Hello Dave. I lived in Bracebridge street too (number 20), at the aston road end, near the traffic lights. I am like yourself & would dearly love to see photo's of all the house in our street before they were demolished. I have only seen photo's of where my house used to be. I really loved my time there, & went to school around the corner at Elkington street.
Yes definitely bracebridge street as pic num 10 shows 174 and 176 my parents bought 174 around 1955-56 we were very lucky we had a bathroom built on from the kitchen when they bought it which was very rare in them days ,I remember my mum telling me the people they bought it from the husband was high up in the some union and was well off also the alleyway at the side of our house led on to another alley that took you through to ashford street where spartan steel factory was .The factory next to our house I do not know what it was called but it extended all the way round the corner and up ashford street.Great PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Aston Lad. It certainly does look like Elkington street school. I was at both at both. From how I remember the doorway, it appears like elkington street.
Hi I know it's an old post but I do know the last people to own this cafe was an Italian couple called the fabrees my brother use to go with there son to the same grammar school in the late 60s till the early 70s when we left and I am sure they left the same time.you never know they might of bought the cafe from your uncle.
Not knowing the year..but could they have been gas masks?
Looking carefully at the clothes the children are wearing, I think you may have a point Dave A about the sashes being gas mask cases.
Well Sugar, I think you could well be right! My Uncle and Aunt sold the cafe in about 67/68 and moved to Wylde Green. I don't know anything about the new owners though. I don't think the cafe survived for much longer as everything was flattened in the redevelopment. It was a funny building with most of the rooms designed to fit the corner plot.
Yes we had to move no one had a choice it was compulsary purchase so we got paid for our house plus the moving costs this was in 1972 ,years later we found out the family next door who were a lovely Sikh family never took the first offer they were offered and refused to leave until they got more money which they probably got so we missed out we did not know we could do this we were so nieve in them DAYS!
I have just come across some paperwork belonging to my parents on the purchase of their house in bracebridge street in 1955 the solicitors were Bottely and Sharp at 47 Temple Row Birmingham 2 their fee was 40 pound and the house cost them 900 pound so even then the solicitors took alot of money for there services .So really at least the solicitors have not changed since then they all still charge high prices for their services !!!
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