At the request of one of the listers in Canada, I went walkabouts round parts of the Jewelry Quarter. Armed with my trusty cameras and my bus-pass, I started walking down Hockley Street, followed by Spencer Street, Kenyon Street, Caroline Street, St Paul's Square, Cox Street and Livery Street. In terms of finding my target buildings the journey was a failure.. they were either demolished or I couldn't find them, however the back-ways of Birmingham always have something of interest and so for me the journey was worthwhile. While I was there I learned that you should not expect house-numbers to be where you expect them to be, and because of this I will have to go back one day to see if some of my missing buildings may not be missing at all, just "misplaced".
These pictures were taken on 13th December 2005.
Monday, January 23, 2006
An appropriately named building and one of great importance, but I'm looking for number 19. This search has been complicated by the realization that on some streets the numbering is not the "odds on one side, evens on the other" to which I am accustomed.
No 21 Spencer Street, but I want no 19, should be next door but it appears to have been swallowed up in the factory block
Looking up Kenyon Street from it's corner with Mary Street. Just to be especially awkward, Kenyon Street is L-shaped.
No 42 caroline Street, next to a car-park, and a building of some character but not the one we wanted!
We wanted no 39 Caroline Street, but it is now part of the car-park. It would probably have been about where the red car is parked on the left of the picture.
A close-up. Note that the time of day varies according to which aspect of the tower you are viewing.
Some of the modern buildings surrounding St Paul's Square, taken from the grounds of St Paul's Church.
The modern flats which occupy most of both sides of Cox Street. One side is Kings Court, the other... wait for it, Queens Court.
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