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My younger son was born at Lordswood maternity hospital in 1969. I belive this has now gone.
 
mike-g said:
My younger son was born at Lordswood maternity hospital in 1969. I belive this has now gone.
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My mom was born here as well in 1947 in the worst winter ever. i don't know what the building is now or even if it still exists.
 
Hi my sisters had children in Lordswood Maternity hospital,the last one born there in 1968,it has gone i think the police station is on that site now,the hospital has been gone for quite some time
 
paul stacey said:
hi liz
is the police station opposite the royalty still there.
paul
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Hi Paul no its not, and i have just been told that it isn't in Lordswod Road,The Police Station is in Rose Road, and i think its a carehome where the maternity hospital was, but its a new building
 
I lived right opposite the police station when i lived in Harborne,nearly next door to the undertakers,and i worked at the little COOP round the corner,Woolworths,Chad Valley,and a place where they made optics all 5 mins from my house
 
hi liz
thanks for that I hope you don't mind these questions but I cannot remember names now some 55 yrs on but I had a mate who lived in the prefabs on the road which went towards selly oak that started at the green man and went past the blue coat school then down a hill, the prefabs were on the left. what was the name of the road if you remember.
paul
 
paul stacey said:
hi liz
thanks for that I hope you don't mind these questions but I cannot remember names now some 55 yrs on but I had a mate who lived in the prefabs on the road which went towards selly oak that started at the green man and went past the blue coat school then down a hill, the prefabs were on the left. what was the name of the road if you remember.
paul
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Hi Paul do you mean Metchley Lane,thats where the Green Man is and i think the road you mean is Barlows Rd the road that goes down to Selly Oak from Metchley Lane is Harborne lane
 
Green man harborne looks the same i think lizhttps://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=6385
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hi liz
absolutly the same and yes I do remember metchley lane, I suppose the prefabs have all gone now, thanks .
regards
paul
 
Hi Paul, gosh i think the prefabs probably came down a long time ago,most of Harborne High St i believe is much the same,
but they seem to have taken bits out, Woolworths for instance and a couple of buildings to the side of it were demolished years
ago,they built a new Safeway store and car park,which i understand is now Waitrose. When did you last see Harborne, liz
 
paul stacey said:
hi liz
thanks for that I hope you don't mind these questions but I cannot remember names now some 55 yrs on but I had a mate who lived in the prefabs on the road which went towards selly oak that started at the green man and went past the blue coat school then down a hill, the prefabs were on the left. what was the name of the road if you remember.
paul
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Hi Paul, There were lots of prefabs in Vincent drive on the left hand side of the road and it's quite a hill.

Jean
 
Hi Jean and Paul, there has been a lot of redevelopment around there in recent years, i dont think you would find the prefabs
there now,they have built such large extensions on to the Queen Elizabeth hospital,that come right up to Vincent drive,if you know how to use google earth you could look at some of it, liz
 
hi liz
A long long time ago Liz, I left Brum on the 24th April 1964 and sadly never came back again periodically, for leave but never for long, now with my memory impaired I remember snatches and cannot evaluate them in to a time period and only in snatches, but I dearly love the city which gave me life (and may I add bronchitis) I think of it now all the time and when I get a memory I put it on the forum. It brings alive again my dear departed mom and dad, and friends long forgotten which suddenly reappear as if by magic. I cannot tell you how much the forum means to me and others who probably left years ago. My dear old Dad always said Paul as you grow steadily older you remember more of your youth than the present day, as usual he was right. I am very appreciable of your time and patience thank you.
paul
 
Hi Paul you left there just before i went to live there,I am more than happy to chat about Birmingham,no need for thanks, the
forum is great like you say you see something which brings back another memory and the great thing lots of people to share
them with,liz
 
Here is a blast from the past Paul the Junction do you remember it,,,
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The picture of the Junction brought back memories for me. I went to school in Station Road (1948-1952) opposite the Royalty cinema. I think there was an undertakers on the corner of Station Road and the police station was nearby. In those days school dinner hour lasted two hours 12pm-2pm. Time was spent in the Library by the Junction. The Library building was a former Masonic Hall. Time was also spent usually in Summer, reading the inscriptions on the tombstones in St Peter's Church graveyard - a bit morbid, but it passed the time until we had to get back for the afternoon lessons. I also remember there used to be a horse trough directly outside the Junction which I believe is buried at the spot where it once stood. Anthea.
 
