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East Meadway 1956.

Mickymoo

Mickymoo

master brummie
Recently came across this pic. of new shops being completed on East Meadway in 1956..The unfinished one second from right was mine from 1974 to 1994 !72.jpeg
 
Great photo Mickymoo what a great find for you. I always think the people who took these photo's had great foresight. Lets face it photography was expensive then.
 
I guess he works at Oasis then,they have three of the shops now I believe !
 

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Yes,I was pleased to find the pic. and surprised to see that the last shop completed would be mine some years later !
 
Oasis took over the shop from me, Carl Chester was running it at the time. His father Keith was a neighbour of mine in Third Avenue.
 
Hi MickeyMoo, I think this is either a shot of the Kents Moat development which was opened in 1959 by the singer Michael Holiday (I was there), and was pronounced the largest pedstrian only shopping centre in Europe at the time. Or it could also possibly be the row of shops still standing opposite to where the Mackadown sttod, near Sir Wilfrid Martineau lower school - I went there too! Regards, Dragger Barry
 
I went to Central Grammer, behind these shops in Gressel lane. The end shop used to sell Hornby railways - often spent some time staring in that window!
 
The end shop was an off licence,the next one was the Hornby shop,it was my business from 1974 to 1994. :))
 
Mickymoo my dad and brother would have visited your shop a few times then, we used to stop on our way back from visiting dads aunts on Station Road at Stechford.
More recently - although thinking about it, 19 years ago!!- used to get pizza from the shop towards the Chelmsley end of the row of shops, it was the closest one to Coleshill that was open late.
Sue
 
Hi sistersue,when I first had the shop it was toys,models,etc. but I changed it over several years to all fishing tackle,so if your dad and brother fished they probably did come in the shop on occasions ! :))
 
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Hi sistersue,when I first had the shop it was toys,models,etc. but I changed it over several years to all fishing tackle,so if your dad and brother fished they probably did come in the shop on occasions ! :))
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I thought it was, I used to get my maggots from there.
 
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Recently came across this pic. of new shops being completed on East Meadway in 1956..The unfinished one second from right was mine from 1974 to 1994 !View attachment 84036
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HOW WONDERFUL. I was a paperboy at the newsagents,which was about half way up. I used to deliver around Gerardsfield and Shirestone Road. I used to go to Shirestone and then Central Grammar in Gressel Lane As I lived in the prefabs in Leycroft Avenue,next door to the school -this suited me !! Colin Stark
 
COLINSTARK said:
HOW WONDERFUL. I was a paperboy at the newsagents,which was about half way up. I used to deliver around Gerardsfield and Shirestone Road. I used to go to Shirestone and then Central Grammar in Gressel Lane As I lived in the prefabs in Leycroft Avenue,next door to the school -this suited me !! Colin Stark
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Further..I have been informed that the newsagents in East Meadway was owned by a MRS MOORE. My mum used to send me to the newsagents for 5 PLAYERS WEIGHTS. The other 5 were kept for a few days. No Vaping then !!!!!!!!
 
East Meadway shops I remember:- Greengrocer, Billingham’s sweet shop, Chemist, Collins grocers, Moore’s newsagents, Brayley’s carpets, Delicatessen, Boyce’s grocers,a butchers, a sport shop and two hardware shops, one which sold Pink paraffin, one sold Esso Blue. When I shopped for my mother, the paraffin cost 2s2d a gallon. There may have been a funeral director there too. I think Boyce’s enabled mum to shop when there was too much week left at the end of the money.
 
My Dad and Mum had CLARKE’S Drapers shop next to Sweet shop. I think it’s a funeral parlour now. I lived there 1954 to 1962, went to Shirestone.
 
Shiela. What years did you go to Shirestone? My favourite teacher was Miss Pullen(later Mrs Walker). Remember.
I was head paperboy at Newsagents. Downhill since then!!!!!!!!!!! Colin Stark
 
I was at Shirestone 1956 - 1962/3. We left the area and, although my sister stayed at Byng Kendrick, sadly, I went to Grammar School in Solihull. Missed my Shirestone mates! Yes Miss Pullen was great, class teacher one year (old 4th. Year I think?). Mr. Penny was headmaster, I only had to see him once, for playing marbles on the grass with the boys. What were your dates?
 
Seems that I am much older than you ! I went to Shirestone when it opened in (?) 1953 until I went to Central Grammar in Summer of 1958. I lived in Leycroft Avenue next to Byng Kenrick and Central Grammar. I loved the BK uniforms !!! Miss Pullen was my form teacher in my last year. In these pages I met Barbara Tidball who sat next to me in that last year.
 
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Seems that I am much older than you ! I went to Shirestone when it opened in (?) 1953 until I went to Central Grammar in Summer of 1958. I lived in Leycroft Avenue next to Byng Kenrick and Central Grammar. I loved the BK uniforms !!! Miss Pullen was my form teacher in my last year. In these pages I met Barbara Tidball who sat next to me in that last year.
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You may have crossed paths with my older sister, born in 1947. Janice Clarke?
The son of the caretaker of the boys Grammar (Central) was in my year and we used to go and play in the gym during school hols.....I bet that doesn’t happen now ! I’ll ask her if she recalls you or Barbara. Great site isn’t it?
 
Don't tell me ! Can't be. I once went out with a girl called Janice. Only for a couple of weeks or so. I think it would be around 1962. I was still at Central,we were only 15- but I had managed to get enough money to take her to see an Elvis film. Can't remember anything else. Anyway I was always too shy !! Colin
 
I’ve asked her the question, but she doesn’t seem to remember anything I bring up about our childhood so we may never know !
 
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