Aerial view of Park Central
This view shows the construction site just off to the left of Bath Row. The tower block to the middle left is Audleigh House. To the bottom right is St Thomas's Church Tower. It has survived being hit ...
Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre was formerly the Midland Adult School Union (MASU) building. It was taken over by Optima Community Association and used as a centre for all manner of community activities. It has ...
Attwood Green Community Centre, Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street
This was the main staircase at the centre. The sun was saved after the building was cleared for demolition and is now on a wall of the new community flat at 1 Nash House. The handprints just visible to ...
Audio Files: Fred and Pat Meads remember
Author Jackie Gay (left) met up with local residents Pat and Fred Meads. Jackie interviewed the couple, talking about their lives in the area. The photograph was taken by Vanley Burke.
In the streaming ...
Audleigh House and the park construction site
View of the area scheduled for West Park and, in the distance, Audleigh House. Behind Audleigh are the houses lining Lee Bank Middleway.
Balcony on Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. From this balcony you could see over a large part of the redevelopment of the area - in particular the new park.
Bell Barn shopping area
The photograph shows The Woodman Public House, the Bell Barn Shopping centre and Charlecote House. This development was built off Cregoe Street as part of the postwar development of Lee Bank. It has now ...
Blue Fence thinking
Crest Nicholson are currently redeveloping the Lee Bank area. Once an area is scheduled for clearance, fences are put up and then someone has to go around and paint them blue! Not sure why the fences ...
Bristol Street
View looking over Bristol Street towards Highgate. Bristol Street is the road running diagonally along the bottom right of the photograph. The orange building at the bottom to the left of the line of ...
Building the Etap Hotel
The hotel, at the Bristol Street end of great Colmore Street, was constructed in modular fashion. Each room being dropped into place and connected to the next. In the background are the lovely top floors ...
Building work off Wheeley's Lane
Building of new flats by Crest Nicholson. The site is on the corner of Wheeley's Lane and Bath Row. To the rear of the photograph is the old Accident Hospital - formerly the Queen's Hospital.
Clematis along Great Colmore Street
This beautiful clematis attracts admiring glances every spring/ summer along Great Colmore Street. It is in fact grown over the fence of an address in Lytham Croft
Construction site in Lee Bank
Ground prepared for construction near the Middleway blocks. In the distance is Lee Bank Middleway and to the right is Wheeley's Lane.
Cregoe Street 2004
This view is towards what was most famously the site of Bradshaws. The turning to the right is where Irving Street once was and directly opposite was Latimer Street. Bradshaw's Stores stood either side ...
Crest Nicholson: Images of Park Central construction
A collection of photographs showing stages of development in Park Central, part of the Attwood Green redevelopment of the Lee Bank area.
This image is of "Plot 256" which is located off Wheeley's Lane....
Demolition of the Community Centre
The jaws of the digger as it moves in to "bite" another piece from the former Attwood Green Community Centre. The centre was demolished to make way for new developments in the Lee Bank area. Facilities ...
Derelict doorway on Bow Street
Doorway to an overgrown area on Bow Street. At one time this would have opened into a factory which occupied a lot of the ground between here and Irving Street which is located at the end of Bow Street. ...
E.R. Mason Youth Centre - Newsletter March 2005
Page one of the newsletter focussing on the plans for a new youth centre. The Lee Bank area is the subject of major urban renewal, and the youth centre is in the process of relocating to a temporary location ...