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Bordesley green

Regarding my last Post about the Broadway, here are some photos I took of the Children's Party we had in the back room for the Father Hudson's Home kids in the late 60's. Ray Downes was a true hero, as was his brothers Ron, Laddie, and Gordon. Lived last house before the Park opposite the Ritz cafe. The elderly Lady in the photo is Maisie Kirkright, mother of John Kirkbright, owner of several Garages and the Penguin Nightclub mentioned elsewhere on this Forum. His father Len Kirkbright is also included in the group shot (1st left) ...https://forum.birminghamhistory.co....birminghamhistory.co.uk/images/attach/jpg.gif
 
db84124 said:
Dr Bowen, Dr Jones, Dr Martin, Dr James and Dr Benbow were all partners in the same practice. They ran three surgeries. Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones worked - as fatfingers so rightly tells us in Post #146 - in a big Victorian house which used to stand set back from the road alongside the Victoria pub on Bordesley Green; Dr Martin had a surgery on Bordesley Green East; and Dr James and Dr Benbow shared a surgery in another large house in the lower part of Blake Lane (their receptionist was Nurse Miller). All five doctors often stood in for each other and were frequently seen at another surgery. db84124
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I think there was also Dr D.M.Ellis in the Group somewhere. Super big tall guy with huge Deirdre Barlow glasses and jug ears. He lived in big house Vicarage Road in Yardley. Moved to the Practice in Yardley Green Rd from Blake Lane. Was the Blues doctor and looked after Trevor Francis's legs, amongst others. Now well retired. Saw him last week in Solihull Town Centre with his diminutive wife. He told me he was born in Pretoria Road. Great guy with a fantastic line of common sense advice. "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear" was one that springs to mind...
 
No, Dr Don Ellis was never a member of the practice mentioned in Post #148. I did say I was referring to the practice at the lower end of Blake Lane; there was a second partnership in Blake Lane, but it was between the Custard House - on the same side - and Yardley Green Road. I believe Dr Ellis was in partnership with Dr Lou Lloyd, whose surgery was alongside the park in Green Lane/Grange Road. The two groups of doctors were brought together - as you so rightly say - with the opening of Yardley Green Medical Centre in Yardley Green Road. db84124
 
Dennis ,the link you put in post 152 dont work , comes up as error 404 , could you resubmit it. Cheers Max
 
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Sorry Max. There is no link, that's why. just the photos. I''m not sure how I did it but I must have pressed a wrong button. Not a good day today for old geezers with big thumbs and nay brains...
 
Heres a few pics taken recently for you old Bordesleyites , you may notice flowers at the Victoria pub , they were a tribute to a person that had died in a car crash there 28th feb 2010 , there was a sign. opposite placed by police asking for witnesses. Max
 
No problem Dennis , im getting too many "Senior moments meself " Max
 
Maxwell,

Can you. or anyone else, tell me the significance of the monument on the information stand in Post 159. I grew up in Carlton Road very near here and cannot remember any connections or dealings with Mombasa , Hamburg, Hong Kong or any of the places carved on the monument.?

I did, in fact, spend a lot of time with the Royal Navy in Hong Kong but have never visited any of the other places so I do not think it can be anything to do with that.

Old Boy
 
Hi ya Old Boy , i was hoping someone could tell me !!!!! I took the photo at the top of Victoria Rd by the lights and the number 8 bus stop .
Maybe its to represent the countries whose languages you are most likely to hear around here!!! . Max
 
No idea what the info kiosk destinations represent, but here's a pic of what stood on that patch a few years ago. That second-hand shop window was a magnet for passers-by.

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No real idea, but they could be places that Birmingham is 'twinned' with?

Here's a few nostalgic shots of that junction in the late 40's when the Trams ruled, from David Harvey's wonderful book.https://forum.birminghamhistory.co....irminghamhistory.co.uk/images/attach/jpeg.gif

I must have passed this junction on the 53 or 54 a bezillion times in my youth, either going 'up town' or to school in Camp Hill. Forgotten that big Braclays Bank that stood where the Garage site with the old Jaguars was later..also Fred Parkin's, Perk's...bit of a change now. Glad to see the Vic still looks 'used' Max. Played for the Vic many times in the 70's with Raggy Allen's son, and Dougie Towers plus the notorious Philips brothers. Kenny was murdered I think...
Moggy Rose managed the side with Ralphie Merrill as assistant. Always had big tussles for bragging rights on BGE with the George down Garrison Lane in the Coronation League. They were better cos they had big Morris Hodierne. at Centre Half, Brick 'outhouse' or something like that, if you know what I mean...
 