Hi Paul, Anthea, it does look like they have given the junction a bit of a face lift,Anthea i lived 2 doors away from the undertakers,the royalty is now a bingo hall,and i think the library is still there,my brother went to that school,and the police station i believe is in Rose Rd
is this your school
 
Hello Liz, Nice to see the picture of the J & I school on the High Street. I have never seen a photo of my school, which is a pity. Station Road school closed about a year after I left there and 'pupils' as we were called then were transferred to the new school in Harborne Hill. If your brother went to Station Road school he would remember Mr Stanton the Headteacher and Mr Abel his Deputy.

On the Schools and Schoolfriends section on the Forum, there are 3 threads which relate to Station Road school. There are a couple of photos which show the Head and Deputy, football team and 'pupils'.
 
anthea said:
Hello Liz, Nice to see the picture of the J & I school on the High Street. I have never seen a photo of my school, which is a pity. Station Road school closed about a year after I left there and 'pupils' as we were called then were transferred to the new school in Harborne Hill. If your brother went to Station Road school he would remember Mr Stanton the Headteacher and Mr Abel his Deputy.

On the Schools and Schoolfriends section on the Forum, there are 3 threads which relate to Station Road school. There are a couple of photos which show the Head and Deputy, football team and 'pupils'.
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Hi Anthea i think i have got this wrong then the school my brother went to was on the corner of Station Rd and Emerson Rd,and i
thought that photo was that school,
 
Liz, I think your brother went to the same Station Road school as myself and Emerson Road ran off Station Road which was the first road down from where you used to live. Your photo is of the Junior and Infant school with clocktower in High Street, the corner of York Road. So your brother may remember some of the teachers I can recall which are on my Post as I mentioned previously. Anthea.
 
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Liz, I think your brother went to the same Station Road school as myself and Emerson Road ran off Station Road which was the first road down from where you used to live. Your photo is of the Junior and Infant school with clocktower in High Street, the corner of York Road. So your brother may remember some of the teachers I can recall which are on my Post as I mentioned previously. Anthea.
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Hi Anthea my brother went to that school about 1965/66 it was an infant and junior school then, when he left there he went to Harborne Hill senior school,
 
Hi my house was the third in the row sorry Anthea i dont know what i have done i got a photo of Station Rd and posted it to show you where i lived but i seem to have lost all the photos,,,Heres the photo mines the one with the cat in the window
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In 1952 Itook a girl to the Royalty cinema,to see the film Singing in the Rain,I walked her home singing the theme song to her all the way to her house.She must have enjoyed it,she is now sat next to me,and I still sing to her.:):):)
 
hi liz /anthea
what was the name of the picture house next to the bus station behind the duke of york, my dad would take me there as a boy to see "shane", Attack, his favourite actor in those days was Jack Palance we saw all his films, and do either of you remember the posh sweet shop over the road from the swimming baths, I used to drool over their box's of chocolates on the window display.
paul
 
thanks ray I don't suppose it is still there some one told me the duke and bus station was gone so I suspect so was the the old harborne.
 
Paul,
The last time I was around there the "Old Harborne" was a factory.
But it could all be gone by now.:rolleyes:
 
hi .i had my first son in lordswood maternity home in 1965.i beleive its been demolished for some time now.ill never forget that experience. there were twin irish nurses on delivery room that night .i really thought i was hallucinating ..must have been the gas and air they shoved on you .lolxx ill always remember staff nurse foster .she was so kind....she went to bham maternity hospital years later .where i worked .i recognised her straight away......
 
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