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Bombing of Ash Road Saltley

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elle-jay

master brummie
Hi There.

This may be a long shot, but does anyone know roughly when during the war Ash Road in Saltley was bombed?

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
There may have been other bombings of Ash Road, but there were two houses bombed which resulted in fatalities. 19/11/40 (no.153) and 10/4/41(no.53).
 
Thanks Icarus, Thats interesting reading and very useful information the house i was interested in was number 132. All I was told was that no one died I think. But the house was completely burned to the ground.
 
I moved to Ash Road in the mid 1950's to a new Council Flat. There were three blocks nos. 51, 53 and 55. We lived in flat 1/55 which was the last block (oposite St. Saviours Church). over the road on the corner of Ash Road and Hall Road were masionettes, also built in the 50's

At the top of Ash Road (towards Bordesley Green) there was quite a few Masionettes on both sides which I understand were also built on "bomb sites"
 
Thank Sue,

I wondered when the flats were built, where the flats opposite on the corner of hall Road is I think where my families house was If I have counted the houses right. Do you have any photos of the area at the time you moved there?:)
 
Sorry I don't have any photos.

I've just been looking on Google maps, going up the road with the church on the left there are some "new" houses built next to the church and then the old house numbers start around 150. Coming back down to road the same side, the last old house before Hall Road is number 64. So I think 132 would have been further up, the other side of St Savious Church.

The site where our flats were is now called City View.
 
Attached is a map from c.1901 of ash road, showing no 132 in red.
mike


Ash_Road_Saltley_c_1901.jpg
 
At the end of the war, the houses still occupied were....

Odds
1-49
(New flats built c1950?)
79-109
113-127
(New maisonettes built c1950?)
161-191

Evens
2-8
12-44
52-64 (corner of Hall Road)
Graveyard
(New Maisonettes built c1950?)
148-172
176-196

I knew the area fairly well and knew quite a few families in Ash Road in the 50s/60s
 
Thanks Guys,
For all your help it's really useful, I wonder if anyone else out there has stories of the Blitz in Ash Road?
 
Bombing of Ash Road and St Saviour's Cemetery

Hi,

Does anybody have any dates when the St Saviour's Church Cemetery was bombed?

Talking to the vicar there last summer who told me that cemetery suffered a large crater when German bombers dropped bombers on the cemetery whilst trying to hit Saltley sidings. Unfortunately for me this was the area where my relatives had there family grave.

Any help appreciated.

Kind regards - Joe Burke
billygarraty.com
 
hi my nan winifred edwards lived at 153 ash road saltley she lived with her mother edith winter thomas winter and her sister harriet jones and her husband walter jones walters mother mary jones also lived with them. harriet and walter had a son frederick jones. i have got this information from the 1911 census anyone have any idea or know of these people.

many thanks teresa


researching edwards saunders winter and jones.
 
The only person registered on the electoral roll for 1912 at 153 Ash Road is an amy allbright. I'm very unknowledgable about the 1912 rolls with regard to women. They didn't have the vote but were included for owning the property (I think), so amy was probably the owner, not the resident
mike
 
I have just been looking at this thred and number 153 Ash Road rang a bell. My wife's Grt Nan and Grandad lived in Ash Road at number 157. I know that they (William James Griffin and Ellen Mary Jane Griffin) lived there from 1920 until 1938. William passed away on the 22nd May 1937. Ellen then must have moved in to 153 to live with her daughter Amy Lily Woodward and son in law John Henry Woodward.
Does anyone remember the family?
Where can i get information from about number 153 being bombed?

Cheers

Steve
 
I lived in the flats at number 155. We moved in when the flats were newly built around 1955. The people living at 157 were Mr and Mrs Payne and they were still there when we left in 1967.
 