Well unfortunately the twinned cities are not depicted on the structure db84124, so we are still looking for the relevance of the places shown ,they are
Hong Kong,Dublin,Karachi,Bombay,Hamburg,Kingston,Naples and Mombasa. Max
 
Well, thank you very much, Maxwell, for pointing that out. My post was made to illustrate that the suggestion put forward in Post #165 was incorrect. db84124
 
Max, any idea who owns these once lovely old jags depicted on the Google shot of the Victoria Road junction? They seem to have been abandoned there for many a year now, and it looks deserted. There were even more at one time I seem to remember, so at some time I suppose there was a commercial purpose to these premises. Other pics of this area for interest and comparison. I remember the old Municipal Bank shell in the current shot, but not the big Barclays Bank where the old Jags now reside.
 
The wheel appears to have legs walking around it ,are they legs coming to visit here..I think it represents the places where, in the history of the City, we have had large numbers of people coming to make their home here.
As someone very interested in the genealogy of Birmingham people I know that we had many people from Naples in our Italian quarter,tailors from Hamburg in the 1850s/60s.A huge number of Irish when the potato famine made it necessary for them to find a living elsewhere and later when we advertised for Nurses and bus drivers,likewise Jamaica.
Kenyan Asians made their home here when they were expelled.
Don't know for sure Old boy,just a theory.regards,Alberta.
 
Dennis Williams said:
Max, any idea who owns these once lovely old jags depicted on the Google shot of the Victoria Road junction? They seem to have been abandoned there for many a year now, and it looks deserted. There were even more at one time I seem to remember, so at some time I suppose there was a commercial purpose to these premises. Other pics of this area for interest and comparison. I remember the old Municipal Bank shell in the current shot, but not the big Barclays Bank where the old Jags now reside.
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Dunno about now, but there was a Jag spares / repairs garage on the corner. Seem to remember a rare early white XJ6 2 door rotting into the ground there since about the mid 80s.
 
Sorry db , i must have had a senior moment .On a different point to people who read this thread, I am not knowledgeable about this area of Bordesley at all , i have only lived here for 8 months , i will continue to put photos on this thread for all that may be interested , and of course for historical value.
Max
 
Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly off thread. This Bordesley Green thread is in the section "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies" and, although everything contributed is very interesting, it is all somewhat irrelevant to the medical theme of the sub-forum. Perhaps your photos should go in the Birmingham History Network, Birmingham History paragraph. With respect, David
 
The site you are talking about was a workshop that specialised in Jaguar repairs and rebuilds.
It was run by a very jovial Jamaican chap who told me that he was going to do up old Models and ship them abroad because they fetch more money there.
He decided to increase his workshop space by knocking down a few walls, unfortunately the walls were load bearing and the upstairs fell into the downstairs, wrecking all his "stock".
I never saw him after that.
 
With respect ,if the Forum owner sees fit to post non Doctor Etc posts on this thread then i shall continue to do so , i posted on this thread due to placing a photograph of what was said to have been the Doctors house !!!! Next door to the Victoria Pub , the beauty of friendly forums as this one is that one thing leads on to another and our knowledge in history of given areas grows .
 
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Dennis , i shall see what i can DIG UP about the Jag place HA HA . ( nice info Jim )
 
Max, the "gap" between the Victoria pub and other buildings on Bordesley Green which has been filled by the car wash was occupied by Dr Bowen's and Dr Jones's surgeries. It was never their house. This is historical fact, i.e. knowledge. David
 
As Postie has said, the s/h car place on the corner of Bordesley Green and Cherrywood Road was run by a West Indian and was named Kingston Motors.

I wonder if the destinations around the circle of legs on top of that 'bollard' represent some of the many places city councillors have visited on all-expenses-paid trips? :)
 
Icarus posited "I wonder if the destinations around the circle of legs on top of that 'bollard' represent some of the many places city councillors have visited on all-expenses-paid trips? :)"


Nah Icarus, I fear we would need many more legs if THAT were true, at least a millipede's worth. Allegedly...

Anyone remember when Forward Radiator or Mulliners were going concerns just down the Bordesley Green Rd? Most of my mates seemed to work at one or t'other. Used to call in for refreshments on a hot day at the Gypsy's Tent or the Country Girl. Purely medicinal of course...
 
db84124 said:
Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly off thread. This Bordesley Green thread is in the section "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies" and, although everything contributed is very interesting, it is all somewhat irrelevant to the medical theme of the sub-forum.
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I think that the original post was put in the wrong thread, if you go back to #1 there in no mention of "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies"
simply a request for memories of Bordesley Green
 
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