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Kings Heath in the 60s

Lloyd

Lloyd

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I found this old home video on youtube and thought some of you would like to see it. Kings Heath, people and places in 1960.

[ame="https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-z69OqEmTFk"]YouTube - This Is Kings Heath - 1960[/ame]
 
Lloyd brilliant vid shame no sound bet the old fellows could tell us some stories and a proper traffic bobby great:)
 
Cadeau said:
Nice one Lloyd, I've posted it on to Tommy Godwin's daughter Kay, as you may know they had a cycle shop in Silver Street.
https://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files/Page410.htm

Graham.
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Tommy Godwin is my cousin Graham, The Aunt Beat and Uncle Ern mentioned at the beginning of his book was my Mom and Dad, his sister Rennie who lived in America was my Godmother, he did pay me a visit about 4yrs ago thats the first time we'ed spoke for many years, I've never met his wife or his daughter but nice to see he's still with us and still active.

kind regards Lily Wallis nee Evans
 
Hi, Folks!
I think the YouTube link for this video has changed since this topic was started ... here is the current YouTube link to my home movie of King's Heath 1960 ...


... thanks for your kind comments!
 
Thank you Terry. I have replaced theol d link in post 1 with your new link
 
Enjoyed the video of Kings Heath. I used to do all my shopping there in the 1960s. Good memories.
Anthea
 
That was just before I left to move south, though no faces that I recognised. I spent a lot of time in that library too. Great! :)

Maurice
 
The links and videos do not appear to be working? Is it my computer or is there a problem. Would love to see Kings Heath in 1960's.
 
Peter1 said:
The links and videos do not appear to be working? Is it my computer or is there a problem. Would love to see Kings Heath in 1960's.
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Looks like Terry's video here he wrote:
Silent 8mm home movie, filmed circa 1960 in King's Heath, Birmingham. This is an improved copy of my original upload under the same title which has unaccountably disappeared from YouTube

 
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Terry Pearson said:
Thanks, Maurice! I think I'm right in saying that the library is one of the places in the film that is still intact today! Terry

Yes, Kings Heath Library is still there but much altered inside. Hope Chapel which used to be next door moved a long time ago to the corner of Reddings Rd/Alcester Rd. Chapel demolished & a new extension was built for the library - used as childrens library.
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Much as I remember it on the occasions I went to Stirchley from Shirley. Mostly by bicycle but in cold or poor weather by bus.
 
RobT said:
Looks like Terry's video here he wrote:
Silent 8mm home movie, filmed circa 1960 in King's Heath, Birmingham. This is an improved copy of my original upload under the same title which has unaccountably disappeared from YouTube

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RobT said:
Looks like Terry's video here he wrote:
Silent 8mm home movie, filmed circa 1960 in King's Heath, Birmingham. This is an improved copy of my original upload under the same title which has unaccountably disappeared from YouTube

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Fabulous post, thank you! Lovely to see Fr Jim Eckersley, vicar of All Saints; it was he who welcomed me to the church in '59 as a result of which, many years later, I found my vocation and was ordained.
 
DPD said:
Fabulous post, thank you! Lovely to see Fr Jim Eckersley, vicar of All Saints; it was he who welcomed me to the church in '59 as a result of which, many years later, I found my vocation and was ordained.
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Thanks for viewing! As well as Fr James Holland Eckersley, I hope you were able to spot Fr Cedric Henry Robinson (looking a little like Bing Crosby!) and Fr Raymond Hayne.
 
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Terry Pearson said:
Thanks for viewing! As well as Fr James Holland Eckersley, I hope you were able to spot Fr Cedric Henry Robinson (looking a little like Bing Crosby!) and Fr Raymond Hayne.
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Yes, Fr Robinson, he prepared me for confirmation in 1960; he was a very special man. Not physically a big man but could more than handle himself. He was a para in WW2 and one day two big fellas were having a scrap outside church. He went outside and 'sorted' them out. He retired to Worcester Diocese, I think living in Malvern, where very many retired clergy spend their final days. I never met him in the period of his retirement (I live and serve in Worcester, but recall his name in the Diocesan Directory). Fr Raymond I think moved to the Chapel Royal at Windsor on completion of his curacy. I can still hear the prayers being intoned ... 'And we pray for our curate, Fr Raymond ...' Fr Eckersley was special to me in how he welcomed this short-trousered lad in the summer holiday just before I was about to go to GD. He had a very hard act to follow: Bishop Michael Parker, also then Bishop of Aston, who was a very sweet soul, but Fr Jim wearing workingman's boots and with a Cumbrian accent didn't fit with the idea that All Saints had of itself and stayed just three years before the great and still spoken of Fr Robert May came. Blessings, Peter Davies.
 
DPD said:
Yes, Fr Robinson, he prepared me for confirmation in 1960; he was a very special man. Not physically a big man but could more than handle himself. He was a para in WW2 and one day two big fellas were having a scrap outside church. He went outside and 'sorted' them out. He retired to Worcester Diocese, I think living in Malvern, where very many retired clergy spend their final days. I never met him in the period of his retirement (I live and serve in Worcester, but recall his name in the Diocesan Directory). Fr Raymond I think moved to the Chapel Royal at Windsor on completion of his curacy. I can still hear the prayers being intoned ... 'And we pray for our curate, Fr Raymond ...' Fr Eckersley was special to me in how he welcomed this short-trousered lad in the summer holiday just before I was about to go to GD. He had a very hard act to follow: Bishop Michael Parker, also then Bishop of Aston, who was a very sweet soul, but Fr Jim wearing workingman's boots and with a Cumbrian accent didn't fit with the idea that All Saints had of itself and stayed just three years before the great and still spoken of Fr Robert May came. Blessings, Peter Davies.
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What a lovely response - I'm so pleased you found the video. We must have been approximately contemporaries at All Saints - very clear memories of Father Michael who, as you rightly say, was a hard act to follow! My Dad & Mum were Bert & Sybil Pearson - one of my oldest and best friends (now living in the USA) is the Reverend Professor Lindon Eaves (married to Susan, also a Reverend) - do you remember any of those names?
 
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Hi Terry

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Thanks, Morturn for that very sound advice. I have now removed my e-mail address from that posting as Peter has now been in touch with me directly. Thanks again for taking the time to send that comment which is much appreciated.
 
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