Gower Street

[Michael_Ingram]

This thread is an offshoot of the Guildford Street thread here: https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11058&page=15&p=425001#post425001
First a 1938 map of the area - Gower Street can be found at the top right below Lozells Road

 

[Michael_Ingram]

I will post some photos that have been previously posted before by me and others, probably Astoness. The first three are Gower Street Scool

 

[Michael_Ingram]

And now some of the street

 

[Michael_Ingram]

More

 

[Michael_Ingram]

Finally

 

[G G Jean]

Thanks for the photo's Mike. Pete said he did a lot of scrapping down that road.

 

[dottieau]

My Birth mother was born back of 64 Gower Street in 1921

 

[sylviasayers]

Mike, those photos bring memories back to me, when I was about 13 years old, my friend and I had crushes on a couple of lads who lived in Gower Street, and we would cut up from Furnace Lane into Gower Street hoping to "accidentally" bump into them. We hardly ever saw them, but must have spent quite a few weeks that summer hoping to.

 

[Banjo]

Saw this photo on the Guilford St thread and realised that it is the only photograph I've ever seen that shows any part of the 'new' school. The ground floor of the furthest section shown was the library in 1961, next to our classroom ( Mr Ward 4B ).