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Tower Block Demolition
Topic Started: Jul 9 2011, 02:24 PM (238 Views)
lordnewtown
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Ok a very good friend of mine is doing some uni work this summer looking at tower block demolition in Birmingham but he's told me that the local libraries haven't been a great deal of help.

What I'm looking for here is memories/information from you lot.

Basically, I would like to know about various clusters of tower blocks all over Birmingham, when they were demolished (roughly), what's there now instead and if anyone has pictures or links to pictures, that would be great.

Thanks.
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Bromford Drive

tower block capital of Birmingham :)

if you've driven on the M6 past Fort Dunlop, then you've seen them

a few were knocked down within the last 2 years, right at the very end of Bromford Drive. i dunno what's gonna replace them. there's nothing there at the moment

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birming...97319-22604587/


i used to play knock-door-run in those flats :LOL:


little did i know that i was knocking on the doors of supposed crack dens :)
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this one got knocked down in Bromford


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Bayley Tower
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All seems very interesting, I did see the rubble of them tower blocks from the post above a month or two back, fascinating stuff :whistle:
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When I last to went to Brum for the Wolves game, I went out of the back of New St Station towards John Bright Street (is it?) direction, and saw a tower block in the processing of being stripped down. The strange thing is, I've been down that way hundreds of times before in the past and never noticed a tower block! It's either my age finally getting to me or the fact I was usually bladdered back then whenever I went to Brum.

If that one is going, if it hasn't already gone, what's going to happen to the others by the Pagoda roundabout, seeing as they're Brum's most famous landmarks?
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lordnewtown
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ManicBlue36
Jul 9 2011, 03:02 PM
When I last to went to Brum for the Wolves game, I went out of the back of New St Station towards John Bright Street (is it?) direction, and saw a tower block in the processing of being stripped down. The strange thing is, I've been down that way hundreds of times before in the past and never noticed a tower block! It's either my age finally getting to me or the fact I was usually bladdered back then whenever I went to Brum.

If that one is going, if it hasn't already gone, what's going to happen to the others by the Pagoda roundabout, seeing as they're Brum's most famous landmarks?

Stephenson Tower I believe is the one you're on about.

As for Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers by Pagoda, they're very much still there and even had a refurb a few years back, they ain't going nowhere.
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lordnewtown
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Jul 9 2011, 02:59 PM
this one got knocked down in Bromford


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Bayley Tower

Did Stoneycroft Tower go as well? Weren't they together? (Not as an item)
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lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:12 PM
The Concerned Potato Head
Jul 9 2011, 02:59 PM
this one got knocked down in Bromford


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Bayley Tower

Did Stoneycroft Tower go as well? Weren't they together? (Not as an item)

yeah those are the two that are gone now. mate told me they went down about Spring this year.

the whole situation on Bromford is a shambles. they should have all been knocked down 20 years ago. perfect example of urban planning gone horribly wrong.

when i was growing up. it was a very friendly area, full of new families. when i went down there recently the whole place looked so run down, even the Bromford pub has closed!
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lordnewtown
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Jul 9 2011, 03:32 PM
lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:12 PM
The Concerned Potato Head
Jul 9 2011, 02:59 PM
this one got knocked down in Bromford


Posted Image

Bayley Tower

Did Stoneycroft Tower go as well? Weren't they together? (Not as an item)

yeah those are the two that are gone now. mate told me they went down about Spring this year.

the whole situation on Bromford is a shambles. they should have all been knocked down 20 years ago. perfect example of urban planning gone horribly wrong.

when i was growing up. it was a very friendly area, full of new families. when i went down there recently the whole place looked so run down, even the Bromford pub has closed!

Have they still got the two that look the same at the other end? And the smaller blocks in the middle?

Maybe the area went down hill once YOU moved there.
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lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:59 PM
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Jul 9 2011, 03:32 PM
lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:12 PM
The Concerned Potato Head
Jul 9 2011, 02:59 PM
this one got knocked down in Bromford


Posted Image

Bayley Tower

Did Stoneycroft Tower go as well? Weren't they together? (Not as an item)

yeah those are the two that are gone now. mate told me they went down about Spring this year.

the whole situation on Bromford is a shambles. they should have all been knocked down 20 years ago. perfect example of urban planning gone horribly wrong.

when i was growing up. it was a very friendly area, full of new families. when i went down there recently the whole place looked so run down, even the Bromford pub has closed!

Have they still got the two that look the same at the other end? And the smaller blocks in the middle?

Maybe the area went down hill once YOU moved there.

the 2 flats parallel to eachother by the shops?

yeh they're still there, although there was a major fire in one of them

and yeh the smaller one's are in the middle still

Bromford became a worse place after i left there. very much a ghost town vibe in that area now. lived there for the first 18 years of my life. absolutely amazing place to grow up. and a Bluenose area!
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lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:12 PM
ManicBlue36
Jul 9 2011, 03:02 PM
When I last to went to Brum for the Wolves game, I went out of the back of New St Station towards John Bright Street (is it?) direction, and saw a tower block in the processing of being stripped down.  The strange thing is, I've been down that way hundreds of times before in the past and never noticed a tower block!  It's either my age finally getting to me or the fact I was usually bladdered back then whenever I went to Brum.

If that one is going, if it hasn't already gone, what's going to happen to the others by the Pagoda roundabout, seeing as they're Brum's most famous landmarks?

Stephenson Tower I believe is the one you're on about.

As for Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers by Pagoda, they're very much still there and even had a refurb a few years back, they ain't going nowhere.

A refurb???? I remember when I worked for Royal mail years ago and spoke to some posties who used to deliver there who said druggies or reformed druggies were being housed there, which made it an interesting place. Don't know whether that was true but can only go by what they said.

But what always has seemed as a 60's eyesore, but one day might be looked on differently, and become a treasured piece of heritage. I know that's happened to some blocks in Pompey, where they've now got listed status.
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lordnewtown
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Jul 9 2011, 09:48 PM
lordnewtown
Jul 9 2011, 03:12 PM
ManicBlue36
Jul 9 2011, 03:02 PM
When I last to went to Brum for the Wolves game, I went out of the back of New St Station towards John Bright Street (is it?) direction, and saw a tower block in the processing of being stripped down.  The strange thing is, I've been down that way hundreds of times before in the past and never noticed a tower block!  It's either my age finally getting to me or the fact I was usually bladdered back then whenever I went to Brum.

If that one is going, if it hasn't already gone, what's going to happen to the others by the Pagoda roundabout, seeing as they're Brum's most famous landmarks?

Stephenson Tower I believe is the one you're on about.

As for Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers by Pagoda, they're very much still there and even had a refurb a few years back, they ain't going nowhere.

A refurb???? I remember when I worked for Royal mail years ago and spoke to some posties who used to deliver there who said druggies or reformed druggies were being housed there, which made it an interesting place. Don't know whether that was true but can only go by what they said.

But what always has seemed as a 60's eyesore, but one day might be looked on differently, and become a treasured piece of heritage. I know that's happened to some blocks in Pompey, where they've now got listed status.

You'd be shocked just up the road (Bath Row) from the Pagoda then mate. What was once an estate full of tower blocks, druggies, deprivation, is now a scensoredy apartment area.
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