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has anyone seen the post cards photos on ebay of ERDINGTON must admit I am tempted to buy martyn
I wonder where it actually is, from 1941 to 1947 I walked from Court Lane to Green Lane's school every day, there was a bus the S73, but it did not run to suit me. The last time I visited, I drove the route........nowadays that walk is probably considered too tiring for the little dears!!!
Lady PenelopeHi Onceabrummie,
Sorry - only just spotted your response about the Knights at the Pavillion (436). I will tell my friend. And no, I didn't sneak in - I'd like to say that it was because I was law-abiding but actually I didn't know that was happening!
I see you walked from Court Lane to Green Lanes school so do you remember the wooden bridge over the railway at the top of Sheffield Road (actually in Sutton, but only just)? An old school friend of mine lived in Goosemoor Lane and made the same trip. I only remember the present bridge. I lived in Court Lane 1947-1963, by the park.
Hi Onceabrummie.Lady Penelope
Good afternoon to you, recently on a return visit to the city I still consider to be home, I took my wife to see the way that I used to go to schools, left at the Baptist Chuch, cross over, past Highbury Little Theatre and then SHOCK HORROR!!, it is now a brick bridge, no longer could small boys do what during the war years small boys did especially if there was a train passing underneath. To quote the song, ah yes, I remember it well. I lived up the top end in the prewar (1939) built houses just before the cemetery. I was born over the other side of the road which was Sutton, but moved across in 1939 into one of Grosvenor Estates modern three bed semis. 1947 went to BVGS. Sunday mornings used to go down to the park to watch the football. My father in law a Cornishman born and bred who moved to Plymouth from the county could never get over Birmingham with all its trees and parks. He anticipated dark satanic mills, but got used to the tree lined A38. I have an old picture of Goosemoor Lane which I will try to put on as I need some location identification. Do you remember the big house on the corner of Court Lane and Goosemoor Lane where Hastilows who owned Tudor Rose Coaches used to live?