Birmingham 4
Heading for a brighter future.
By now unoccupied and unloved, the less than salubrious Nelson Subway, constructed in the early 1960s as part of the first Bullring development, never aged particularly well and adopted the downtrodden jaded look of many of the so-called brutalist concrete constructions of that period.
Not long after this shot was taken the subway was closed and demolished to make way for the second Bullring development project in the early 2000s.
The optician advertised, Maxton Saunders, is apparently still doing business on the Stratford Road in Sparkhill.
Ilford HP5
May 2000
Birmingham 4
Heading for a brighter future.
By now unoccupied and unloved, the less than salubrious Nelson Subway, constructed in the early 1960s as part of the first Bullring development, never aged particularly well and adopted the downtrodden jaded look of many of the so-called brutalist concrete constructions of that period.
Not long after this shot was taken the subway was closed and demolished to make way for the second Bullring development project in the early 2000s.
The optician advertised, Maxton Saunders, is apparently still doing business on the Stratford Road in Sparkhill.
Ilford HP5
May 2000