terryb18
Gone but not forgotten R.I.P.
I can't find any reference to it anywhere, even on youtube. I presume it was called the Lonnie Donegan Show, though I really cannot remember.
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I can't find any reference to it anywhere, even on youtube. I presume it was called the Lonnie Donegan Show, though I really cannot remember.
Terry
I live in Water Orton but used to drink in the Two Hands for years, right up to it's closure....indeed, my son celebrated his 21st birthday there.
It was an honest, working class pub. I still miss it.
Ian
brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
To be honest i live in this area and it ain't all bad!, Shard End is very diverse. Some of it can be a bit rough but there had been a lot of redevelopment and renovation and some of it has been quite succesful.
I like living here to be honest.
Just to reserect this thread from the dead...........
Kitsland Road shops as I remember them but I could do with anyone else that could put names to the shops. I grew up on berrowside road (adjoining Kitsland) and would visit the shops every Saturday. My step dad even worked in and took over the butchers (Barry Johns butchers) he was the John half
On one side there was:
A bookies
Another shop which name evades me (on the end)
The Wool Shop - called Joyce's (I knew the family)
Browns Discount - was Liptons? (would sell random homewares & toys)
The Greengrocers
Barry johns Butchers - Not sure it was always called this but a really close family friend called 'Dave' was the butcher there for many years before moving to another shop in Shard End Crescent
Another shop which later become a chip shop then the lucky house chinese (which moved to lea village and is still there!) EDIT - I've been told this was a Bakery
An off license on the end
On the other side of the road (and still there)
Hair dressers
Co-Op (this shop became a Mace and bought the shop next door and expanded)
Another shop - this was the one that the mace expanded in to - I have no idea what it was
The Newsagents (now and off license)
The record/odd bits shop
The barbers (Trevors - was it Georges before? Believe it or not he is still there and it still looks exactly the same inside, he must be about 70 now and only opens for a few hours a week)
Can anyone else add to this and fill in the gaps?
Thank you
Alex.
Kitsland Road shops as I remember them but I could do with anyone else that could put names to the shops. I grew up on berrowside road (adjoining Kitsland) and would visit the shops every Saturday. My step dad even worked in and took over the butchers (Barry Johns butchers) he was the John half
On one side there was:
A bookies
Another shop which name evades me (on the end)
The Wool Shop - called Joyce's (I knew the family)
Browns Discount - was Liptons? (would sell random homewares & toys)
The Greengrocers
Barry johns Butchers - Not sure it was always called this but a really close family friend called 'Dave' was the butcher there for many years before moving to another shop in Shard End Crescent
Another shop which later become a chip shop then the lucky house chinese (which moved to lea village and is still there!) EDIT - I've been told this was a Bakery
An off license on the end
On the other side of the road (and still there)
Hair dressers
Co-Op (this shop became a Mace and bought the shop next door and expanded)
Another shop - this was the one that the mace expanded in to - I have no idea what it was
The Newsagents (now and off license)
The record/odd bits shop
The barbers (Trevors - was it Georges before? Believe it or not he is still there and it still looks exactly the same inside, he must be about 70 now and only opens for a few hours a week)
Can anyone else add to this and fill in the gaps?
Thank you
Alex.
Claribel
master brummie
I remember in 1966 When I was a coach driver with Claribel Coaches (The original not the bus company) Picking up the group and some of their supporters from the Custard House in Blake Lane and taking them to the Anvil pub Sutton Coldfield and then a few weeks later I took them to the Adelphi ballroom in West Bromwich for a competition.
Peter.Deakins
New Member
I was involved in the construction of these flats in 1954, 5, and would like to obtain photos please if possible.
Thanks
Thanks
peggygirl
proper brummie kid
hello Alex, The one shop we visited a lot was Reilly's the grocers, next to the wool shop. They sold loose butter that had to be patted up & wrapped in grease proof paper.
We lived in the flats at the bottom of the grove in Hall Hays, we were one of the first families in there abt 1955, it was a lovely estate up until the 80's. My sisters & myself all went too Hillstone Infants & Juniors & then onto Longmeadow Secondry Modern for girls.
Lipton's was down on the Heathway as my aunt worked there.
The 55 bus terminus was next to an old Army camp that was derelict at the time, so coming back from Alum Rock (early days) we disembarked there & walked down Kitsland to get to Hall Hays.
people were talking of pubs as well, but The Raven wasn't mentioned, that was my grandad's local. Does anyone remember Roland O'Neill?
We remember the Austrailian flats been built, we used to play on the site, lost many a shoe in the mud ha!
Sorry can't help with anymore details
Jeanette
We lived in the flats at the bottom of the grove in Hall Hays, we were one of the first families in there abt 1955, it was a lovely estate up until the 80's. My sisters & myself all went too Hillstone Infants & Juniors & then onto Longmeadow Secondry Modern for girls.
