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| About 104-102 New Street (numbers later changed), c. 1860-1870. Held at Birmingham Archive. |
See other Georgian terraces.
Even in Victorian Birmingham the central streets of the town, like New Street, still contained grand residential properties, like 103 New Street where the Wilkes family lived. The house in which they lived was a fine Georgian townhouse, one of many built in the 1700s, but few remained as residential properties in Birmingham's main shopping streets. The photograph might show the property shortly after it was vacated, and then, of course, demolished. Today, this is about where Hotel Chocolat and Blue Banana are. When the photograph was taken, there were still net curtains at the window.