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High Street, Saltley

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wendyP

master brummie
Can anyone help please. I am looking for a list of shops that were on the High Street Saltley in the late 50's, early 60's.
Would be very grateful of your help.
WendyP
 
Hello wendyp, i suggest you type in the search alum rock shops,it has been popular of late. regards dereklcg
 
Hi Derek, Yes I have seen all those shops going up the Rock from the Gate, Saltley, but what I wanted was the shops just before the Gate. In other words the shops that were nearer to the Bridge going in to town.
 
Hello wendyp i know there was,nt a lot there i think there was chamberlains fishing tackle, a pub a cafe, and as postie said insurance offices,Alf or ger22van mite know more when they,re on.
regards Derek
 
Oh I dont remember Spring Insurance, so thanks for that. There was a chemist and shop called Copes and Abbotts Car Sales, and a pub called Coachmakers Arms but thats all I can recall. Thanks for the Chamberlains fishing tackle shop - I do remember that now you have said it.
There was also a television shop. There was a lot more shops than you would think. I think the chemist was on the corner of Gate Street.
Thank you all so much for your help.
Wendy
 
wendy there was struts the chemist, civic tv and radio,copes newsagent,chaplins fishing tackle the vets and there was a dry cleaners i think there name was harris
 
Rupert said:
There was a veterinarians close to the fishing tackle shop where we got our maggots.
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Hi there

The Midland Bank on the corner of Hereford Square and High Street.
Also Edwards second hand Radio and TV shop, but I only remember that from the early 70's.

Kind regards

Dave
 
Derek, Thank you for that lovely photo, it looks like the 56 bus is going over the bridge towards town.
 
Hi,
Just found this thread and wondered if any of the photos showed a shop window with a toy train running in it! I used to be fascinated by this shop window, but I only saw it on a Sunday so the shop was never open! It would have been late 50's early 60's, does anyone else recall it?
Many thanks
 
Hi All

Anyone remember the second hand shop in the 1970's, a couple of doors from
the Gate pub. It was called Caron's (the couple who ran it were Carol and Ron).

Kind regards

Dave
 
Apparently there was a Salvation Army on High Street Saltley from 1915 to 1930 .... would this be correct?
 
It was between Corfield terrace and Coleshill terrace, which was directly opposite the end of Gate St
Mike
 
I wonder - when the Salvation Army in Saltley closed (prior to 1936), I wonder did it relocate to Alum Rock Road - because the corps there started in 1935.
 
there used to be a temprence place telling us about the evils of drink
it was facing copes's in 1950s
 
rupert.thats the shop.the one with the wierd things in the window.a vet.
i remember a junk shop by the cafe
 
Would anyone have information or pictures of Hereford Square? I know it hardly exists today bar a small patch of land and a street name; however, I appear to have relatives living at No. 27 Hereford Square around the early 1900s so it must have been a fairly big square.

Thanks
 
Was the "junk" shop the one opposite the newsagents which I think was called Copes, (used to get needles for the wind up gramophone from there). If it was I used to go to school with the son from that shop. Can't remember his name but I am sure he had ginger hair!
 
There was also Bentleys the gents tailor,the cake shop but the name escapes me and the was also a grocers where my mother worked during and just after the war.And I have a vague recollection of a car sales place.
 
There was a horse meat butchers on the corner just in Washwood Heath Road.I remember this because one weekend when my grandmother was ill and all her brothers and sisters where visiting for sunday lunch,my grandfather fed them with a joint of meat purchased from that shop.I was not around at the time,but quite a few of them were,shall we say unwell when they discovered what they had eaten.
 
The horse meat butcher's name was Hacket. Quite appropriate really. I can see his shop now. Enormous joints of meat, and the fat was yellow. He was located on the right-hand side of Washwood Heath Road, several shops down from the bank. Next to alley-way where the home-made sweet shop man used to park his van.
 
My dad lived in Corfield Terrace with his gran (he later was adopted). Does anyone have any photos of the houses, i understand they have long since been demolished. and whether they were a particular style? Thanks
 
insearch said:
My dad lived in Corfield Terrace with his gran (he later was adopted). Does anyone have any photos of the houses, i understand they have long since been demolished. and whether they were a particular style? Thanks
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The bakers shop next to chaplins was Barnes the baker. I was born above the shop. We were opposite copes? The was a green grocer called Arthur Wallis also opposite and we used to share the cellar during the bombing aimed at the "met"
 
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