Supplied by Stephen Birch from Private Collection HIGH STREET, ERDINGTON NORTH & SOUTH 1898 Two images of the High Street looking from the tower of St. Barnabas Church in 1898 by the great Victorian/Edwardian recorder of our local history; Sir Benjamin John Stone. The first image shows the view from the tower looking South towards Six Ways. looking immediately forward is the circular building of the original Acorn Hotel with its three floors. The building was lowered to two floors in the 1940s before being demolished in the 1960s. Across the High Street are the original houses, open land at the corner of York Road, with houses which eventually were turned into shops near Coton Lane. In the distance the large building with the tower is the Workhouse (HighCroft Hospital). On a slight angle at the end of the High Street the white building is the original Queens Head Inn. The second image looking across the roof of the Church Northward. The smoking chimney of the Old Roebuck Inn. and opposite Easy Row (see image 3). In the background on this foggy morning on the right you can make out the outline of Josiah Mason Orphanage, while on the left the Tower of St. Thomas & Edmund of Canterbury R.C Church (The Abbey) on Sutton Road. Past Easy row on the left of the High Street the row of shops leading to the corner of New Street and then the more prominent row of shops seen in image 4. Leading up to the Village Green in the distance. Image 3. EASY ROW (the old Littlewoods store). Behind this row of houses was the oldest cottage in Erdington. (Featured in earlier post and can be found in the photo gallery). Image 4. ERDINGTON HIGH STREET 1912. The row of shops just past New Street. These were all demolished in the 1960s and form the modern buildings including Wilton Market today. The Village Green can be seen in the background, opposite are the older shops which form the CO-OP buildings today. (There is more about this image in the archive, I have re-used it to put the 2nd rooftop north picture in context.)
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