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Perry Barr postcards

I've just had a look on Streetview Oldmohawk. Yes it's good to see the cottages are still there. Looks to me that the last three cottages on the postcard had shop fronts. I have a vague idea that one of them was once a motorbike shop, possibly on the end of the row. Seems odd that these cottages and the 1920s bungalows on the adjoining Colllege Road survived the building of the M6. Viv.
 
Nomad, the shoe shop you mentioned was Walford & Cashmores, I think they also had a branch in Aston Road, almost opposite the Astoria cinema, later the TV studios.
 
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The old Police Station in Perry Barr . The photo is from 1906 and the station was demolished in 1951-53.
 
Stitcher's image of the old police station doesn't really fit the traditional image of the Victorian police station. It looks more farmhouse. It was near Birchfield Library and was demolished in the early 1950s when the road was widened. The Digital Handsworth site has another view of the police station in about 1950-55. Viv.



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morning viv i would think it most likely was a farmhouse before becoming the police station...thanks for that pic..another nice building sadly gone...

lyn
 
This was also captioned as the police station.
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"Evenin all" ! These photos really give the impression of Perry Barr as a village. Good to see glimpses of buildings before the dreaded underpass cleared so much of it away. Wonder if the police station had cells and a lamp over the door (as per Dixon of Dock Green - remember when he used to give his summing up under the lamp)? I don't seem to be able to find the police station on any maps either. Maybe it was never maked on one. Viv.
 
As far as I am concerned they have demolished far too many Police stations and should now be building a lot more.
paul
 
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I do not know but I assume this is the same building from a different angle because this one is also in Johnstone Street and is listed as a disused Malthouse but the first one is listed as a Malt Factory.
 
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Great couple of photos of the malthouse Stitcher. Looks like the same place as you can see the unusual shaped roof in both photos, just taken from the opposite side of the buildings. To me these brewery buildings form an interesting cluster of buildings. Viv.
 
My mother in law was born in Wellhead Lane 1906 & always refered to Perry Barr as the village,I went to Birchfield Rd School in the 1940s & even in those days many boys who lived in Perry Barr still called it the "village"
 
Hard to believe this was once the Walsall Road, Perry Barr. One lone bus loaded with people making its merry way along the empty road. Viv.
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Di.Poppitt said:
Hi Jean, I know that the pit was the deepest in England and at one time was said to be the deepest in the world. I remember mom saying that her father walked miles underground, I might be dreaming but I thiink she said the workings went as far as Perry Barr. I tell you who will know, pop into the miners social club in Old Walsall Road. They will tell you. There is a security system in place, you cant walk straight in. They are lovely men, they love a joke and a laugh.
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I was a member of the afore mentioned social club as a teenager in the seventies, it's called Hamstead Social now. It was a smashing place with a cosy lounge a dance hall and stage and a bar with snooker tables etc. It had it's own football pitch and even a stadium now sold for housing and a bowling green.
They used to hold a Thursday disco for us kids and it was really an enjoyable event with little trouble i can recall, happy days. It has an entrance on Old Walsall Road near it's junction with Spouthose Lane and also an Entrance in Spouthouse Lane just before Appleton Ave.
Dance the night away History Dudes at The Miners Club Hamstead..
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The miner's club was there when I grew up, Brumgum, and I think there was always a club on that spot. My granddad played bowls there when he was a young man at the turn of the last century.
 
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birchfield picturhouse...and perry barr station..
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I am trying to find a scan of the postcard of Perry Barr station taken at road level. I seeking a copy for the Warwickshire Railways website. I noticed your reference to the station and wondered if you could help.
 
Prospero5554 - re scan of the postcard of Perry Barr station taken at road level. (copy for the Warwickshire Railways website).
Not the greatest of Scans - hope it helps.
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cracking photo of perry barr station...hard to believe how that same spot looks now..church in the distance long gone..

lyn
 
I was born in Perry Barr and lived there, by the parks, for 25 years and never realised there was a railway station there.
 
No surprise Nick, it doesn't have a striking frontage. Judging by the old photo above, it's never really had a significant entrance and yet it is an 1830s station and must once have been very busy. Viv.
 

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Prospero5554 - re scan of the postcard of Perry Barr station taken at road level. (copy for the Warwickshire Railways website).
Not the greatest of Scans - hope it helps.
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Hi Two

Is there any chance of a larger scan? As you might have noticed, if you visit the www.warwickshirerailways.com website, in addition to producing the full photograph at 1000 pixels wide we frequently 'zoom' into parts of the photo to show them in detail, again at 1000 pixels wide. So in the photo of the station we would produce the postcard as is but then zoom into the building itself which is less than half the width of the postcard. This helps both local historians and also railway modellers should they wish to model the station. Hope you can help as its a cracking shot.

Best wishes

Mike
 
Mike
You do not seem to have this one.
 

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Hi Mike

Many thanks for a fabulous photo of the platforms with their old buildings. I hadn't thought about using this forum for help until your substantial effort on Duddeston Road. I will be asking for help on others too. The website's content on this part of Brum - Aston to Soho Road - is very sparse, pre steam Witton being really poor.
Again my thanks
Mike
oldMohawk said:
Not a postcard but a 1959 view of Perry Barr Railway Station.
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oldMohawk said:
Not a postcard but a 1959 view of Perry Barr Railway Station.
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oldMohawk said:
Not a postcard but a 1959 view of Perry Barr Railway Station.
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Hi Oldmhawk

Thanks for the photo. It doesn't have to be a postcard but any representation is what I am after. If you were rich enough to have a camera 100 plus years ago you often used blank postcards as paper never mind exploiting the opportunity commercially. A great size too it would appear from my screen.

Again my thanks

Mike
 
Another view of Perry Barr Station in 1959. Interesting features are the adverts for football excursions, and I can see that Aston Villa were playing Everton in Liverpool on 28th March and City in Manchester on 25th April. Villa won 2 - 1 at Everton and a 0 - 0 draw at Manchester City.
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