The New Birmingham c. 1964

Project 30

Location	High Street/Union Street
1964 Status	Complete
2014 Status	Extant
Name	Littlewoods/Boots

The new Littlewood's store, bounded by Union Street and High Street, had opened in 1962.  It included what was described as a, "civic restaurant", and I clearly remember going there as a child in the 1970's.

Fifty years on, the store had been subdivided with a large part occupied by Boots.



Project 30 from the air, c. late 1962.  Photo from the Steve Gosling Archive.




Union Street being pedestrianised, November 1972.  Littlewoods sign visible in the centre.  Photo from the Geoff Thompson Archive.




Project 30 from Union Street, June 2014




Project 30 at the junction of Union Street and High Street, June 2014




Project 30 as viewed from High Street, June 2014

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