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Pictures: Brumpic's scenes of Birmingham from yesterday

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Tamlyn JonesBusiness Reporter

11:24, 12 DEC 2014
Updated12:19, 12 DEC 2014

Looking back along New Street from the junction with Worcester Street in 1963 (Image: Pic: John Ball/Brumpic)1 of 18
Birmingham Council House main entrance after cleaning in 1964 (Image: Pic: John Ball/Brumpic)2 of 18
Looking down New Street from Victoria Square in 1963 with Galloways corner on the left (Image: Pic: John Ball/Brumpic)3 of 18
Looking along Smallbrook Queensway at night in 1963 (Image: Pic: John Ball/Brumpic)4 of 18
Broadbent's corner in Mill Lane, Digbeth, taken in 1954 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)5 of 18
View east along Tangmere Road to Castle Bromwich aerodrome site (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)6 of 18
Colmore Row in 1953 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)7 of 18
Houses built in circa 1710 in Temple Row. Photo taken in July 1957, two months before their demolition to make way for a new Rackhams building (now House of Fraser) (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)8 of 18
Gaumont cinema, Colmore Circus, in 1965 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)9 of 18
St. Paul's Church and the GPO Tower viewed from Caroline Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, in 1966 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)10 of 18
Bull Ring street market showing barrows along the roadside (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)11 of 18
Corner of Bennetts Hill and Waterloo Street (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)12 of 18
Corner of Little Anne Street and Milk Street (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)13 of 18
Entrance to motorcycle manufacturer BSA Works, in Armoury Road, Small Heath (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)14 of 18
High Street, Bull Street and corner of Dale End, in 1960 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)15 of 18
Street vendors at old Bull Ring market looking towards St Martin's Church. Last day for street trading here was September 12, 1959 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)16 of 18
Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter, looking towards Chamberlain Clock in 1967 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)17 of 18
Birmingham Council House, in Victoria Square, with decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953 (Image: Pic: Phyllis Nicklin/Brumpic)18 of 18

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