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Castle Bromwich - The Tame valley downstream viewed from the castle motte - Phyllis Nicklin
"Photograph of the Tame Valley from the castle motte in Castle Bromwich. The view is downstream. On the steep valley sides there are Parkhall woods, on the left Castle Vale estate. City of Birmingham refuse disposal works in Castle Bromwich. The photograph was taken in late 1968." - Phyllis Nicklin
(The M6 Motorway c1970 now runs from the bottom left of this picture to the top right. The motte and bailey are now virtually inaccessible as the Chelmley Collector Road runs along the right-hand side of the castle site which is now considerably more oevrgrown than shown here.)
The late Phyllis Nicklin was a geography tutor at the University of Birmingham who took hundreds of slides of the city during the 1960s. A selection of her work was put up on a website called Chrysalis, a joint venture of various West Midlands academic institutions.
Unfortunately the website no longer appears to be fully functioning, but I found some of it in the Internet Archive at web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20070726172333/http://... and at 62.105.110.193/extras/public.bhtml?library=10032 or 62.105.110.193/search/results.bhtml?collection_id=10032 - no guarantees they’ll work!.
Copyright and database rights in this material belong to MLA West Midlands and the University of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham has kindly made its collections available to download and redistribute for non-commercial purposes. This is subject to the Terms and Conditions available via the Chrysalis Homepage: www.chrysalisinfo.org.uk.
Failing this, the best way to see a selection of the collection is via Keith Berry’s collection of photographs at www.pbase.com/beppuu.
PS Have you seen my ‘History of Birmingham Places & Placenames from A to Y’ at billdargue.jimdo.com ?
Castle Bromwich - The Tame valley downstream viewed from the castle motte - Phyllis Nicklin
"Photograph of the Tame Valley from the castle motte in Castle Bromwich. The view is downstream. On the steep valley sides there are Parkhall woods, on the left Castle Vale estate. City of Birmingham refuse disposal works in Castle Bromwich. The photograph was taken in late 1968." - Phyllis Nicklin
(The M6 Motorway c1970 now runs from the bottom left of this picture to the top right. The motte and bailey are now virtually inaccessible as the Chelmley Collector Road runs along the right-hand side of the castle site which is now considerably more oevrgrown than shown here.)
The late Phyllis Nicklin was a geography tutor at the University of Birmingham who took hundreds of slides of the city during the 1960s. A selection of her work was put up on a website called Chrysalis, a joint venture of various West Midlands academic institutions.
Unfortunately the website no longer appears to be fully functioning, but I found some of it in the Internet Archive at web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20070726172333/http://... and at 62.105.110.193/extras/public.bhtml?library=10032 or 62.105.110.193/search/results.bhtml?collection_id=10032 - no guarantees they’ll work!.
Copyright and database rights in this material belong to MLA West Midlands and the University of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham has kindly made its collections available to download and redistribute for non-commercial purposes. This is subject to the Terms and Conditions available via the Chrysalis Homepage: www.chrysalisinfo.org.uk.
Failing this, the best way to see a selection of the collection is via Keith Berry’s collection of photographs at www.pbase.com/beppuu.
PS Have you seen my ‘History of Birmingham Places & Placenames from A to Y’ at billdargue.jimdo.com ?