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3 back 153 latimer street Emma Mountford

Hi Bobx, I lived at 76 Latimer st,I remember Eileen Bennet,I sometimes played with her younger sister.I am always looking for more photos of Latimer st.Happy memories.
 
Hi Denji

I've just seen your reply, It's hard to navigate this site or it's probably me. I caught chicken pox off Sandra Bennet, I remember my mom having a cat fight on one of the Bennets and seeing a clump of hair flying off one of them.
What school did you go to?
Thanks Bobx
 
hi bobx you should get an email alert letting you know if there has been a reply to threads that you have posted on so its advisable that you check your private emails from time to time..

lyn
 
Lyn - I have not had an email alert for a long time now. I have just checked and the box is ticked - it stopped fter one of the shutdowns when Warren was doing some "housework" - not that it bothers me as I am on here so often I see the alerts!!
 
yes jan i recall now that a lot of members stopped getting email alerts when the forum had problems...i dont think the problem was rectified then...i still get them but like you i am part of the furniture so miss very little:D
 
hi bob as said earlier i think this is a problem going back some time now...members are not receiving email alerts...all i can suggest is is you send a private message to warren who sorts out the technical side of things..he maybe able to help or advise you

lyn
 
It is worth checking the your Member name preference check boxes and the alert preferences check boxes. Computers, especially when updates and upgrades are made can change your chosen settings without your knowledge. Windows can be notorious for this trick.
 
Had done that - still no emails but, as I said before, not too bothered. I just mentioned it in case others do need emails. Alerts still work just no emails.
 
A search for 'alert' will show many posts and threads about email alert problems.

By default, the forum software 'Xenforo' will only email notify you on the first new post/reply after the last one you read. Any additional ones will not show up with new email notifications until you visit the thread and read the latest post which appears to reset the email setting, so you will get an email with the next response.

Other things to try...
If you have more than one email address try using a different one, this sometimes jogs the system into action.
Re-enter your existing email and this also sometimes jogs the system into action.
It has been known for forum emails to go into spam folders ... it happened to me once !
 
Latimer Street is the first of my web pages to include a 'new' feature, that of a map dating from 1891 showing the locations of all the pubs in the street - I acquired this old map and it shows every pub in every street at that time. I will be rolling this out for each street in the future. Have a look and see what you think : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/latimer-street/index.html#Map
I haven't done any work on this street but needed to have something there to follow from the Villa Tavern - yes, Lyn, that pub is keeping me busy on building weblinks as it was connected to such a lot of other pubs and places! And, yes, I ain't forgot about your pic! There aren't enough hours in the day!!
 
i lived in latimer st from 1945 to 1954 my name is barry hopwood and my older brother was terry also my younger sister valerie we lived at 2 back of 157 next door but one lived my best friend ,brian checkly any one out there remembers me or any one of my family
 
i lived in latimer st from 1945 to 1954 along with my parents reg hopwood and my mum elizabeth also my older brother terry and my younger sister valerie we lived at 2 back of 157 next door to tilly and mary bailey next to them lived brian and barry checkley also quite close lived my young friend arther owl who was fatally injured when he was run over by a lorry on our other side lived a family from ireland by the surname of watson again another tragic accident involved one of there sons young billy watson who on a different accident was also run over and died from the accident but they where not all bad times as although we did not have much we played out from morning to darkness only going home for a jam buttie or if you you where lucky maybe a dripping buttie happy days can remember going to the wheatsheaf pub on the corner of latimer st early on a sunday morning before they opened to sweep up ,empty the ashtrays ,and wash the glasses and was paid the princely sum of six pence and if i was lucky .a bag of smiths crisps ,i think the pub landlord went by the name of ernie addlington .some thing sounding like that any way,on the other corner was a chippy ,and every friday i had to go there for my dads tea of which consisted of faggots and peas but you had take your own basin to put them in also just around the corner in piggot st was a ciggy shop called lambs and my nan used to send me there for menthol snuff weighed out and served in cone shaped little paper bag ,one day i remember ,i was about 9 at the time i decided to have a sneaky pinch on before taking it back to my nan ,nearly blew my head off ,also got a clout off her as she noticed that the tears where streaming down my face ,.i could go on for ever ,again happy days
Jenlen said:
Lovely to see these pictures as it is hard to find photos of Latimer Street and the terraces. I expect buying a camera was not on most peoples minds back then.
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Hi. I have just stumbled across this site and the discussions on Latimer Street. I think we lived at no 24 with my mother, father, three siblings and three aunts! Not sure who had the bath first!
Would somebody please clarify something for me please - do the posts on this site refer to Latimer Street that was changed to Ripley Street or to Latimer Street South? Finding out this morning that there were two Latimer Streets and that one had a name change has really confused me. Any information would be appreciated.
 
Tommy
I think all the posts refer to events in the last 100 years, so would refer to Latimer St South, as the other street changed it's name in the 1890s
 
Thank you Mike, very interesting. So we must have lived in Latimer Street South. Strange that my parents and aunties never referred to the "South".
One of the aunts that lived with us then still lives in Birmingham. I shall ask her when I see her next.
Thank you again.
 
Tommy
Although it is named as Latimer St south on 19th century maps, by 1921 it is just marked as Latimer St, presumably as the other one had then disappeared
 
Hi, my great grandparents ran a small shop out of their converted front room at 76 Cregoe Street, a sort of a grocers come sweet shop. He was William Robinson, she was Georgina.

Over the years William lived in Latimer Street, Ryland Road and Cregoe Street. I have attached three photos of what appears to be several 'boys day out'. I am pretty sure by the ages of my grand father and great grandfather I have them in the correct order timewise.

If you look carefully you will see a lot of the people appear in all the photos. This would indicate it's maybe a pub trip or some kind of club. I just wondered if anyone recognises a family member on any of the photos or where the trip may have originated?

In the first one my grandfather is sitting on the ground third from the right with the white hat on. He was born in December 1899, so I would guess he is about 14/15 on this photo which puts it about 1915.His father is directly behind him. The next one he is sitting in the charabanc behind the flowers maybe 16/17. In the final one he is again sitting on the floor third from the right maybe 20'ish.

Malcolm
 

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try putting latimer street in the search box as there are probably one or two photos somewhere on the forum

lyn
 
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