Bankers are gone from Bristol Street - Birmingham

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Bankers are gone from Bristol Street - Birmingham

Image: © Martin Richard Phelan Taken: 22 May 2015

This building at the junction of Bristol Street and Essex Street was built in 1890 by Alfred T Greening. The ground floor stonework was added in 1924 to the design of Peacock & Bewlay. The building was at one time I assume the branch of a bank. The stone band above the ground floor windows shows traces of fixings which appear to spell out 'Barclays Bank', I could be wrong on this. These days the only apparent inhabitants of the building are pigeons which fly in and out of the broken windows - it must make fine shelter for them the year round. Time photo taken 11.40 am BST (British Summer Time).

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.47342
Longitude
-1.899258