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Bordesley Green Doctors...

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Hi,

I used to live at 123 Whitehall Road then 69 before moving down to Bordesley Green East by East Birmingham Hospital. I too opened my first bank account at the Municipal in Bordesley Green.
I remember Marsden's the barber and I knew his daughter. Also Bates the newsagents. Did anyone go on any of the trips with Direct Coaches in Prince Albert Street, having a sing song on the way home. Also does anyone remember doctor Jones surgery between Victoria Street and Prince Albert Street. My dad worked for the Morris Commercial in Adderley Park, what excellent Xmas parties they had for the kids.
 
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Thanks for the pics, Brummie Nick. The one shows Dallaways Garage which was there pre-war and still there.

I almost bought a house in Fifth Avenue (or maybe it was Fourth?) in 1952. The price was £950. But I pulled out of the deal in favour of a property in Rotton Park Edgbaston.

Recalling Bob Marsden's hairdressers earlier, I should have added that Bob was an avid Birmingham historian, Small Heath in particular and he wrote a few books on the subject. Originally from Sheffield, he arrived here after the war and settled in Small Heath with his wife, Mary.

Someone has mentioned Dr Jones up by the Vic pub and there was also Dr Lloyd in Blake Lane. Our family doctor throughout the war was Dr Bose in Cherrywood Road. Were there more doctors locally?
 
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Also in Blake Lane were Drs Martin and Benbow.
The Custard house had a Bowling Green and a covered seating area at the back.
 
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I lived at the bottom of Charles Road opposite the Coach and Horses , I remember Bob Marsdens , Wadhams the butchers Freddie Turners veg shop , Mrs Henn's grocery shop on the corner of Charles Road ,Craigs the cycle shop, and a Sunday School down Byfield ? Passage ,off Norwood Road also remember fetching faggots and peas in a jug from a fish shop in Cherrywood Road , there were also two doctors that had a surgery next to Grange Road park man and wife I thought were named Lloyd ,I broke one of their windows playing cricket, she was not amused . Bernie
 
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Dr Lloyd and his wife were our family doctors, we went to them after, for some reason leaving doctors down past the Kingston. Dr Loyd was wonderful to my father who suffered a lot of ill heath. Their was also a lady Doctor called Dr Troup. They had a garden wall which backed onto Grange Rd park.
Jan
 
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I used to live opposite direct coaches no 39 prince albert st
my dad used the the vic pub and the bookeis
i remember dr jones surgery thats when they knew you by name not a number does anyone remember the baby shop corner of carlton rs sold lovely baby dress s the shop tha sold all the wimsies
next to us in p albert st was gough s the people who had the wood yard
ad i think there was a plumber the other side
there ws a church the corner
 
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doctor martin what a no nonsence star i lived in the out door in greenway street and the doc was so straight and funny happy days
 
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Surprised no one has mentioned the surgery next to the Vic pub. Big old house, I think its a car wash now.

Dr's Jones & Bowen, and I think Benbow. I can remember queueing all the way around the corner with my sister for a Smallpox jab in the early 60s.
 
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yes i remember the doctors surgery they had a nurse that used to call you in if she felt you should see the doc urgent
there was a bookies next door and a baptist church opposite
i used to live opposite direct coaches about 1953 ish
 
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Dr Bowen, Dr Jones, Dr Martin, Dr James and Dr Benbow were all partners in the same practice. They ran three surgeries. Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones worked - as fatfingers so rightly tells us in Post #8 - in a big Victorian house which used to stand set back from the road alongside the Victoria pub on Bordesley Green; Dr Martin had a surgery on Bordesley Green East; and Dr James and Dr Benbow shared a surgery in another large house in the lower part of Blake Lane (their receptionist was Nurse Miller). All five doctors often stood in for each other and were frequently seen at another surgery. db84124
 
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alana124 said:
yes i remember the doctors surgery they had a nurse that used to call you in if she felt you should see the doc urgent
there was a bookies next door and a baptist church opposite
i used to live opposite direct coaches about 1953 ish
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And kick you out if you hadnt brought your medical card.
 
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yes i remember the doctors surgery they had a nurse that used to call you in if she felt you should see the doc urgent
there was a bookies next door and a baptist church opposite
i used to live opposite direct coaches about 1953 ish.

Cant remember a Baptist Church, There was a Methodist Church on the corner though.
 
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db84124 said:
Dr Bowen, Dr Jones, Dr Martin, Dr James and Dr Benbow were all partners in the same practice. They ran three surgeries. Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones worked - as fatfingers so rightly tells us in Post #146 - in a big Victorian house which used to stand set back from the road alongside the Victoria pub on Bordesley Green; Dr Martin had a surgery on Bordesley Green East; and Dr James and Dr Benbow shared a surgery in another large house in the lower part of Blake Lane (their receptionist was Nurse Miller). All five doctors often stood in for each other and were frequently seen at another surgery. db84124
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I think there was also Dr D.M.Ellis in the Group somewhere. Super big tall guy with huge Deirdre Barlow glasses and jug ears. He lived in big house Vicarage Road in Yardley. Moved to the Practice in Yardley Green Rd from Blake Lane. Was the Blues doctor and looked after Trevor Francis's legs, amongst others. Now well retired. Saw him last week in Solihull Town Centre with his diminutive wife. He told me he was born in Pretoria Road. Great guy with a fantastic line of common sense advice. "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear" was one that springs to mind...
 
