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This relaxing 1935 image shows the site of the present Marriott Hotel at Five Ways Island. The
photographer is standing at approximately the front entrance of the
hotel. The only things in this picture which still exist are the Lloyds
Bank on the right of the picture which has been there since 1908 and the
clock (erected in 1887) which was removed and renovated when the traffic
island was constructed. It was replaced close to its original position
on the grass verge dividing the approach roads of Calthorpe Road and
Harborne Road. The buildings in the centre of the image became the 1960s
shopping centre development of Auchinleck Square with the high-rise
Auchinleck House towering over the present day underpass and roundabout. The new roadway opened at the tail-end of the 1960s.
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