Looking at this photo on the main site, do any of you know the reason a hump/bridge was built at the Corporation Street/Bull Street junction?
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/gonebatches/2001-2435/2298.html
Quote from: Squirrel on January 23, 2015, 05:52:27 PM
Looking at this photo on the main site, do any of you know the reason a hump/bridge was built at the Corporation Street/Bull Street junction?
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/gonebatches/2001-2435/2298.html
There used to be a pedestrian subway including some shops under that hump!
Quote from: Tony on January 23, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
Quote from: Squirrel on January 23, 2015, 05:52:27 PM
Looking at this photo on the main site, do any of you know the reason a hump/bridge was built at the Corporation Street/Bull Street junction?
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/gonebatches/2001-2435/2298.html
There used to be a pedestrian subway including some shops under that hump!
had forgotten that Tony, when was that?
Quote from: Stuharris 6360 on January 23, 2015, 06:25:01 PM
Quote from: Tony on January 23, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
Quote from: Squirrel on January 23, 2015, 05:52:27 PM
Looking at this photo on the main site, do any of you know the reason a hump/bridge was built at the Corporation Street/Bull Street junction?
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/gonebatches/2001-2435/2298.html
There used to be a pedestrian subway including some shops under that hump!
had forgotten that Tony, when was that?
Lasted until the mid 1970s
Lasted longer than that surely? I remember the subway there and only been resident in this city since 1989
Quote from: Kevin on January 23, 2015, 07:44:50 PM
Lasted longer than that surely? I remember the subway there and only been resident in this city since 1989
But I don't think the shops (there was a centrally located newsagent) lasted into the 1980s. I may be wrong
Quote from: Tony on January 23, 2015, 07:50:15 PM
Quote from: Kevin on January 23, 2015, 07:44:50 PM
Lasted longer than that surely? I remember the subway there and only been resident in this city since 1989
But I don't think the shops (there was a centrally located newsagent) lasted into the 1980s. I may be wrong
I first came to Birmingham in 1999, the Bull Street hump was still there, think it went sometime around 2000 or 2001. I'm sure there was a Greggs still open down there at the time.
Quote from: Tony on January 23, 2015, 07:50:15 PM
Quote from: Kevin on January 23, 2015, 07:44:50 PM
Lasted longer than that surely? I remember the subway there and only been resident in this city since 1989
But I don't think the shops (there was a centrally located newsagent) lasted into the 1980s. I may be wrong
I think the shops were there in the 80s as I recall the newsagents had an impressive collection of top shelf adult literature (as most subway newsagents of that era seemed to). I was at junior school in the 70s so don't think I'd have been looking out for that sort of stuff then.
I'm pretty sure there was still a newsagents still open in the subway until the late 1990s. I think it was filled in and flattened in around 1999/2000
Very interesting, thanks for the response, anyone got any photos of it?
Thanks muchly
Didn't think it was that long ago