Steve, The names of the three people killed at 153 Ash Road, can be found on the Swanshurst/Barra site.

https://www.swanshurst.org/barra/

It lists
Stanley Bowyer
Martha Hartill
Elizabeth Ann Jervis
I cannot post a direct link to the page there is a fault, so you need to enter Ash Road in the Location of Injury search box.
Hope that helps

Colin
 
Thanks very much Colin. I have just viewed the site. It looks as if the Woodwards/Griffin family had a lucky escape. They probaly moved shortly before this happened. The next time that i am in the Birmingham Reference Library i'll try and find a write up on the incident.

Regards

Steve
 
Steve,

Wartime restrictions on reporting during the war were very severe, at most bombing raids and damage caused to Birmingham were reported as "Damage to a town in the Midlands" with no mention of the exact location, sometimes you can get an idea of the location from photographs in the papers...

As an aside, there resides in the Birmingham Archives a number of boxes filled with photographs of war time damage to Birmingham, most of the photographs have the location on the rear, you might well be lucky there.
 
Thanks for that information dib. I was thinking that it may have been mentioned in the Birmingham Post/mail. I'll have a look anyway.

Thanks again

Steve
 
My mom has lived in Ash Road, for 70yrs. And she told me that the houses next to 6 Ash Road were bombed.
 
Please ignore my message about living at 155 Ash Road, because I didn't live there at all. I lived in the flats at 55 Ash Road which were also built on a site that was bombed. Mr & Mrs Payne lived at 57
 
From the BARRA site Martha Hartill aged 77 and Elizabeth Ann Jervis lived at 153 Ash Rd.They were fatally injured on 19/11/1940
Margaret Victoria Turland aged 34 lived at 53 Ash Rd and was fatally injured on 10/04/1941.
 
Martha Hartill (nee Lodge) was the Mother-in-law of my Great Aunt and Elizabeth Ann Jervis was the sister of my Great Aunt. I never knew about them until I researched my Great Aunt a few days ago and found their deaths on the BARRA site. Stanley Bowyer was Martha's grandson.

How strange that these posts should appear just as I am researching this family connection :)
 
ladylinda said:
From the BARRA site Martha Hartill aged 77 and Elizabeth Ann Jervis lived at 153 Ash Rd.They were fatally injured on 19/11/1940
Margaret Victoria Turland aged 34 lived at 53 Ash Rd and was fatally injured on 10/04/1941.
Click to expand...

my wife,s nan Margaret Victoria Turland(nee King) aged 34 lived at 53 Ash Rd and was fatally injured on 10/04/1941
 
I lived in the flats at 55 Ash Road. They were built around 1950 and then demolished in the 70s I think. There were 3 blocks in all, numbers 55, 53 and 51.

I worked at Mrs. Cutts, the grocer down the bottom of Ash Road, not too far from the junction with Adderley Rd.
 
My grandparents lived in 117 Ash Road during the 39-45 war and my grandmother lived until there until 1963 when she died. Her name was Kathleen Mary Parker (nee Sherwin born in Dublin) and my grandfather, who died in the early 5Os, was William Henry Parker. Both were ARP wardens and my father was William Parker (Pat). He also lived there until he joined up. As a child I visited 117 many times and remember the lavatory down the garden. My mother and father remembered the bombings in Ash Road and on one occasion gravestones from the churchyard were thrown across the road, over their house and into the back garden. My father had to collect human remains, including a head, from the garden after one of the bombings. My mother remembers trembling in the bomb shelter as bombs dropped. Does anyone remember my grandparents or know anything about the Parkers or who lived in the house before or after them? I am a Brummie but my parents moved to Kidderminster when I was four years old.
 
That's interestng and a little disturbing as, and I assume you're talking about St Saviour's, I had/have relatives buried there.
 
My name is actually Dennis (Sennid is backwards!). Yes I was talking about St Saviour's. It is opposite number 117 Ash Road. I am sorry that the story is a little disturbing: I understand why. On the positive side the churchyard is quite large and so the chances would be limited to some degree. Chris, thank you for the welcome. I am really hoping someone can remember my grandparents but it is a long time ago now.
 
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