Old street pics..

[paul stacey]

Nice pictures, there's those "HATS" again.Paul

 

[Phil]

A nice photo of (a not that much changed) Holly Lane Erdington. Not knowing the area I would hazard a guess it is taken from somewhere near Hollydale Rd looking toward Woodacre Rd.

 

[norfolk brummie]

Very true, Viv.

In the 1904's Longbridge would see lines and lines of double decker buses lined up waiting to take hundreds of car workers home in the evening. Many cars, mainly Austin models, would also pour out of the gates.

My wife and I, on one of our rare visits to Brum, a few years ago, drove past the Longbridge works. It was sad to see derelict buildings, with smashed windows. Ghosts of yesteryear.

Eddie

Sorry, should read 1940's. I know I am old, but NOT that old!!!
Eddie

 

[I Am Nico]

Wonder what they will do with it.? My cousin worked there she delivered vehicles they employed lots of women she said.

 

[BernardR]

It's well on the way to being done Nico - along with the MG plant there are shops and housing.

https://www.longbridgebirmingham.co.uk/

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[I Am Nico]

I see. Looks a bit like the Fort but greener or Prologis Park. I went for a job there once. There were hoardes of would be candidates.

 

[Morturn]

That sounds about right, its Nocks brickworks on the left. I can remember the steam engine that used to drive the big rollers to mangle up the clay, and the guys making bricks

 

[Austin K2]

......., and the guys making bricks.

I was one of those guys making the bricks, well not so much making as delivering them all over the Midlands.

Worked there for about two years, bloody hard work too. No machines to help, all the bricks were handballed off the lorries.

 

[I Am Nico]

Bet they were good bricks Austin. I am told my crumbly wall has been made with cheap inferior bricks. Apart from breeze blocks I thought bricks were bricks

 

[Phil]

College Rd Erdington c1963, once again it will take someone with a lot more local knowledge than me to work out quite where it was taken.

 

[mikejee]

C C Rose, in post 4246 was at 342a College road, between Warren Road and Hawthorne road

 

[Jeavons93CliftonRD]

Hi
I am new to this site. My father-in-law is Bert Jeavons, his grandfather was Thomas Anson Jeavons, married to Ellen Drake. They lived at 93 Clifton Road in Aston. My father-in-laws mother lived at 4 Buckingham Street, also in Aston. Her maiden name was Bennett. Daughter of Henry George Bennett and Alice. I would love to see any pictures of Buckingham Street or St George's parish church please. I have seen some photos of Clifford St on this site. Thanks very much.

 

[berniew]

The Dingle Yardley Wood and All Saints Road Kings Heath

 

[Morturn]

College Rd Erdington c1963, once again it will take someone with a lot more local knowledge than me to work out quite where it was taken.

That's a trip down memory lane. Mike is of course correct with the location; the shop with the tea sign on it was the Ridgeway Café, I frequented the place on a number of occasions.

 

[oldMohawk]

College Rd Erdington c1963, once again it will take someone with a lot more local knowledge than me to work out quite where it was taken.

Looking at the pic brings back 1940s childhood memories of when my dad used to take me to an interesting store called Ibbotsons which from memory was set well back from the road between those shops and the fire station. The store sold things such as chicken wire and wood and there was a pervading smell of paraffin in the store. I can see a shed like building in the pic with many cars in front, but the building I seem to remember had a curved felted roof which I can see a hint of in a 1945 aerial view. The store was probably closed well before the date of the pic.

I can picture the store but old memories are sometimes wrong ......

 

[terryb18]

I came across these two pics, I don't know if they have been put on here before. They are of Nechells/Aston. I'm not familiar with the area so I can't comment on them.

Terry

 

[devonjim]

Hi, Can anyone confirm that the red painted estate agents between Taunton Road and Clifton Road Sparkbrook(see attachment) was a shoe repair business in the 1940/50's belonging to my ggrandfather, John Williams and then his son Albert Williams. Thank you.

 

[Phil]

Devon Jim

Kelly's 1950 has it listed as,

324 Clifton Rd Byrne Peter A.boot repr


Though I remember it from the 70's as an outdoor,

 

[Phil]

Terry

I know the photos that you have posted have been on here before as it was more than likely me that posted them, in your first photo we are looking down Henry Street toward Great Lister St from about Ashted Row, the building on the left with the portico St James Sunday School will be gone within 12 months of the photo being taken.

The Second photo is the junction of Henry St and Heneage St and the photo would be earlier than the previous one because c1950 the whole block from C Willitts on the corner (in the photo) would be demolished to make way for some of the first flats in Nechells.

 

[Phil]

Is this section of Bristol Street still called "The Horse Fair" or is that another name that has just slipped out of use.

 

[paul stacey]

It always will be the "Orse Fair", to me and thousands of others.

 

[devonjim]

Thanks for looking Phil, I guess my relatives were employees. At least I remembered the location! I recall going to get a school satchel sewn up in what must have been '52-'53.

 

[Dennis Williams]

The death throes of the Bingley Hall Hotel. opposite old Bingley Hall entrance...King Alfred's Place...

 

[devonjim]

Is this section of Bristol Street still called "The Horse Fair".

GoogleMap recognises Horse Fair Bristol Street.

 

[sospiri]

Thanks for that Dennis. On the other side of Bingley Hall was King Edward's Place. I'm trying to locate a photogragh of King Edward's Place and specifically Bingley Works, which in the early 1900s contained ship's lamp makers Genton & Kessler. I don't know whether Mikejee has a map showing this, but my full history of the company is at https://www.msheppard.com/genton.htm

Maurice

 

[sospiri]

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[Phil]

The death throes of the Criterion Hotel. opposite old Bingley Hall...King Alfred's Place...


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Dennis


What I've always loved about the photo of king Alfred Place, is the old telegraph pole type wooden scaffold planted in barrels of sand and lashed together with rope and cables.

 

[sospiri]

Ha ha, Phil, similar to Spain in the late 1960s! They would go up to five storeys with nothing much more than the bamboo poles such as you would find in rolls of carpet.

Maurice

 

[mikejee]

Maurice
The c1889 map below shoes Bingley Works on the corner with Broad St

 

[Phil]

Mike

So the Bingley Works was the building that later housed the Tow Rope Café that I spent so much of my misspent youth in and later the establishment shown I this photo.