From Stephen Birch Private Collection. HIGH STREET, ERDINGTON 1922. Previously unseen postcard image of High Street, Erdington, looking up from the old Baptist Church at Six Ways. The lady at the forefront of the photograph looks as though she has forgotten something as she looks toward the camera outside Jones Brothers Garage just in view. The shop immediate on the left with the top bay window and sign bearing The name Birmingham Knitting Co was the last of the row of 5 shops to be demolished in 1937 due to the construction of Sutton New Road which made the left hand side of High Street shorter from 1938. Paynes Shoe Repairs occupied the new corner of High Street and Sutton New Road from the 1940s. The corner of Cotton Lane can be seen in the distance further along the High Street on the left. As featured in a very early photograph of Six Ways in a post on 24th November last year, All the shops on the left seen here in 1922 were built in 1875 as houses with bay windows on the ground floor as well as the first, and with walled gardens. The second image is a close up of the image previously used showing the full row of houses from the bottom of Six Ways in 1884. View from Gravelly Hill North Six Ways. Summer Road on the left and High Street on the right with the walled garden houses before the residences became commercial in the 1900s.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:00:01 +0000
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