DavidGrain
master brummie
There was a maternity home in Lordswood Road. I think it is the building known as Dore House which is now a care home.
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yes indeed david...i have a friend born there in 1951...think it was an overspill maternity hospital used when closer ones were full up..if the search box is used we may have a thread for it with photos
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vicfarlowe
veteran brummie
Yes. My family used their fish shop for years. Some of the Jennings lived in St John's Road.
Smint100. My dad (Jack Groves) worked for Beaumonts doing removals for a number of years. We lived in the house next to Furbers on the High Street.Oh my word - looking for something completely different, I happened upon this page!
My mother (Beryl)'s father owned Beaumont's removals. Her sister Joan worked in the office, and her brothers James (Jim) and Charles (Bill) used to work on the vans. They sold out to Jay's in the end. Another of Mum's sisters married Tom Leonard who worked for Furber's (I think it became Furber-Leonard?) and lived in Queen's Park Road. Mum's family moved from Milford Road to Lordswood Road in one of those big old scary Victorian houses two (I think) doors down from the old swimming baths - all long gone now.
My Dad's parents ran the sweet shop in the High Street and they lived above it, although I think it was a carpet shop at one point. They still used the phrase "Sharp's the Toffee" to hurry us up, and (somewhere) I still have a toffee hammer from when they used to serve the toffee loose.
This thread, and in particular, this post, has brought back some very happy memories
addwinwood
New Member
Hi all,
Random one here, does anyone know what year the row of terraces at the end of station road/start of gordon road were built. They're distinctly a different style to the rest of the houses on the road?
Random one here, does anyone know what year the row of terraces at the end of station road/start of gordon road were built. They're distinctly a different style to the rest of the houses on the road?
MWS
from Bham
If I understand you correctly, you mean the houses on the bend? Only a rough idea but...
On the map revised 1901 there are only two properties between Wentworth Road and the fire station (oppositish Albany Road).
The next available map was revised 1913 and all the houses are now there. The layout of the houses appear to be the same as now.
On the map revised 1901 there are only two properties between Wentworth Road and the fire station (oppositish Albany Road).
The next available map was revised 1913 and all the houses are now there. The layout of the houses appear to be the same as now.
Hi All. I have just registered with your group. I happened to enter Tonks' garage on the web which was opposite my grandfather's shop (Scarf's) in the High Street, now Rumours hair salon. You have mentioned the Jennings family, who owned numerous businesses. I met many of them through the Harborne Club in Albany Road. I was born in the maternity hospital in Lordswood road in 1957. I think I was at school with Sam Lilly in 1963 at Station Rd?
addwinwood
New Member
MWS
from Bham
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