Hay Mills Cottages.

[Michael Coverson]

Is there anyone out there who is able to recall the pair of cottages on the Coventry Road, almost, but not quite, facing the Post Office and Redhill Cafe? They were separated from BRS depot, by gates and pathway leading to the allotments that ran over the back and down to Amington Road, then dominated by the Wilmot Breedon factory. Any memories?

 

[localmike]

Is there anyone out there who is able to recall the pair of cottages on the Coventry Road, almost, but not quite, facing the Post Office and Redhill Cafe? They were separated from BRS depot, by gates and pathway leading to the allotments that ran over the back and down to Amington Road, then dominated by the Wilmot Breedon factory. Any memories?

Are these the ones?

 

[Michael Coverson]

They are. Thank you. I lived just down from them, on the opposite side of Coventry Road and actually recall them being demolished in, I think, the mid- sixties. Adjacent to them, running down to a terrace of large houses, was a stretch of waste land. A playground for we kids! All gone now, alas.

 

[localmike]

They are. Thank you. I lived just down from them, on the opposite side of Coventry Road and actually recall them being demolished in, I think, the mid- sixties. Adjacent to them, running down to a terrace of large houses, was a stretch of waste land. A playground for we kids! All gone now, alas.

Great. You may be interested in the pages on the history of the Coventry Road on the Acocks Green History Society website, of which this is one:

Ada Road to Forest Road

NLS Maps 1888 NLS Maps 1905 NLS Maps 1916 Beyond the cinema and Ada Road stood a row of houses, initially with names, that were demolished by 1975, therefore could not be photographed by the Hay Mills Project. They were on the 1905 O.S. map, so were there up to a couple of years earlier. In 1920...

aghs.jimdofree.com

 

[BrummieGeoff]

They are. Thank you. I lived just down from them, on the opposite side of Coventry Road and actually recall them being demolished in, I think, the mid- sixties. Adjacent to them, running down to a terrace of large houses, was a stretch of waste land. A playground for we kids! All gone now, alas.

If you're interested in the other side of the Coventry Road here is a wider view from the same photo.