You wait fifty odd years

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And then you can watch blurry unsaturated footage of some buses on You Tube. Been scratching my head as to where the main vantage point for this was, but I can’t quite place it (some might be filmed from opposite where the Square Peg is now, maybe?).

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  1. on 5 January 2008 at 5:28 am Andy wrote:

    This clip was filmed in two locations; the first was Broad Street before the development of 5 ways roundabout. The camera is at the junction of Broad Street and Bishopsgate Street. The city centre is to the right and Hagley Road and Calthorpe Road to the left. Towards the end the Broad Street footage you can see a clock in the middle of the road, branch right for Hagley Road and left for Calthorpe Road. The second location is Suffolk Street Queensway. The camera is looking down from what is now Paradise Circus towards Holloway Head roundabout. The bus coming towards the camera and turning right is leaving Suffolk Street Queensway and entering Navigation Street by where the Mail Box now stands.
    Best Regards

  2. on 8 January 2008 at 11:05 am bounder wrote:

    Thanks Andy - shows just how much town has changed over the years.

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