Hi, I lived at 104 from 1947 until 1996 and went to Perry Beeches , the cottage stores in beeches road before the new build was a cottage and had a wishing well in the front garden.Is there anyone on this site that lived in Turnberry road, Great Barr?.
I also went to Beeches road school 1957 to 1960. Used to buy semi frozen jubbly's from the cottage stores during the summer and freezing your whatsits off in the winter doing cross country running in the brook.Hi, I lived at 104 from 1947 until 1996 and went to Perry Beeches , the cottage stores in beeches road before the new build was a cottage and had a wishing well in the front garden.
Arthur Browning was there when I was, can't remember which year now as I went from second year to fourth and ended up in Miss Lloyd's class. As you probably remember Arthur turned out to be a brilliant speedway rider, something we never expected. David Burrows was also in Miss Lloyd's class with me, his brothers had something to do with Brooklyn garage, he was always tinkering with the heads car.Mrs Davies was head when I went there (Calshot school infants) Gittings wife was the district nurse who looked after my dad when he had a serious industrial injury. I remember Arthur Browning and rge air raid shelter but playing "Over ther Brook" was best. I was from Foden Rd but my wife was from Turnberry.
I just came across this photo so a belated reply. I know the area from the early 50's to late 60's and it's interesting to see it before any post war development. Where was it sourced from? It looks as if the quarry workings did not extend up to Sandy Lane at that time. Have you ant idea when the quarry opened? The area just below Beeches Road School does not appear to have the Junior School Classroom Huts which were just by the entrance. Below the huts it looks like allotments, later to be the area where the Nursery was erected and just below that prefabs (later replaced by semidetached houses on a service drive. Dave
Thank you for the information and forbearance oldMohawk. I realised as I hit post that I'd made a mistake-I sometime have a dispute with my "2 in 1" machine if I fail to give it due attention!!!Hi Dave, because you put your text inside the quote to a post by me, I could not reply with a quote to you ...
The aerial photo was sourced from 'britainfromabove'. Unfortunately their two photos in the area are low res. The quarry was open in 1945 and I remember playing on the deep pool when it was iced over in 1947. If you have not already seen it I put a series of aerial views with dates in a post in another thread see link below.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ry-beeches-secondary-school.17713/post-432904
Thanks for the image, it has a great level of detail and I can see my childhood home and the line of the brook, woods and field which were our playground.Here is an aerial view dated 1955. I have marked a red line at the junction of Turnberry Rd and Beeches Rd. Thornbridge Ave and the Beeches Pub in the pic ...
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The source of the view is from Library of Birmingham see below
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