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Berners Street, Lozells

cookie273uk said:
Lyn, I will wait until you visit archives in case you manage to obtain a photo which I could do a more accurate painting from. Using your old drawing entails a bit of guess work and artists licence, particular with colours, its also a bit blurred but being old enough to remember using old pubs of this style does help, a lot of old corner pubs had a lot in common. You are welcome to this one unless I turn out something beyyer. Eric
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eric i have saved that one to my pc..i have asked the library to do a search for me for a photo of the globe and asked for an appointment for the week after next....as soon as i get a reply from them i will let you know.. even if i do get one i would feel honoured to have that painting hanging next to other very special pubs that you have painted for me...

lyn
 
my husband lived at no 87 berner street in 1965 is the house still standing
he lived in wellsley street before that
josie
 
Josie
The street south of Gerrrard st soe not exist as a street any more, and only houses north of that on the west side remain. the lowest number is about 157.
 
hi josie the library say they do not have any photos of berners st but i shall keep looking..

lyn
 
hi lyn
thanks for trying it would be great if you manage to find one i have a lot of happy memories of the house in berner street
josie
 
I have just found out that my great great grandfather George Rachel lived with my great grandfather John Steven Rachel and great grandmother with my grandfather George Rachel at 74 Berners Street in 1911 when my grandfather was 9. Amazing.
 
Hi jos and night nurse
we lived at 156 berners street right next door to the old school and four doors from the pub
on the corner of gerrard street
And if my memory serves me correctly many years ago i seem to recall i was in touch with lyn
And promised her i would try and meet her there but i never did for reason of some think or another
To have a tot with her and afew of the old guys whom i knew there as it was my local
eventualy i left and went to live in london for a spell
then i came back to brum and settled down mom went to live in edgebaston
best wishes Alan,,, Astonian,,
 
Hello, does anyone know exactly where 139 Berners St was? It was my grandparents’ home until they were bombed out during the war. Was it close to Gerrard St? I know it was a terrace house and close to two schools.
 
Berner Street 2.jpg Berners Street 1.jpg Berners Street 3.jpg hi samantha and welcome...hopefully mikejee will spot your post and will be able to provide you with a map showing 139 although i can tell you that 139 was at the end of the street that as been demolished (the top half remains)...i would think the 2 schools you refer to would be lozells girls (which i attended) and lozells infants and juniors berners st started at gt king st went past burbury st park rising all the time it finished at lozells road...here are 3 photos of the street...the one with the two ladies shows the top end of the street looking towards lozells road and the other 2 shows the end where your gran lived as you can see they are getting boarded up ready for demolision..

lyn
 
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Thanks Lyn, great photos! My uncle talked about going down to a shelter in Burbury Park in his siren suit the night the street got bombed so it does sound like it was close by there. Fingers crossed that mikejee spots my post, I’d love to see the location on a map!

Regards
Samantha
 
happy to help samantha...i think seeing photos puts a bit of meat on the bones of our family history...quite sure mike will spot this as mapping is his thing...:)

lyn
 
Astoness said:
frankie if you are looking in turn away now...

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My Nan and grandad ran he Union during and after the war
 
My ancestor George Moore in the 1861 census was living at 14 Berner Street and working as a gun finisher.
The other people living on his street all seemed to have similarly creative jobs (there's a clock maker, silver chain maker, steel pen maker, and a jeweler, just on this page alone), so I feel that business in this area must've been booming at the time, but I can't seem to find much information online.
Does anyone know anything about the history of Berner Street, or have any old pictures or maps of it?
 
12 court was in the section of road between Clifford Street and Gerrard Street, this is the section of map that shows where number 6 was.

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Paper_Flower said:
My ancestor George Moore in the 1861 census was living at 14 Berner Street and working as a gun finisher.
The other people living on his street all seemed to have similarly creative jobs (there's a clock maker, silver chain maker, steel pen maker, and a jeweler, just on this page alone), so I feel that business in this area must've been booming at the time, but I can't seem to find much information online.
Does anyone know anything about the history of Berner Street, or have any old pictures or maps of it?
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Hi, my post was moved to this thread but I think it was done so incorrectly. The street I'm looking for has no "s" at the end. It seems to be very definitely Berner Street, not Berners Street.
 
In some early directories (ie the 1862 Corporation directory ) it is referred to as Berner St, but this is the same street as Berners St.
 
Apologies to the member asking for court 12 Berners St as their post has accidentally been deleted. But Phil has answered your question with a map on post 109
 
hi wondering did anyone know my nan she lived in berner street number 113 her name was mary wilsonthe house was by the garage or coach place .i was born 1950 and lived there with nan my mom rosena and dad cyril and grandad of course i think my aunt clara uncle dan lived there to would be lovely to know if any one knew them thankyou .
 
hi christine and welcome sad to say that our member astonian passed away earlier this year but if you look at the map on post 105 you will see that the garage/coach station was much further up berners st..near to lozells road...no 113 which is also showing on map and was much further down and as far as i can see had no garage next to it...

lyn
 
its no trouble christine...hard for us to get things exactly right when we are trying to remember things as children...i can actually recall the coach garage as a child

lyn
 
christene wade said:
gosh that is so small cant see 113 anyway i can get map bigger please thanks
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if you save the map to your computer christine you will then be able to zoom into the map and enlarge it but if you go to post 109 there is another map which is larger and shows no 113 quite clearly

lyn
 
christene wade said:
hi wondering did anyone know my nan she lived in berner street number 113 her name was mary wilsonthe house was by the garage or coach place .i was born 1950 and lived there with nan my mom rosena and dad cyril and grandad of course i think my aunt clara uncle dan lived there to would be lovely to know if any one knew them thankyou .
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Hi Christine. I used to live next door to Mrs Wilson. I lived with my grandmother, Emily Oldfield at the second hand furniture shop, the other side of us were the Banhams. I remember Mrs Wilson very well, she was a very jolly lady, she loved a party.
 
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