Corporation Street hump

[Squirrel]

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

[Tony]

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!

[Stuharris 6360]

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?

[Tony]

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

[Kevin]

Lasted longer than that surely? I remember the subway there and only been resident in this city since 1989

[Tony]

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

[Cheese]

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.

[Mike K]

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.

[Gareth]

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

[Squirrel]

Very interesting, thanks for the response, anyone got any photos of it?

Thanks muchly

[Solo1]

Didn't think it was that long ago