Birmingham - New Street & Post Office from Town Hall 1955 - postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Birmingham 1955 New Street from the Town Hall showing a berimed head post office, Galloway's Corner was demolished in 1970.
• Publisher:  Midland Postal Board MPB Card 9.3
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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New Street is a street in central Birmingham, England (grid reference SP069867). It is one of the city's principal thoroughfares and shopping streets. It gives its name to Birmingham New Street railway station, although the station has never had direct access to New Street except via the Pallasades Shopping Centre.

New Street is first mentioned as novus vicus in the surviving borough rental records of 1296, at which point it was partly built upon with burgage plots,^[1] but was also the site of most of the few open fields remaining within the borough, including Barlycroft, Stoctonesfeld and Wodegrene.^[2] It is mentioned again, this time as le Newestret in the rentals of 1344-1345.^[3] The street may have been created at the time of the establishment of Birmingham's market in 1166, as a more direct route from the centre of the new town at the Bull Ring to the home of the de Birmingham family's feudal overlords at Dudley Castle.^[4]

The street underwent large development during the 18th and 19th century and in an 1840s guide, shortly after the building of the Town Hall it is described as ""the Bond Street of Birmingham; what with its glittering array of shops, its inns; its fine Elizabethan School, its School of Arts, its Theatre, its Post-office, it gives the tone to that part of the town.""

In 1974, the Birmingham pub bombings took place in two pubs; one on New Street, the other under the Rotunda. A total of 21 people died as a result of their injuries in these blasts.^[5]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=warwickshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted