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Old street pics..

Quite right Lynn
The bend on the road is still much the same at the bottom end as you come off birch field road and turn into heathfield road
To come up to villa road and the picture house at the very top on your right
Lynn is the stork pub still there do you know or as it changed the name like most pubs from the early years
That would have been the first pub up the hill on your left great pic still great stuff am I right in saying there is a mosque temple
Built up on your right hand as you get near half way up to the picture house best wishes Alan,,,Astonian,,,,
 
lynne webb said:
The Heathfield Road pic looks like the Perry Barr end, if it is it still looks very much the same now.
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thanks lynne....


hi alan yes there is a mosque temple along the villa road and the stork had not changed its name and is still very much open..

lyn
 
Hi Devonjim they ae both of Bristol Road I found A series of five all taken from around the same spot and nearly all have the little girl in white in . According to some people who lived locally the library is almost immediate left don't know if that helps Jim . Thanks to both Lyn's for the info and you Alan
 
A couple of photos of Bristol Rd from almost the same spot taken a few years apart from near Belgrave Rd or as it is now known Belgrave Middleway
 

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Not quite from the Station or the bridge c1920.
 

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Berniew, Thanks for sharing your many post cards, thought I had spotted the Selly Oak centre building on the right and I once bought a Citroen Dyane from the forecourt dealer on the left, next to the library. The "Station" pub on the corner of Heeley Road was on the right.
 
Great photos of both Selly Oak and Northfield, knew them both well as a kid, and though different from the photos day, still recognisable to me. Paul
 
This is pretty old, but I have no date, the junction of Monument Rd & Hagley Rd.
 

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Blimey Phil,
Cracking little picture that where did you get that one
So that tea room as it appears is now the ivy bush pub. That's been other for donkeys years
Had area bevvys in there in my youth and that when those o,dhouses around there in our nipperdays of Hayley red was our scrumpping grounds
I could not say what year was as it was before my time nice one Phil , Alan,,,Astonian,,,'
 
Sorry Alan, the Ivy Bush is on the other corner of Monument Road. The Tea Warehouse is now Ladbrooks. For a long time it was Lloyds Bank then I think a car hire company.
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The Ivy Bush is now much bigger than I remember it. It used to be just a little pub on the corner. Now it looks as if it has expanded into the next door.
 
Alan

David is right about the Ivy Bush, it is on the other corner. I'm not sure about it expanding though as I've always remembered it as being the same size as it was here in the 60's though before that I couldn't say.
 

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Hi David
Before the hire company it was a tailors shop and that's where Cassius clay went for a suit I cannot think of the gentleman's name
Of the tailor and I recall the hire shop because my relatives ordered a mini bus coach to take us to nuneaton for a wedding of my sister in law
And cassi clay went and opened a boxing club for the youths on ickneild street hockley

And yes David is correct my mistake I know the area like the back of my hand ,Alan,,
 
Yes paul
I remember it and that's when it all changed the pub and the area there was never no shooting in Ladywood nor edgbaston
The ivy bush was frequented by the strange brigade nightly 7 nights aweekly
And they started to generate edgbaston and monument road building three tower blocks just along from the pub
And then it got rough spreading to Vincent street and gun slingers alley was formed I cannot say the road as the moderators
Will not let me name it it got so bad a taxi driver will not comedown and pick you up from your house
Nor even late of a night drop you off at your door
I remember it as well I was a local living in kingedwards red down just off monument road I used to go there myself with friends
Back down the road the shooting Happened down the back yard where you go to the toilets and the bar
There was an arch way lighting was poor in the arch it was the talk of the neibour hood for weeks
We had two neibours murdered ( females) in there house down monument road strangely these two indivisionsl lady's lived next door to each other
At one time one was murdered first in the terrace they lived up in monument road and then the clearance came the other lady moved to
Peel street Winson. Green she got murdered these to lady's was neibours together at one time
But strange how fate serves out. Paul, and when we moved to speedwell road hay mills across the road a neibour got murdered by her husband
He went straight to acocks green police station and told them what he did he got life he must be out by now
Even the others they must be out now but the one of Ingestion street he would be dead now as he was middle age when he done his murder
And his kids was my school friends
But the ivy bush went down the hill very ramptly we stopped going there we change course and started at spring hill
And worked our way down to the brook and the dudley road run our haunt was the windmill opersite the dudley red hospital
Old jack Kirby was running the joint great bloke
Nice to hear from you paul, if my memory serves me correctly this subject was done before area years back before some one hi jacked
The forum regarding us speaking about the Ivy Bush take care paul , Alan,,,,,Astonian,,
 
Thanks for that Alan, I used to drink there when home on leave from the army, as Mom and dad lived on the Hagley Road then. Cheers Alan, Paul.
 
Hi Carolina
Yes its came back to me now you have told us its was is name he had been there for years
Many thanks carol have a nice day best wishes Alan,
 
Stratford Rd, Sparkbrook, 1967 it looks to be the bottom of Erasmus Rd because that's the Liverpool Victoria Insurance building opposite in between Llloyds Bank and Cash's Store I knew them all well.

Looking at the young girl at the bus stop I was thinking she was she on the way to town to meet a boyfriend, I wonder if he turned up or did he take a look at the weather and decide to give it a miss. Wherever she was going it was important to her to be waiting for a bus in that downpour.
 

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Thanks for the various comments. I remember Mr Yusuf.

Phil, your photo does confirm the size of the Ivy Bush as that was taken in the days when M & B were spoiling the look of their pubs by putting incongruous shop fronts labeled "Good Cheer Cellars" on the frontages.
 
Hi Dave
Cracking picture of Johann did you get that pic from the evening mail as I recall him visiting the shop
On that day we lived down then road then in kingedwards red and spotted him in the news paper and the Sunday mercury
Dave that Sunday mercury is a real gem for local history of brum all those years ago I stopped buying it years ago
As now its mainly adverts not like it used to be
They had a pen friend section in there and I decided to get my old mate Dave a pen friend to get him a girl friend
He never had such luck when was kids but now he as got a cracking wife and family and very successful in business
And happy he surprised us all I weren't to his sons wedding staff night ended up in the duke of Wellington dudley red
Well tanked up indeed best wishes Alan,, Astonian,,,,,
 
Dennis Williams said:
I think there's a Chinese Restaurant here...the Lychee Garden..that probably was one of the first EVAH in Brum...?
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Lychee Garden has been there since 1969 according to their website. My first experience of Chinese food was in a Chinese self service restaurant on the lower pedestrian level of Colmore Circus opposite the old Gaumont Cinema on my way to night school in Gosta Green in the second half of the 1960s.
 
There was also one down near Station Street about 1958/9 but I can't remember its name. It was the first one I tried.

Maurice
 
norfolk brummie. Was the chinese restaurant at the top of Snow Hill on the Left hand side? I went there two or three times with my mates during our lunch hour from W.Cannings. It must surely be one and the same one? Regards. willeyg
 
Yes. Walking UP Snow Hill. I worked in Kay Westworths Music Shop around that time, and sometimes I would also have lunch in there. They did quite q cheap lunch. It was the first Chinese restaurant that I had been in. Eddie.
 
Back in the 1970s many Chinese restaurants did what they called Businessman's lunches for four shillings. A good deal at the time.
 
Having never been a Business man in my time in Birmingham I didn't know about that, but as a lad was forbidden to go to either Chinese or Indian restaurants by my Dad who was convinced like a lot of people in the late 50's early 60's that they used cat meat. This was of course rubbish, so I missed out on some ruddy good meals. Paul
 
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