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Kingstanding Together

From the Heritage Archive

Kingstanding, then and now

Same places, decades apart — 25 of them so far. Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys, to travel between an archive photograph and the view later on.

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4 pairs

St Mark’s Church, Kingstanding — St Mark’s Church, 1984 and 2020
The round church on Bandywood Crescent, photographed from almost the same spot thirty-six years apart.
St Mark’s Church The 1984 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, LSH Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0035 (3/1264) · 2020: Andy Mabbett, 2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0

1984: The curved brick wall of St Mark's Church with a metal cross on its face and a van parked alongside. — St Mark’s Church, 1984 and 2020
The round church on Bandywood Crescent, photographed from almost the same spot thirty-six years apart.
St Mark’s Church The 1984 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, LSH Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0035 (3/1264) · 2020: Andy Mabbett, 2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0

1988: The long front of the Hare & Hounds pub with seven dormer windows, the names Hare & Hounds and Mitchells & Butlers in gold, and a grass verge in front — The Hare & Hounds, 1988 and 2011
The Hare & Hounds on Kingstanding Road on 29 August 1988, “when it was still a public house”: seven dormers, tall chimneys and Mitchells & Butlers over the door. By 2011 it was a hand car wash; it was gutted by fire in 2016.
The Hare and Hounds The 1988 picture The 2011 picture
1988: Submitted by a resident of Oscott. Photo courtesy of Lee Lewis (as credited on Voices of Kingstanding). · 2011: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

2011: The long two-storey Hare and Hounds building with dormer windows and tall chimneys behind black railings, its forecourt in use as a valeting centre and hand car wash, with yellow and red signs along the fence. — The Hare & Hounds, 1988 and 2011
The Hare & Hounds on Kingstanding Road on 29 August 1988, “when it was still a public house”: seven dormers, tall chimneys and Mitchells & Butlers over the door. By 2011 it was a hand car wash; it was gutted by fire in 2016.
The Hare and Hounds The 1988 picture The 2011 picture
1988: Submitted by a resident of Oscott. Photo courtesy of Lee Lewis (as credited on Voices of Kingstanding). · 2011: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

1984: A brick hall with a stepped parapet and a curved white rendered frontage bearing the word Billiards, with a car parked outside. — The billiard hall, 1984 and 2011
The Kingstanding Road billiard hall in 1984, its curved white front lettered Billiards. By about 2011 the same building beside the police station was advertising its function room.
The Royal Billiard Hall The 1984 picture The 2010 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, WK K10 0010 (3/1242) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

2010: A white-painted single-storey function-room building with a sign reading “Function Room Available”, a covered wooden smoking area and picket fence in front, a taller brick building behind and a police van parked by the neighbouring police station. — The billiard hall, 1984 and 2011
The Kingstanding Road billiard hall in 1984, its curved white front lettered Billiards. By about 2011 the same building beside the police station was advertising its function room.
The Royal Billiard Hall The 1984 picture The 2010 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, WK K10 0010 (3/1242) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

1984: A small flat-roofed brick building beyond a grass verge with young trees, with 1980s cars parked on the road and houses behind. — The old pumping station site, 1984 and 2010
The old waterworks building on Kingstanding Road, opposite the library, photographed in 1984. The pumping station has gone; its site is now Wheeldon Recreation Ground.
King’s Vale Well and Pumping Station The 1984 picture The 2010 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, LSH Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0046 (3/1272) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

2010: A grassed park with a children’s playground behind a blue arched gateway between brick pillars, seen across a road and a grass verge with young trees; houses line the far side. — The old pumping station site, 1984 and 2010
The old waterworks building on Kingstanding Road, opposite the library, photographed in 1984. The pumping station has gone; its site is now Wheeldon Recreation Ground.
King’s Vale Well and Pumping Station The 1984 picture The 2010 picture
1984: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, LSH Warks Photo Survey WK-K10-0046 (3/1272) · 2010: Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding.

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