Lipton's was down on the Heathway as my aunt worked there.
The 55 bus terminus was next to an old Army camp that was derelict at the time, so coming back from Alum Rock (early days) we disembarked there & walked down Kitsland to get to Hall Hays.
people were talking of pubs as well, but The Raven wasn't mentioned, that was my grandad's local. Does anyone remember Roland O'Neill?
We remember the Austrailian flats been built, we used to play on the site, lost many a shoe in the mud ha!
Sorry can't help with anymore details
Jeanette
Thosewerethedays
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Thosewerethedays
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Paul Stoker
New Member
I just came across the forum when i was checking to see if there was any pictures of the flats i live in when i was young fella.
The block i live in was call Fremantle House. I lived there from 1970 until 1973 when we moved to Bradley Road Shard End.
My mother Rose (a Scot) was a bar maid in the Two Hands pub and my father Ralph was never out of that pub. At the time the two Hands was run by Larry and Barbs who later moved on to New Zealand.
Funny i now live in Australia and have done for some 26 years and when i think back to those days and all the place names that come to mind are all from here in Oz.
I do have a few photos of myself outside Fremantle House (black & white) so when i get back to the UK in July i will find them and post them up.
Regards
Paul Stoker
The block i live in was call Fremantle House. I lived there from 1970 until 1973 when we moved to Bradley Road Shard End.
My mother Rose (a Scot) was a bar maid in the Two Hands pub and my father Ralph was never out of that pub. At the time the two Hands was run by Larry and Barbs who later moved on to New Zealand.
Funny i now live in Australia and have done for some 26 years and when i think back to those days and all the place names that come to mind are all from here in Oz.
I do have a few photos of myself outside Fremantle House (black & white) so when i get back to the UK in July i will find them and post them up.
Regards
Paul Stoker
terryb18
Gone but not forgotten R.I.P.
Hi Paul, I also lived in Fremantle at No 31. We moved there 1958 and I left in 1969 when I got married although my parents lived there almost up until they were demolished. I was a regular in the Two Hands around that time and I remember Larry and his wife. I don't recognise your dads name though, but I may have known him to say hello to.
Here is a pic of the view from my bedroom window, sometime in the mid 60's.
Here is a pic of the view from my bedroom window, sometime in the mid 60's.
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canberra pete
New Member
As I recall, on one side there was originally a clothes shop ( I have a very vague and possibly imperfect memory that it was called 'Shirleys')Just to reserect this thread from the dead...........
Kitsland Road shops as I remember them but I could do with anyone else that could put names to the shops. I grew up on berrowside road (adjoining Kitsland) and would visit the shops every Saturday. My step dad even worked in and took over the butchers (Barry Johns butchers) he was the John half
On one side there was:
A bookies
Another shop which name evades me (on the end)
The Wool Shop - called Joyce's (I knew the family)
Browns Discount - was Liptons? (would sell random homewares & toys)
The Greengrocers
Barry johns Butchers - Not sure it was always called this but a really close family friend called 'Dave' was the butcher there for many years before moving to another shop in Shard End Crescent
Another shop which later become a chip shop then the lucky house chinese (which moved to lea village and is still there!) EDIT - I've been told this was a Bakery
An off license on the end
On the other side of the road (and still there)
Hair dressers
Co-Op (this shop became a Mace and bought the shop next door and expanded)
Another shop - this was the one that the mace expanded in to - I have no idea what it was
The Newsagents (now and off license)
The record/odd bits shop
The barbers (Trevors - was it Georges before? Believe it or not he is still there and it still looks exactly the same inside, he must be about 70 now and only opens for a few hours a week)
Can anyone else add to this and fill in the gaps?
Thank you
Alex.
Next door was the chemist. 'Tilley Daniels'. The grocery store was called 'Reillys', the greengrocers was 'Sharrads'. I remember the wool shop and butchers but not the names, followed by the off licence.
The barbers on the other side was 'Georges' run by George Gibbs. The record/toy shop, the newsagents which became 'Dillons' (I was a paperboy there for a couple of years and still remember the weight of 72 evening mails in a canvas bag). Lastly the (small by todays standards) supermarket. I can't remember if it started as a co-op or not. Happy days.
Richard Dye
master brummie
Pete, welcome to the Forum, a great place, enjoy!
Thank you. That’s amazing
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
welcome
Hi Bob..if my memories serves me right...i think the toyshop was called Playtime and the proprietor was a tall slim balding chap always friendly and smiling.
I lived opposite the flats from when they were built till 1965ish. I remember the flats being built. It was another piece of land that we lost to 'the builders'. I lived at 16 Berrowside Road. It was an end terrace. As you looked at the front of the house the was an open field to the right. There was also an open field to the back of the house. The Two Hands pub was built later and more houses were built next to us. Here is a picture of me at our gate with the land where the flats were built in the background.
