Church Road, Yardley.

[Dennis Williams]

This any help..?

 

[suemalings]

Can't quite see where that is. Where is Croft Road?

 

[oldbrit]

SUEMALINGS, Croft Road, is up the Barrows lane hill, (that we used to slide down when it snowed) off Barrows Lane towards Church Rd from where I lived at 126 Moat Lane, across from Digbeth in the field I lived there for 23 years

 

[habbasi94]

In 1964 there was a request for an illuminated sign for 75A: Jones family. However later applications have 75A in the back garden of 160 Church Road and much smaller. So maybe Jones had a filling station with that number in the large building, later keeping that number for the smaller car repair/storage unit to the west of the wall/fence after the newer houses were built.

Yes this could be right, sounds logical enough. And with the garage that backs onto church road, by the first house on Croft road, the location of a filling station would be ideal for garage/motorists.

Not like we have much else to go by to be honest, or any photos of the lower end of Croft road - by the church road.

Thanks

 

[oldbrit]

This is where CROFT ROAD enters CHURCH RD from Google street view Hmmm IT says the image file is too large for the server. But Google Street view has it. Not sure how to downsize the image? but it does show some commercial buildings at the junction of Croft Road and Church Road. this is up from the Yew Tree on Church Road going towards the Church. I do remember this Croft Road is a long road that winds around to Barrows lane then I would go down Barrows Lane to Moat Lane and my house I could email the photo I think if you give me an Email Address

 

[steveb]

Read with interest your comments on Church Road, my grandfather lived at 218, he also owned a cycle shop in the early 1950's in the same road. His name was William Linforth. His wifes parents (surname - Horsley) lived in Church Terrace - opposite St Edburgha's Church, also in Church Road Yardley. Wonder if you or others have any information on these.

Dont know if anyone remembers but i had an uncle that used to live on Church Road and operated a garage at the back of the house where he used to repair cars as a business, there was a gap in between the terraced houses where he used to take the cars to the rear garage. This would be in the 50,s and 60,s the approx location is about where Tesco filling station is now.
His name was George Edward Stenson, and before him his father also repaired cars in the same location his name was Charles Leonard Stenson.
Dont know if anyone remembers them, maybe you had your car repaired.
He lived at 53 Church Road if anyone remembers, George Edward was sadly killed in a car accident in Burntwood in 1968.

 

[Dennis Williams]

Croft Road....any better...!

 

[localmike]

Yes this could be right, sounds logical enough. And with the garage that backs onto church road, by the first house on Croft road, the location of a filling station would be ideal for garage/motorists.

Not like we have much else to go by to be honest, or any photos of the lower end of Croft road - by the church road.

Thanks

Two more files for the location showing a filling station in 1940 and a motor engineers in 1963

 

[oldbrit]

Yes this could be right, sounds logical enough. And with the garage that backs onto church road, by the first house on Croft road, the location of a filling station would be ideal for garage/motorists.

Not like we have much else to go by to be honest, or any photos of the lower end of Croft road - by the church road.

Thanks

Itried to post photos showing the end of Croft rd and Church Road it said they were too big?

 

[pjmburns]

Instructions to reduce image size here

Uploading Pictures

I want to and have tried to upload a few newspaper cutting from 1968 & 1992 that will be of interest to you all but it just keeps telling me that they are too big and I don't know how to make them smaller, any help would be appreciated :))

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[habbasi94]

Itried to post photos showing the end of Croft rd and Church Road it said they were too big?

Hi

I have not seen these. Could you try uploading again, or maybe sending them to me and I could try?

Thank you

 

[suemalings]

According to mother in law it was a two pump petrol station at the end of Croft Road.

 

[habbasi94]

Seems to be the common suggestion that it was a petrol station. The area seems wide enough to accommodate something as such.

Would appreciate any photos of this area if anyone has any!

Thank you

 

[mw0njm.]

now and then

 

[Trebor]

I lived at 46, Croft Road opposite Wroxton Road in the seventies.

 

[Susan D]

Does this web site show the photos of the petrol station you are thinking about?

THEN & NOW on the Outer Circle – stage 13

Having gone around the Tesco car park at the Swan, we join the dual carriageway that takes us to The Yew Tree – the original “commercial centre” in Yardley. There was at one time a yew tree standin…

outercirclebus.com

 

[devonjim]

Does this web site show the photos of the petrol station you are thinking about?

THEN & NOW on the Outer Circle – stage 13

Having gone around the Tesco car park at the Swan, we join the dual carriageway that takes us to The Yew Tree – the original “commercial centre” in Yardley. There was at one time a yew tree standin…

outercirclebus.com

The garage in this web is on Stoney Lane just beyond "The Yew Tree!

 

[Susan D]

The garage in this web is on Stoney Lane just beyond "The Yew Tree!

According to Google Maps Streetview, 2022 the former petrol station is now called Grayson's Inn. I must say, seeing a photo of the building in its original form it did look rather charming. How easy it is to destroy the character of a building by removing the original features like window frames and chimneys.

Incidentally, to the left of it is a commercial building which used to be the Birmingham Co-operative Society which was the main large grocer in the area when I was a child. It seemed vast to me as an infant. You can still see the BCS plaque still on the front. The upstairs of the latter, Sue Malling told us, was used as a dance hall years ago and it was where the late Queen's coronation evening party was held in 1953, mostly for local adults. The Co-op would also use the room for promotional demonstrations and films. As a child, I was taken to see a film about a factory canning food, and another time, a demo of making a cake from a cake mix.

The main shop below was originally formal counters (maybe white marble) where, say, cheese would be cut by the assistant. For hygiene, a cashier would be in some sort of booth high up in the shop against the right hand wall, near the ceiling. The customer would put their money into a metal container and it would fly up to the booth via a pully contraption of some sort where the cashier would process the purchase and return any change. A dividend (or "divi") would also be applied, a bit like a loyalty card today.

 

[steveb]

Dont know if anyone remembers but i had an uncle that used to live on Church Road and operated a garage at the back of the house where he used to repair cars as a business, there was a gap in between the terraced houses where he used to take the cars to the rear garage. This would be in the 50,s and 60,s the approx location is about where Tesco filling station is now.
His name was George Edward Stenson, and before him his father also repaired cars in the same location his name was Charles Leonard Stenson.
Dont know if anyone remembers them, maybe you had your car repaired.
He lived at 53 Church Road if anyone remembers, George Edward was sadly killed in a car accident in Burntwood in 1968.

Just to add a bit more fact Edward Stenson was married to a lady called Barbara and Len Stenson was married to Florence always known as Floss they all lived at 53 Church Road and Barbara had twins and named them Leon and Lester, just thought it might jog someones memory. Before moving to Church Road Len and Floss used to live at 96 Cranes Park Road.

 

[bramcote]

Hi there , does anyone remember a cottage called jasmine cottage in Yardley old village ?

 

[Astoness]

Hi there , does anyone remember a cottage called jasmine cottage in Yardley old village ?

have you been through this thread from post 1 as there could be a photo of the cottage...i dont know over that way very well so do not know if its still there

lyn

 

[bramcote]

Thank you I will check

 

[Dave the cyclist]

There was a small garage and petrol pumps on Croft Road it is now the site of houses the garage i think must have been demolished in the late 1960s early 1970s there was also a small builders supplies merchant at the side of a house on Church Road on the junction with Croft Road.