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I've lived and worked near England's Second City for almost 25 years now, and I've grown inexplicably fond of the knackered old craphouse.  Have some grim pics of dubious rammel...

 

 

 

Gooch Street, Highgate, 1967

 

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Stratford Road, Sparkhill, same year.  Have you ever seen two Victor 101 estates in the same place at the same time?

 

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St. Chad's Circus on what was the A4400 inner ring road.  Everything you see here apart from the cathedral has gone...

 

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College Road, Handsworth, 1971

 

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Congreve Street, which no longer exists.  Criminally, John Madin's Brutalist masterpiece in the second pic will soon suffer the same fate...

 

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Stephenson Street, with Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac parked outside New Street station.  Everything on the right of the lower photo has been replaced by the shiny new retail opportunity/afterthought station which opened officially today...

 

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