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This is not how I'd have preferred to shoot this location; I'd have preferred a faster shutter to freeze the movement of the long grass in the wind. But there's a fault with my aging camera - it should select an ISO depending on the aperture and shutter I am using - but only ever selects 200 - which, for this shot, taken in the shadows of the late evening, was not ideal. However I decided the shot still works. I'll revisit this location, for sure.
Wikipedia: The 5-metre-high (16 ft) steel Millennium Clock at the Fiveways area in the centre of town, designed by local sculptor Jon Mills for the Millennium celebrations, stakes a claim to be a modern landmark
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Five Ways station, Birmingham looking towards the city centre - with a tour boat from Gas Street Basin on the right.
This view of the Story Bridge in Brisbane is taken from the opposite side to that which I uploaded last week. This one looks outbound down Main Street to Wooloongabba where there was a massive fiveways corner in years past that eventually led in many directions including east, south to the Gold Coast and west to Ipswich.
This end commences above the Howard Smith Wharves complex on the top of the cliff in Fortitude Valley ("The Valley") and New Farm. It lands on suburban Kangaroo Point on the other side above Captain Burke Park. If you look carefully you can see the Petrie Bight end of the city on the right side of the bridge and also get the impression of the near 180 degree loop the river forms here. Upstream is to the right along Eagle Street.
You can walk to the top of the bridge but it isn't as tall as the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Came across this in a back garden in Sandgate Road whilst poking round the Open Houses at Fiveways at the weekend. This artist's fascinating little workspace was also home to dozens and dozens of vintage Penguin books. Briliant!
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A view of the Fiveways Roundabout in Birmingham from the hotel I was staying in recently. Taken through the glass of the window!
This is the link around Morrisons from Harborne Rd to the Hagley Rd. It was a wet dark night and I thought this made the supermarket look interesting
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The Norman Hotel was built in 1889 for Robert Heaslop to a design from the office of John B. Nicholson. It is a brick hotel prominently sited at the corner of Qualtrough Street on the busy Ipswich Brisbane Road.
In 1859, at the time of Separation from New South Wales, the road between Brisbane and Ipswich was considered by the incoming Governor of Queensland to be the only good road in Queensland and is still a major thoroughfare. At this time, quite a number of Europeans lived around the junction of the five tracks that were to become the Woolloongabba Fiveways, though it was not then thought of as a residential area. In June 1864 William Qualtrough purchased Lots 72 and 73 of Sub 167 on the Ipswich Road. He died in 1870 and left the land to his widow, Elizabeth.
In the 1880s Woolloongabba developed quickly, together with the adjoining suburbs of East Brisbane, Buranda and Stones Corner, following the expansion of the railway and tramway systems and the growth of associated commerce and light industry. In 1881 a dry dock was established at South Brisbane and the nearby coal wharves were linked to a railway goods yard at Woolloongabba in 1884. The first (horse drawn) trams in Brisbane ran between Woolloongabba and Newstead in 1885 and had reached Buranda by 1887.
In 1885 Robert Heaslop purchased the Ipswich Road land from Mrs Qualtrough. He appears to have been a member of a family that had retail interests in the area.
South Brisbane and Woolloongabba were amalgamated to form the City of South Brisbane in 1888 and in the following year the first Post Office opened in Woolloongabba and was serviced by tram. The area was booming, as was the Queensland economy generally, and Robert Heaslop chose this year to build a substantial hotel on his land, registering a mortgage on the title for £3500 in November 1889. The expansion of the population in the area is reflected in the building of other hotels at the time, such as the Woolloongabba Hotel (1887), the Railway Hotel (1889) and Burke's Hotel (1890). Heaslop's new hotel was built by F Steffans and designed by John B Nicholson.
John Beauchamp Nicholson was born in 1852 in Surry and arrived in Brisbane around 1876. After working as a clerk and foreman for the contractor and later architect, Andrew Murphie and for plumber Hiram Wakefield, he set up an architectural office in October 1885. He worked in partnership with Constantin Mathea between 1886 and January 1887, with J Sinclair Ferguson and with Alfred R L Wright from March 1890 until going into involuntary liquidation in January 1891. During these few years, Nicholson's office designed a variety of handsome and substantial buildings including Lady Musgrave Lodge in 1891 and the 1888 Princess Theatre at Woolloongabba, though a good proportion of the work catered for the liquor trade and included a number of fine hotels and the Lion Brewery in Townsville.
The Norman Hotel opened in June 1890 with Heaslop as the first licensee. To fulfil the conditions of the 1885 Licensing Acct, the licensee had to live on the premises, so the license was quickly transferred to Henry Marsden, previously publican of the Bowen Hotel in South Brisbane. Heaslop was able to keep an eye on the premises, however, living just across the road from the hotel. Marsden remained as licensee until 1892 when J C Hauer briefly held the license before it was transferred to Samuel Heaslop, possibly a relative of the owner. In December 1896 the hotel was leased to Percy Hubbard at 5.10.0 per week. The lease was transferred to John Dwyer in July 1897, though the licence continued in Hubbard's name until 1898. John, then Mary Dwyer, held the licence until 1900, when the brewing company of Perkins & Co purchased the hotel.
