golden hillock road shops

[cruxton1963]

When I got marrried in 1957 we lived in rooms in Lloyd Street and I worked at the BSA, and used to walk down Golden Hillock Road to Armoury Road, strange looking at the photos I don't recall many of the shops at all, two I remember was Kathleen Draisey who sold ladies clothes on the left hand side of GH going toward the Co-op, and there was also a laundry on the right side of GH on the same stretch.

My grandmother Kathleen O'Grady worked in Draisey's until the mid 70s. She lived until 1970 at 369 Cooksey Road (the house in which both my mother and I were born) - she continued working there until retirement. My brother and I used to go into the shop sometimes with her on a Saturday which we loaved. I also remember a grocers called Lancasters,

 

[Phil]

bhatti - here ya go....View attachment 99027View attachment 99028View attachment 99029View attachment 99030

Going back to the beginning of this thread, regardless of what I said at the time I now realise that photo No 2 is The Swan Junction at Yardley. In fact the bus has just navigated the island and is heading down the Coventry Rd toward Sheldon. The timbered building to the front &right of the bus is the old New Inns.