Old street pics..

[HumbleWorks]

I love all these old pix and have seen many from Saltley is there one of Somerset street anywhere ?. My Mom was born in 4 back of 32.... I am putting a book together ...which will take some time !!! any Upper Thomas Street School photos ??
1953 Coronation day in the street ? I was Bo Peep !! We were lucky to have been unfortunate and poor. I might be new here...but an old Brummie ...

 

[berniew]

Here'a a thred on Upper Thomas Street Humbleworks but most of the pics are missing due to hacking https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=17711&page=3&highlight=upper+thomas+street

 

[HumbleWorks]

Thanks that really is great ...I will look and see if I am on there !!!

 

[berniew]

Another pic of El Sombrero originally posted by Jayell

 

[berniew]

Sir Charles Napier Gooch Street someone was looking for this can't remember who

 

[berniew]

Bissell Streeet Balsall Heath caption says 50s looks earlier coutesey digital balsall heath

 

[berniew]

Mary Street Balsall Heath post office and Cave café courtesy digital balsall heath

 

[berniew]

Mary Street School aka Belgrave School demolished 1970courtesy digital ladywood

 

[berniew]

A link to digital balsall heath https://www.search.digitalbalsallheath.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibitionType=3&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fchild%2Easp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fcustom%2Fgallery%2Easp&page=2&records=16&direction=1&pointer=10150&text=0&resource=10573&exhibition=3572&offset=0

 

[berniew]

Old pics of West Brom here https://www.west-bromwich-photos.co.uk/

 

[berniew]

Caption said Lozells Picture Theatre 1929 no address any ideas

 

[berniew]

Lozells Street 1950 Hall and Methodist Chapel

 

[berniew]

Handsworth 1930s Woolworths

 

[Oisin]

I would guess at the picture house as being the Villa Cross on Lozells Road. It's hard to imagine that the Co-op my wife shopped in when we were first married is so soon a part of history. (Scuse me now while I wipe away a tear... sob...) God, it was only 44 years ago!

 

[Jayell]

No its not the Villa Cross

 

[mikejee]

It was between wilton St and Wheeler St on Lozells Road. In the 1932 directory Maison Turner has changed to Maison Helene, but the Lozels picture house is there. I gather it was bombed during the war

 

[berniew]

Thanks for the replies folks

 

[Oisin]

Well, it was only a guess.

 

[carolina]

Theres some info on here for Picture Houses on Lozells Road

https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/lozells-road/

 

[carolina]

Here is Wheeler Street
50¼ Carver, William, Meat Pie Maker
50½ Hems, Leonard, Carver & Gilder
50a Johnson, William, Boot Dealer
50b Cooke, William & Leonard, Hosiers
52 Robinson, William, Butcher
54-54a Newell, William Edward, Cycle Maker
Lozells Picture House
James Henry Blissett, manager
56a, Ansell's Brewery Limited, Brewers
Here is Wilton Street

North Side
London City & Midland Bank Limited
[J. B. Pearson, manager]
Mawson, Swan & Co. yeast importers
Birmingham Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd.
Aston Picture Palace, Thomas Bolstridge, mgr
3 Jones, William Henry, Draper
5 Harris, Thomas, China Dealer

 

[berniew]

Thanks Caol

 

[Phil]

The Lozells Picture Palace was bombed out in 1942.

 

[berniew]

Cheers Phil

 

[paul stacey]

I remember my Mom telling me about the cinema being bombed, she was home on leave from the WAAF, and lived in Vicarage Road Handsworth.paul

 

[Donbogen]

My Mum lived across the rd from Palace she was bombed out in same raid her best friend and all her family who lived next door were killed their name is on the memorial but my aging brain does not recall the name sadly my dear Mum has passed on.

 

[brumgum]

My Mum lived across the rd from Palace she was bombed out in same raid her best friend and all her family who lived next door were killed their name is on the memorial but my aging brain does not recall the name sadly my dear Mum has passed on.

Maybe this site could jog your memory if you enter the location of the incident..

https://www.swanshurst.org/barra/results.asp

 

[berniew]

Looks like this may have been your neighbours Donbogen https://www.swanshurst.org/barra/results.asp

 

[brumgum]

Looks like this may have been your neighbours Donbogen https://www.swanshurst.org/barra/results.asp

The results don't appear to show unless you enter it personally.

 

[berniew]

Two people killed in air raid on 28 07 1942 64 Lozells Road Ralph Henry Corfield aged 41 special constable killed at home Lionel William Jennings same date died in the cinema aged 49

 

[Donbogen]

Thank you Folks.