Perkins & Co was one of two breweries, established by Irish families, who had first set up business in Castlemaine, Victoria. Perkins and the Castlemaine Brewery had established breweries in Brisbane and competed for trade. Both undertook the purchase of hotels as 'tied houses' selling only their own beer as part of this competition, Perkins purchasing Burke's Hotel in 1901 and Castlemaine the nearby Broadway Hotel in 1917. Perkins & Co leased the Norman Hotel to a series of publicans and in 1928 the Castlemaine Brewery and Quinlan Gray and Company purchased Perkins & Co. Ltd.
From 1900 the Woolloongabba area experienced a slow decline and the hotel, though changing licensees, remained much the same. The main bar was renovated in the 1960s, though little other change occurred until the late 20th century. In 1987 the Cavill family of hoteliers purchased the Norman Hotel. They purchased adjoining land and added a beer garden and outdoor eating area, the steakhouse opening in 1988. In the process of the redevelopment, several detached structures were removed from the rear of the property including stables and an air raid shelter.
The hotel has been renovated and some walls have been removed on the upper floor to create two function rooms. On the ground floor the entrance hall area has been little changed, but the dining room, kitchen, pantry and spirit room have been removed and the space is now used as a gaming area. The main bar on the other side of the hall has been reduced in size and now opens on to the courtyard area through glass folding doors.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
The Broadway Hotel was built in 1889 - 1890 for Brisbane publican Michael McKenna, formerly of the nearby Woolloongabba Hotel. The Brisbane architectural firm John Hall & Son executed the design and the builders were Wooley & Whyte, who won the contract with a tender price of £4,820. Tenders were called in July and August 1889, and McKenna was advertising for custom by mid-October 1890.
John Hall & Son were an established Brisbane architectural practice, whose late 1880s Brisbane hotels included the Oriental Hotel, corner of Albert and Mary Streets (1885 - 1886), the Pineapple Hotel, Main Street, Kangaroo Point (1886 - 1887), the Brisbane Bridge Hotel, Stanley Street, South Brisbane (1886 - 1887), the Treasury Hotel, corner of George and Elizabeth Streets (1887 - 1888), the Junction Hotel, corner of Logan and Cleveland Roads, Stones Corner (1887 - 1888), Graham's Hotel, Stanley Street, South Brisbane (1887 - 1888), the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Gympie Road, Kedron (1888), the Broadway Hotel, corner of Logan Road and Balaclava (Short) Street, Woolloongabba (1889 - 1890) and Burke's Hotel at the intersection of Annerley and Stephens Roads, South Brisbane (1889 - 1890). In 1890 they were also the successful competition winners for the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers. Architect John Smith Murdoch, Chief Architect of the Commonwealth 1926 - 1930, worked in John Hall & Son's office from the late 1880s to 1893, and according to architect JVD Coutts, was responsible for the design of the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers and the Broadway and Burke's hotels.
The site at the corner of Logan Road and Balaclava (Short) Street had been transferred to McKenna in January 1889. The location was a prominent one, close to the intersection of Wellington and Logan roads, the latter being a major Brisbane arterial road. In the second half of the 1880s, the East Brisbane-Woolloongabba-Buranda-Stones Corner-Coorparoo areas experienced a population and housing boom, largely associated with the expansion of Brisbane's railway and tramway systems. The first section of the tramway along Logan Road extended to Maynard Street, Buranda and opened in 1887. The new Broadway Hotel, located prominently to take advantage of the increased traffic flow between Brisbane and the eastern suburbs, was an imposing structure designed to attract attention, and rapidly became a well-known local landmark.
The substantial three-storeyed hotel was designed to cater for country visitors as well. When opened in 1890, the attendant advertising in The Southern World of the 22nd of October emphasised the proximity of the new hotel to the Woolloongabba fiveways, and that country visitors would be well catered for with superior accommodation. This included single and double bedrooms, bathrooms, and drawing rooms, with luxurious and comfortable appointments throughout. The hotel offered Extensive and Superior Stabling and trams and buses passed the hotel every five minutes.
McKenna remained the proprietor and licensee until 1903, when he leased the hotel to a succession of licensees. In 1917 he sold the property to the Castlemaine Brewery of Quinlan Gray & Co. From 1949 until the early 1980s the licensees were Ron and Ivy Hogarth. In the mid-1980s the hotel was bought by Quetel Pty Ltd and in 1987 was leased to Pub Revive Pty Ltd who undertook a program of refurbishment.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
'Peak' class 46 diesel 46015 heads the 1139 Newcastle - Bristol through Five Ways on the recently revamped Birmingham Cross City Line on 27 May 1978. Kodak Ektachrome 64 scan
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Claude Auchinleck (1884 - 1981) was a British Army commander during the Second World War.
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On a dull and grim December's day, we find a different VDL SB200, Wight Pulsar 2, operational at Wrexham depot.
