what a great photo...just look at the 2 photographers standing high up above the entrance to the gaumont and there is another one on the building left of it...shame the cinema has gone..yet another piece of brum history gone forever
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lyn
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Totally agree Lyn. This was my favorite cinema. I was told that it was the first with a curved screen. The Gaumont Cinema should have been saved. Definitely would not have likedto have been one of those photographers. Lol
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Here’s a link which has a few photos. Some of the early photos on the thread were lost when this site was hacked some years ago. But work your way through it and you’ll find a number have since been posted. Viv.
birminghamhistory.co.uk
Cregoe Street
hi justin you are in luck...because of my interest in cregoe st i have 4 pics of it which i will post shortly...my gt grandparents both lived and sadly died only 1 day apart in november 1908 aged just 34 and 27 leaving 3 very young children orphans...they lived at no 5 court 9... lyn
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Lloyd
master brummie
Aparrently the doctor's in Cregoe St.
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Thank you Janice.Those were the days! Oldun.
what an amazing photo oldun...and from my ancestors neck of the woods...no doubt my family who lived very close must have used this butchers also note the old trams lines...think i read somewhere that the trams went to the bottom of gt hampton row and did a right at new john st west..may i post it please on our gt hampton row thread ? ...thank you
lyn
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Thank you Lyn.Glad you like it.Do as you please.Oldun.
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The picture of the pork butcher’s shop raises the question why pork only? Was this consequent upon religious needs, pork possibly needing to have been kept away from other meats to avoid breaking the rules, or was it that the multiple uses and products made from pork meat required skills not employed by other butchers? Or something else? It also seems, (to me anyway) to have been a big city thing, the necessary footfall not being available in small places.
Here’s a link which has a few photos. Some of the early photos on the thread were lost when this site was hacked some years ago. But work your way through it and you’ll find a number have since been posted. Viv.
Cregoe Street
hi justin you are in luck...because of my interest in cregoe st i have 4 pics of it which i will post shortly...my gt grandparents both lived and sadly died only 1 day apart in november 1908 aged just 34 and 27 leaving 3 very young children orphans...they lived at no 5 court 9... lyn
It's spectacular isn't it? I just want to know if those are blood/black puddings hanging with the sides of pork?
This site gives the explanation that they originated in Germany , who used a lot of pork in their sausages etc
German Pork Butchers in Britain | Exodus: Movement of the People
Before burgers, fish and chips and kebabs came the original takeaway: German pork pies, sausages, rissoles and other ready-made foodstuffs. During the
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There's a saying that before the First War every town had a German butchers and a German band.
For the record I was given the butcher shop photo in the 60’s from a pub clear out prior to sale.The pub was not near Hockley and unfortunately no background was given.As you can imagine I wish I had asked a few questions.
Ps.I took 4 snaps in the 60’s.Two of the Mint and two in Lodge road.Bit of a desperate attempt to document B,ham which as you can tell didn’t last long.Still I expect you have a good sense of humour.Oldun.
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lyn This was on the first post but somehow go lost.Please take as read.Oldun.
they scared the life out of me thought they were giant chrysalis lol...here a photo of the same shop dated 1961..thanks to keiron for this one
Lyn,I kept trying to give a thumbs up to your idea of putting the shop on the Great Hampton Row thread but instead the comments just repeated.Anyway I would really like Annieb 181 to see it,so anything to that end would be great.If you want me to do anything ,ok,but I’m sure it is safer in your hands.Oldun.
shirley meah
Brummie babby
I have fond memories of this school 1956-1962. Mr Powell was headmaster & some teachers I remember were mr Hughes, mr Nut, mr Jones. There was a fearsome Scottish lady in the oldest class but can’t remember her name. My best friend was Shirley Parker. I am so thankful for the hard work of these teachers who had very poor children with troubled families to educate. With their help I got a scholarship to King Edward VI grammar school.
Attached is the 1945 George Road Victory in Europe street party. I was born in 1943 at 19 George Road, Hay Mills and I'm pictured on the right hand side kneeling in my chair at the head of the table. The photo is also in the Birmingham Museum and because of the King George Coronation table banner, it is incorrectly attributed to 1937 some 6 years before I was born.
