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Post Options Post Options   Quote Howard_S Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 March 2024 at 11:23
Some useful detail on the buildings up there - thanks!

One last look at the Selfridges exterior - for a while at least,

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As ever with Phil there are rare delights to be found in ordinary street furniture ...

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E VIII R postbox
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This my second example in two days of pillar boxes of which only four of each are documented to survive.

And then there is the Makepeace frontage, described above by Phil,

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G. Makepeace
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Elwyn had joined us and so we had an opportunity for a group-of-four photo,

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This was not far from the former crisp factory with the illustrious history documented by Alan above,

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Grand building
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And down the road you can see the towering facade - too grand for a crisp facory,

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On into the off-street art gallery,

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Car park entrance
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I don't know who Arthur is or was, but Captain Tom .. everyone knows, yes?

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Dystopian ou quoi?

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Things to come?
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And this is where we took the proper group photo (first seen at the top), here edited and straightened, etc.

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Group of photographers
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Jozioau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 March 2024 at 13:21
Great to put faces to names, and to see a bunch of mature codgers actively engaged in meeting, photo walking, taking refreshment with pints of ale (making me nervous at the proximity to expensive albeit moisture proof photo gear), and delivering for the rest of us a virtual tour of an interesting city and its sights.
Quite a variety of subject matter, interestingly captured and presented.
Historic to ultra modern architecture, distorting mirror reflections, street art, rare Edward VIII post box, there's a lot to like here.
Thanks for posting.

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Thanks Joe. Don't go away, lots more to come
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Howard_S Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 March 2024 at 14:19
Mature, us? Thanks for the comments!
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PW16 Jane did not escape!



PW17 My version of our selfie in Allison Street.



Looking down a side street another view of Selfridges - which is about to be dwarfed by a new development by Salhia. A 30ish storey tower and more.

PW18 Salhia



This chap spent most of the time we were in the parking garage (a former metalworks) trying to get the machine to take his payment - he eventually gave up and went to find another machine in the outdoor part of the park.

PW19 Don't you just hate car park machines?



My favourite piece of street art from the day - in the outdoor part of the car park. I found it strangely moving. I've seen the artist's work somewhere else, probably Cheltenham, apparently he is known as Phlegm and has an internation reputation.

PW20 No man is an island?



Alan & Howard have already shown the Brolly Works, an old umbrella parts factory turned into appartments.

PW21 Brolly Works, detail


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Post Options Post Options   Quote alanfrombangor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 March 2024 at 08:34
AC12: Richly decorated house on the corner of Bordesley and Meriden streets.


AC13: Celebrating a multicultural and multi ethnic city.


AC14: Demolition.


AC15: There are ambitious plans to redevelop Digbeth


In the meantime, there's plenty of street art to enjoy, there's a useful story on its background here.
 



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Originally posted by alanfrombangor alanfrombangor wrote:

AC12: Richly decorated house on the corner of Bordesley and Meriden streets.
I thought Richly was a name and I even deed a google search Like the building!
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Wow. Graffiti must be Birmingham's middle name.
I was there 40 years ago. It looked a little overdue in maintenance at the time.
Not that much progress I see.
But I like the scenery and the enormous amounts of selfies. You are children of your time.
Keep them coming
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I am enjoying this thread guys! It seems you had a good day together (like all DM's) Kep them coming!
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Thanks, Phil and Alan, for informative links and background.

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At the sign of the bike
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Unsurprisingly there was a bike workshop here and - more importantly - a café next door. A welcome stop at a community hub that was between operators.

Alan posted the bigger view of this painted Digbeth house, but a closer look shows that everything seems to be in service of the artwork,

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Digbeth detail
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And around the corner,

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Future of Birmingham
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Rotate 180 degrees and we have Phlegm's Bosch-inspired masterpiece,

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Street art by Phlegm
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The BBC article linked to be Alan suggests these street paintings are 5-6 years old. And the distinction is drawn between street art and graffiti,

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Graffiti not art
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The wider site,

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Demolition site
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And the demolition work in progress,

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Demolishing
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A few yards down the road and look right - it's Oxford Street! In the London Monopoly board this is a dark green zone, second only to Mayfair and Park Lane. Here in Brum it's one of the brown, cheaper zones, I suspect.

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Oxford Street
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After a coffee stop we left Allison Street and soon came across this former pub (The Spottted Dog) that has been decorated to celebrate the prospects of 22 young black residents predicted to do great things. Note the inclusion of a post box (Type K).

PW22 The Future of Birmingham



Across the road an old warehouse is disappearing.

PW23 Demolition I



The demolition technique seemed to involved machines tearing apart the building floor by floor, nibbling away at the ceiling and then dumping the debris out of an old window opening.

PW24 Demolition II



Pubs seem to be more resilient than most buidlings, it's not that unusual to come across an isolated boozer like this.

PW25 The Barn



PW26 Delish - where street art become signage



Another boozer called The Ruin (formerly the White Swan, then the Floodgate Tavern, followed by a few short-lived incarnations) inspired by the landlord's exerience of bars in derelict parts of Budapest.

PW27 The Ruin



Lots of street art in Floodgate Street

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PW29 Floodgate II



PW30 Floodgate III



PW31 Floodgate IV



PW31 Floodgate V




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Post Options Post Options   Quote alanfrombangor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 March 2024 at 18:43
Nice bit of research Phil, always good to have some back story. I'm wondering what happened to Danny P.
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Originally posted by alanfrombangor alanfrombangor wrote:

Nice bit of research Phil, always good to have some back story. I'm wondering what happened to Danny P.


Me too - but I haven't found anything yet.
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I found a funeral notice for a Danny P Pedley, who died from cancer at the age of 27 in 2010, but I'm not certain he is the Danny P on the wall.

I thought I had better catch up, at least to the Ruin.

We were trekking along some mean streets,

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Bordesley Street
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And on Little Ann Street the battle between street art and regular old graffiti is being keenly fought,

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Little Ann Street
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Yellow car
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On the corner with Floodgate Street there was a giant,

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Scale
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And on the other corner, the Ruin; forgive my vintage-ish treatment, but it does look like something out of the wild west ...

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The ruin
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