Birmingham--fifty Years onA look at Birmingham as it was in 1952 with the author's predictions for Birmingham's future. |
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acres aeroplane already architect Architect's Drawing arterial roads back-to-back houses background Bath Row Redevelopment become Bomb-damaged bottom BOURNVILLE VILLAGE TRUST Bristol Road Broad Street BROMSGROVE buildings built Cathedral CENTRAL BIRMINGHAM cinema City of Birmingham Civic Centre Colmore Row community centres congested Conurbation Corporation Street diag Duddeston Elmdon entertainment ERDINGTON factories fifty flats forecast future Government Grahame-White HALL OF MEMORY HARBORNE Hurst Street increase inner ring road KING'S NORTON land living MOSELEY SELLY OAK multi-storey municipal Neighbourhood Centre Nevertheless open space period PERRY BARR photograph Playground population present programmes railways replace ribbon development RIVER REA ROADS AND TRAFFIC Row Redevelopment Area ROW REDEVELOPMENT SCHEME schools SELLY OAK shopping centre slums SMETHWICK Snow Hill Station social pattern SOLIHULL STATION STREET Street and Corporation Street Station SUB-STANDARD HOUSES suburban shopping SUTTON COLDFIELD Theatre Precinct to-day Town Hall TUNNEL University WEST BROMWICH HANDSWORTH West Midland