Posted by SIDRAT on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/The-Women-of-SHADO-tp4023705p4024242.html

Hello

This is a very late reply as I just found your site!

I was born and raised in Birmingham and spent my first 56 years there. Last year my US wife and I relocated to the Mid West USA to be closer to her family.

Anyway!

The first photo shows the ladies walking away from what was the TSB Bank Broad Street ( now renamed The Exchange)toward what was The registrar office. The TSB closed many years ago and for about 20 years was owned by Film Birmingham who hired it out as a location. The BBC used it for Hustle and Survivors (the remake). I hired it myself at £400 for a long weekend when I made an amateur film there in 2012 and then again in 2013. You cant get the exact angle on Google Earth but its here. The levelled ground shown is  where the registrar office was - and the statues, later gilded, stood outside for decades. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Broad+St,+Birmingham,+UK/@52.4786862,-1.9083612,159m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4870bcf680620771:0xb1e513880e95969b!8m2!3d52.4763727!4d-1.9127339!16zL20vMDE4eWcy?entry=ttu 



The shot was probably by the bushes in the bottom right of this photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4200083453