This example arrived from Merseyside on Wednesday, where it has been operational at Speke depot for a number of months. It was new to St Helens depot and until the early part of this year, had been operational there since new.
2971 with a slight coating of road grime, due to December conditions, operates a 2 Oswestry to Wrexham, and swings around the Fiveways Roundabout, known by all locals as the Orthopaedic Roundabout due to the nearby The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.
1989 Citroen BX 16 Valve.
Supplied by Fiveways Garage of London (telephone number on dealer tag is 01-851 7531).
West Midlands Travel chose Metrobus 3068 to be Birmingham's 'Centenary of transport' heritage bus. The newly delivered bus was decorated with images of various modes of public transport that had served the city from 1889 - 1989.
Looking a little grubby, 3068 is pictured on Calthorpe Road, Fiveways, Birmingham in 1991. The damaged front roof dome was replaced before the bus was painted out of this livery.
History for 3068 (courtesy of wmbusphotos.com)
3/89 - New to Acocks Green Garage
7/89 - To Birmingham Central Garage
10/89 - Returned Acocks Green
Late 91 - early 92 - bus painted out of its heritage livery
7/94 - Transferred to Wheatley Street, Coventry
7/09 - Withdrawn from use
14/8/09 - Sold to Ashman, Great Addington, Northants.
5/16 - Sold into preservation. No further information.
Birmingham's number 8 bus service, also known as the Inner Circle was a bus route inherited by West Midlands PTE from Birmingham City Transport in 1969. The Inner Circle route serves Saltley - Nechells - Hockley - Fiveways - Sparkbrook - Small Heath - Bordesley - and back to Saltley, and operates to this day.
Back in 1974, former Birmingham City Transport, Fleetline 3307 is captured working the Inner Circle, turning from Arden Road into St Saviours Road at Saltley.
The corner shop, once a cycle and radio sales business was by 1974, selling luggage. The scene from this angle is still recognisable today. The corner shop remains, but much of the original terraced housing to the left of picture on Arden Road has long since gone.
New in 1963, 3307 never ventured far from the city scape, serving at a number of Birmingham bus garages until its withdrawal in 1980.
Trundling along Hagley Road is 4738 it is an Ailsa-Volvo B55-15 with Alexander H44/35F body The large building on the left is Tricorn House (Sidney Kaye, Eric Fermin & Partners 1973-74) and centre right iis Auchinleck House, complete with the fine original mosaic (now lost)
Peter Shoesmith (undated)
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West Midlands Railway Class 323 EMU 323241 arrives into Five Ways station working service 2U20 09.31 Redditch to Four Oaks.
After a fair bout of snow the previous day, the sun came out into the next day, providing a quick photo opportunity close to home. Here this VDL SB200, Wright Pulsar 2, operates on a 2 Wrexham to Oswestry journey. It come off the Fiveways Roundabout or better known locally as the Orthopaedic Roundabout due to the hospital been close by, joins onto the B5069 for the last section of road into Oswestry.
During the early to mid 1990s, WMT occasionally used their two Daimler Fleetline open toppers (3867 & 4069), on service during the summer months, mainly as a novelty. 3867 a rebuilt low-bridge accident victim passes The International Convention Centre' off Broad Street, Birmingham.
7th August 1992.
This was the mid 1980's, a good time if you were upwardly mobile and middle class. Hair was neat but collar length, shoes were shiny and suits and ties were expected at the office. White collar workers carried natty little black executive brief cases in shiny hard plastic, mine had OHMS* on it.
The discussion at the wine bar was either about property or those awful car workers, forever on strike.
Peter took this view of the back of a TracLine/65 liveried bus, MCW 8109, it was working the 65 route part of which was a guided busway. These buses later reverted to normal MCW's and were re-numbered, A109 WVP went on to serve M Travel in Castleford.
In the background is Five Ways with Auchinleck House with the distinctive wavy roof and mural, Peter was in Harborne Road just a few minutes walk from his office.
*OHMS in my case (or on my case) stood for "Only Holds My Sandwiches"
Peter Shoesmith.
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A Derby class 116 dmu forming a service for Longbridge passes Five Ways station. I'm not familiar with the area but I believe that the pathway to the right once carried a rail connection to a goods depot.
Known these days as the Moreton Rubber Works for its prominent but now repainted ghost sign, this building at 10-14 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane was originally known as the Taylor-Heaslop Building when completed in 1890. It served many functions on what was one of the busy roads leading from the Woolloongabba Fiveways intersection to the Gold Coast over the years.
For cricket fans, the "Gabba" cricket ground is just over behind the building, also, on current rumours the probable rebuilt site for the main stadium for the 2032 Olympic Games if Brisbane is awarded the honour in a month or two's time. Life will go full circle for this building if that is the case from boom to bust and way back again.
Long bypassed by the South East Freeway and other roads, Logan Road is now a quiet dead end rehabilitated with coffee shops etc as is the way these days including the subject building of this shot.
The history of the building as related in Wikipedia is quite lengthy so here is the link if you would like to read it.