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Dr Don Ellis was never a member of the practice mentioned in Post #10. In Post #10, I was referring to the practice at the lower end of Blake Lane; there was a second partnership in Blake Lane, but it was between the Custard House (on the same side) and Yardley Green Road. I believe Dr Ellis was in partnership with Dr Lou Lloyd, whose surgery was alongside the park in Green Lane/Grange Road. The two groups of doctors were brought together - as you so rightly say - with the opening of Yardley Green Medical Centre in Yardley Green Road. db84124
 
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Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly off thread. This Bordesley Green thread is in the section "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies" and, although everything contributed is very interesting, it is all somewhat irrelevant to the medical theme of the sub-forum. Perhaps your photos should go in the Birmingham History Network, Birmingham History paragraph. With respect, David
 
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With respect ,if the Forum owner sees fit to post non Doctor Etc posts on this thread then i shall continue to do so , i posted on this thread due to placing a photograph of what was said to have been the Doctors house !!!! Next door to the Victoria Pub , the beauty of friendly forums as this one is that one thing leads on to another and our knowledge in history of given areas grows .
 
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db84124 said:
Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly off thread. This Bordesley Green thread is in the section "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies" and, although everything contributed is very interesting, it is all somewhat irrelevant to the medical theme of the sub-forum.
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I think that the original post was put in the wrong thread, if you go back to #1 there in no mention of "Doctors, Medical & Old Remedies"
simply a request for memories of Bordesley Green
 
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maxwell bullivant said:
Thanks Nick , i feel vindicated , i thought i had posted in the correct place . If its good enough for Postie then its the correct place . Cheers mate .I cant say i take too well to being told what to do . God Bless Mate . Max
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Especially after the first mention of Dr's and Nurses was Post 145, and that only elicited around six or seven replies subsequently anyway. So don't fret Max...Rock on...andiamo....
 
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Like magic part of this thread has now been moved to 'Neighbours & Streets' so no more worries ... please enjoy posting.
 
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Dr Ianto James was the official Royal Navy doctor in East Birmingham and any seaman who had been granted sick leave would have to be examined by Dr James before returning to duty or having his leave extended.
He once told me that at a dinner party, he had got into conversation with a well-to-do lady and when she had asked him about is particular branch of medicine, he had told her, "I'm a naval doctor."
To which the lady - he never said whether she was blonde - replied, "My, how you doctors specialise!" .............. db84124
 
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Dr Jones was our doctor (we lived in Park Villas, Witton Street), and I seem to remember the names of Drs Bowen and Benbow.

Memories of the surgery: the sound of the gas fire, the padded bench that ran round the walls, and the way patients used to move around like a snake (as I thought as a child) when the next in the queue went in. I think there was pale green paint.

I can't remember a receptionist, but surely there was one? What I can remember is a medicinal smell, and that as you went down the corridor to Dr Jones' room, there was a partitioned-off part of the corridor (green paint again?) on the left, behind which was...what? An office, a nurse - i really can't remember.

Dr Jones was a very nice person. My mother told me that his wife died young.
 
Maria Magenta said:
Dr Jones was our doctor (we lived in Park Villas, Witton Street), and I seem to remember the names of Drs Bowen and Benbow.

Memories of the surgery: the sound of the gas fire, the padded bench that ran round the walls, and the way patients used to move around like a snake (as I thought as a child) when the next in the queue went in. I think there was pale green paint.

I can't remember a receptionist, but surely there was one? What I can remember is a medicinal smell, and that as you went down the corridor to Dr Jones' room, there was a partitioned-off part of the corridor (green paint again?) on the left, behind which was...what? An office, a nurse - i really can't remember.

Dr Jones was a very nice person. My mother told me that his wife died young.
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yeah, the manky old gas fire stuck in my mind as well, and the wooden partition that you had to ait by when it was your turn next. it was where the Nurse/receptionist hung out, all the old buff medical records were stored in there.

Docs Bowen & Jones were quire old, or at least seemed to be to me when I was little, but who was the younger one with I think an Irish accent ?
 
Hello there, col h,
"....... the younger one with I think an Irish accent" would have been Dr Aidan Martin; he was the only Irishman in the 5-doctor, 3-surgery practice. The other four doctors were all Welsh and had the associated, pronounced "sing-song" accent. Although younger than both Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones, Dr Martin was not the youngest of the five GPs. The youngest - and "newest" - was Dr Benbow, who joined the practice in 1957.
Dr Aidan Martin's son, Dr Niall Martin, was also a member of the practice prior to and after their joining other local doctors at the Yardley Green Medical Centre. David

Hello, Maria,
Dr Jones's wife, Myra, outlived him quite handsomely. David
 
Hello again, Maria,
I've sent you a private message (IM: Instant Message); I hope you've found it. Best regards, David
 
There was a doctors practice in Blake Lane at the top end, where Dr Williamson, Dr Ellis and Dr Gregory practiced. They also had a surgery in the middle of Finnemore Road opposite the park.
At the bottom end of Blake Lane was the practice that had Dr Bembow and others.
 
maxwell bullivant said:
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With respect ,if the Forum owner sees fit to post non Doctor Etc posts on this thread then i shall continue to do so , i posted on this thread due to placing a photograph of what was said to have been the Doctors house !!!! Next door to the Victoria Pub , the beauty of friendly forums as this one is that one thing leads on to another and our knowledge in history of given areas grows .
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I am looking for a photo of this house as I lived there with my parents for 10 years. They were caretakers for the Doctors . Just one room used for a waiting room the rest was an add on we had the rest of this very large house as our home.
 
maxwell bullivant said:
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With respect ,if the Forum owner sees fit to post non Doctor Etc posts on this thread then i shall continue to do so , i posted on this thread due to placing a photograph of what was said to have been the Doctors house !!!! Next door to the Victoria Pub , the beauty of friendly forums as this one is that one thing leads on to another and our knowledge in history of given areas grows .
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Did you ever find the photo of the Doctors Surgery next to the Victoria Pub I am trying to find one, My parents were caretakers for the practice and we lived there as a family for 12 years
 
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