 07:56:08 PM »
cheers phil.
so would that be coventry rd on the left of the photo and camp hill on the right going up hill towards camp hill circus
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2012, 09:02:07 PM »
That is quite correct in each detail. Here are another couple of images, one pre flyover and one after.
 
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2012, 10:18:08 PM »
hi everyone.. can anybody tell me where exactly this photo is in bordesley. we have it has bordesley circus but are not to sure of the exact location. does any one have a map? this is just to satisfy our curiosity
many thanks in advance
baznkaz
hi from the photo the factory on the left looks to be Dowding and Mills i once applied for a job there , but i thought this came under cheepside. alan

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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2012, 08:06:10 AM »
thanks again for the quick responses and help

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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2012, 04:04:31 PM »
Phil,
     There is something not quiet clear with the photo )37.89 posted by Baz !!!
If your assumption is correct;that it is prior fly over,then the background to the photo should have been the houses on the corner of Bedford rd and not Dowding and Mills.
These houses and the top of Bordsley station can be seen clearly in your photo (50.66 kB
Dowding and Mills was 100 yards further up the hill towards Bradford st. O0

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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2012, 04:49:35 PM »

* BORDESLEY ISLAND.jpg                               (37.89 kB, 559x399 - viewed 67 times.)
 
looking at the road on the left by the bus its says M1 and the one above says coventry so its a far chance its the start of the cov road  thats what it looks like to me
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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2012, 05:19:12 PM »
Roy,
      There is no doubt,it is the begining of the Coventry Rd,at the bottom of Camp Hill.
What is in question is the existence of the Downing and mills factory,in that position at that time.If you look towards Camp Hill you will notice the cars parked out side the actual position of Dowding and mills. O0

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Re: help please.. where is this photo exactly in bordesley
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2012, 05:29:44 PM »
gee gee could Dowding and mills been a new build
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