EPW053753 ENGLAND (1937). The Central Fire Station, Aston Street and environs, Birmingham, 1937

This was originally the Delicia cinema; built in 1923. Soon after WW2, it was taken over by the BBC. However, part of the right side wing and basement was the Auto Spring Company. It was a wholesale supplier of car components.

Gosta Green Library

Greaves Place

Princip Street

Vesey Street

Lench Street

OLD GENERAL HOSPITAL

sacks of potatoes pub

Loveday Street and Loveday Street Hospital. Demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the more modern General Hospital.

Gem Street with Bishop Ryder Church

Molland Street

Central Fire Station. Fond memories of fire displays here when they would play jets of coloured water up the hose drying tower to 'The Posthorn Gallop'as the grand finale.

St Mary's. A lost square of Old Birmingham. By the time this photograph was taken it had already lost its octagonal church and my 4GGrandfather's butcher's shop in Weaman Row.

The King Edward PH. A wonderful building from about 1905 but now sadly unoccupied.

The Aston University buildings now stand here.

Gosta Green

The BBC Theatre, then the Arts Lab. Who knows what it is now.

I have been told that the old public fountain has survived and was re-located. Yet to find it though.

Good grief. It's the Duke of York PH in Duke Street. Sadly long gone. It was the last street in Birmingham to have its gas lights removed.