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pickard.r

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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2012, 09:26:19 AM »
I remember going in there with my Dad in the early 60's I think It was, before the coming of computerisation, and we seemed to spend ages looking through actual old newspapers  reading accounts of W.W.2. 
We went there a couple of times during that period while Mom was being pushed from pillar to post in the rag alley, he sometimes took the opportunity to "skive" off for a while and sometimes I was lucky enough to go with him. I think he used the excuse of "taxing the car" because If I remember rightly the only place you could Tax a car was somewhere off Broad Street.


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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2012, 02:30:18 PM »
Bobby
 
The motor taxation department was in Oozells St just off Broad Street. In this photo it is the larger of the factory type buildings at the end of the street. I have spent many unhappy hours there in queues that snaked out of the building and up the road.
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2012, 02:58:58 PM »

Hi Phil
Thanks for that, I had long forgotten that place till now.I can barely remember going there one day with Dad (I,m sure it was a Saturday morning) and yes, I think I do remember a long Queue.
Wasn't the Council building "Bush House" I think it was called, somewhere nearby? Went there once with my Mum on the bus to collect the keys to our new house in Druids Heath.
Exciting stuff eh? ;)


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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2012, 03:36:17 PM »
Bobby
 
I believe that Bush House was on the corner of the next road along Broad Street to Oozells St. On the corner of Cumberland Street in fact.
 
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2012, 10:32:58 AM »
Judging by the Robinson's van outside, the Council must have just moved in...
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2012, 12:10:40 PM »
Yes Bobby I think you are right, it looks like they are just adding the finishing touches.
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2012, 03:33:43 PM »
Judging by the Robinson's van outside, the Council must have just moved in...

Or maybe they have been evicted for not paying the rent???   ;D
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2012, 03:53:03 PM »

Or maybe they have been evicted for not paying the rent???   ;D
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2012, 06:36:36 PM »
Oozells St was the B,hams motor tax centre last building on the right.Dek

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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2012, 02:56:15 PM »
The difference between romanticism and reality.
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Re: Images of the City
« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2012, 11:08:52 PM »
I agree with what youa re saying phil, and am sure that a lot of similar differences could be found for representations of other sites. To be fair , th eversion I have of thephoto states c 1885, so it was 10 years later, The sixties bull ring went down quite a bit in the same period of time


 

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