OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

DARTMOUTH SQUARE END

 DARTMOUTH SQUARE c1900s

Unused Postcard Published by Valentines taken from Dartmouth Square. Perry's shop behind the fountain later become Broadheads

HIGH STREET c1915s

Taken from the Dartmouth Square end of the Town, with St Michaels Church spire on the left with the Town Hall spire behind that. Shops on the right include Weldons Fashions and J. W. Haylock Ltd

VERY EARLY HIGH STREET SCENE

This is a realy early scene of The High Street, taken from around about where Woolworths is now. If you compare this scene with the next scene above this one, you will notice that St Michaels church spire is not built and all you can see in the distance is the Town Hall spire


TRAM LINES, DARTMOUTH SQUARE c1915
Buses by Timothy Whites, High St, Dartmouth Square c1950s

 
 DARTMOUTH SQUARE 1960s
Showing Broadhead's and the clock on the left, Timothy Whites and Burton's tailors on the right. Broadhead's has long gone and Pizza Hut now takes it's place and if you look closley, right underneath the clock, you will see the disabled Newspaper Seller Lionel Peel who was well known around the town