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I have the two photographs below. Both are taken of one end of Hampden St when the area was being demolished, but am not sure at which end they were taken, Wenman St or Vincent St. Can anyone help?
The blue shopped front was the fish shop if i recall right and just down from that was the old wenman street boys club which was never opened while i lived in the street
hi jacko
i lived in 23 hampden street in 1941 till 1959 and when i got married in 1960 i moved to 1 hampden street, the shop you remember was a green grocers owned by mrs kay,we moved from hampden street about 1963 and down to mary street , the boys club was still open in the fifties.
all for now
ringo39
Thank you for information on Hampden Street. My mother was born at no. 25 in 1913. Her mother Sarah Jones was servant, living with a William Rea at that time. Does anyone have any more information on her or the road etc?? Thank you
All I can tell you is Hamden St was a hill ran ran downhill from Vincent St to Wenman St, in my youth a lot later than 1913 there was a builders yard on the Vincent St Corner with the Rose & Crown pub opposite. On the two corners at the bottom of the hill were two shops.
Year________Ward________________qual_____________First name__Surname__House number__________Abode/Other info__________________Street
1912---Balsall Heath Ward---dwelling house (successive)-----William-------Bea-------14 Hampden---14 Hampden street and 25 Hampden street---Hampden street
Hi jhunter
i lived in hampden st from 1942 till 1961 i lived at 23 and then no1, the builders where griffith and hutton , my gran lived at 24 and the prices lived at 25 , the rickards at 26 , this was in the 1940,s to the 1960,s
dave
Thanks bernie. Never had that problem before. It works fine with google chrome and firefox, but aol just gives box with file size saying click . when I do this i just get red cross in corner of screen. still doesn't matter as other browsers are ok,
Reading a large number of reports on this problem, the fault seems to lie with Internet Explorer. If I right click on the place where the image should be and 'Save Picture As' to anywhere on the computer it can then be opened! Best thing would be to convert the picture to a jpg and repost it.
.........5 minutes later! I have noticed that when I saved the picture it saved as a jpg, not a gif so it appears that something is changing the extension on your file from jpg to gif. This has also been mentioned in the reports I've read but I haven't yet found anyone who has come up with a solution!