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Just before the old terminal platforms closed,an enterprising clerk must have taken it upon himself to arrange for this colourful collection to be printed and sold.
It is hard to imagine the constant procession of freight and passenger trains,4 years previous to this image.
I think my father was photographing these services in Conjunction with the closure of Birmingham Snow Hill. In this one aTysley single car DMU is seen in Snow Hill waiting to leave on the 16.58 to Langley Green.
A stroll along the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal in central Birmingham - overlooked by The BT Tower
Construction of the tower commenced in July 1963 and was completed in September 1965. The tower became operational in December 1966 and was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Alderman James S. Meadows on 5 October 1967
The youthful Peter must have been delighted when on the 14th July 1951 this locomotive arrived at Birmingham. 46223 Pricess Alice is at the head of a train from the Wolverhampton direction, she is just clear of Navigation St bridge.
I think she was in B.R. blue to guess by the cab side lining The loco was built at Crewe 31/07/1937 and was withdrawn 31/10/1963 from 66A Polmadie (Glasgow) she has the slope at the top of the smokebox where the streamlining was.
The former Vodafone store at the corner of Corporation Street and New Street in Birmingham.
Princes Chambers.
Preserved Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) Type 3 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive D6501 at North Weald Station on the heritage Epping Ongar Railway (EOR) in Essex (UK).
D6501 was built for British Railways by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company at Smethwick Birmingham in 1959 and entered preservation as British Rail Class 33, 33002 after an eventful few years in January 2005.
D6501 was a special guest locomotive at the EOR courtesy of South Devon Diesel Traction.
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My Epping Ongar Railway album flic.kr/s/aHskCyJy6u
Norwood is a neighborhood of Birmingham in the Northside community, in the "North Highlands" north of downtown.
Norwood was developed by the Birmingham Realty Company beginning in 1910 with B. B. Merriweather as lead surveyor. It was named for Stanley Norwood, a friend of Birmingham Realty president Leslie Fullenweider. The neighborhood was planned as a streetcar suburb centered on Norwood Boulevard, along the same lines as the development around Highland Avenue in Southside. The central 1.5-mile boulevard's 200-foot right of way included space for the Norwood Streetcar Line as well as broad landscaped park-like medians.
Billed as "The Placid Place", the developers touted the neighborhood's convenience to downtown as well as its removal from the smoke and noise of the city center. Other amenities promised by the marketers included "gracious neighbors", fully integrated utility services, and modern architecture. Houses sprang up along the boulevard almost before it was completed, including "Tennessee Row", a group of homes built by families hailing from Tennessee.
As large houses were being constructed on the boulevard, other development followed. The Realty Company erected a commercial building with a grocery store, meat market and dairy. The neighborhood was chosen by Charles Carraway in 1916 as the site for what came to be known as Norwood Hospital before it was renamed for him.
Nevertheless, the beginnings of the neighborhood's slow, steady decline began in the 1930s as automobile ownership made it possible for affluent families to move out of Jones Valley altogether. The developers of Mountain Brook and other "Over the Mountain" suburbs advertised larger homesites absolutely free from the smoke and haze of the city. Cheaper cars and social insecurity in the wake of school integration combined to spur white flight from Birmingham after World War II. In 1968 the construction of I-20/59 through downtown severed Norwood from the city center, furthering its decline.
In recent years young homebuyers have mounted a renewal of the neighborhood, newly-appreciated for its architectural quality and convenience to downtown. In 2006 students from the Auburn University Urban Studio met with the Norwood Neighborhood Association to prepare a long-range comprehensive physical plan for the area. For more info on the efforts to revive Norwood, click on the following link: www.historicnorwood.com/