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Hingeston Street

Nick Phillips said:
I think this is a great photo, when I was a young lad, I walked these streets many times.
It's the corner Icknield St and Hingeston St It was the route of 96 bus out of the city.
The man crossing the road is Ellen St, where the car is in the distance the white building is the Laurels pub this is crossroad of George St West to the left was Prescott St at the end of photo to the left was Clissold St.

The 96 buses would turn right on to All Saint's Rd then onto Winson Green.

Nick Phillips
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Just having another look at the photo. I wonder if some of our younger members understand what on the cafe wall (NOR 6028) stands for? It was the phone number for Cafe. NOR was Northern.
This was before Birmingham changed to 021 then it changed to 0121.
At this time very few houses would have had a land line.

And the mobile phone had not even been thought of.

Nick Phillips
 
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gizmo said:
Hi Momma p

Kathleen Dyas is not a name i have come across yet, but i only have basic info from the cencus and odd certificate i've bought when stuck. I started with only my grandfathers name as my dad was only six when Arthur his dad died. Thier had obviously been a fall out in the family as he knew nothing about any of them. Unfortunately with kids and family commitments i have only managed one trip to Birmingham to find the meaty bits so i still have a long way to go. I must confess i have moved to the other side of my family tree which is based in Worcester where i live and although a larger family i can access the history place easier here. I still like to hang around here and be nosey though. Could you tell me the names of any of the books by kathleen Dyas, it might be a good present for my dad for christmas (i never know what to get) then i can borrow it off him.:D
Thanks moma for putting me on to this.

Tracy:)
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Hi my Nan lived at 1/120 Hingeston street in the 30s and 40s sadly her 2 yr old daughter died in bed in 1933 but found out years later that her brother had murdered her
 
Hingeston Street, I've just returned from Hingeston Street with a 1995 A-Z on my lap..

In the 60's HINGESTON St, going out of the city would go from Icknield St up too All Saint's Rd.
Now at Knightston Ave the road now turns right ( in the 60's this was George St West ) the school on your right you then arrive at Pitsford St.

If you knew the area in the 60's you can still see where some of the old streets were..

Nick Phillips
 
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Nick Phillips said:
Hingeston Street, I've just returned from Hingeston Street with a 1995 A-Z on my lap..

In the 60's HINGESTON St, going out of the city would go from Icknield St up too All Saint's Rd.
Now at Knightston Ave the road now turns right ( in the 60's this was George St West ) the school on your right you then arrive at Pitsford St.

If you knew the area in the 60's you can still see where some of the old streets were..

Nick Phillips
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Just caught up with this thread and agree that photo is fantastic. Difficult to be definite but that looks like an E type Jag parked outside what from memory was a newsagents shop. We lived at 2/64 in the early fifties which from distant memory was just about where that van with the back doors open is parked. The Jag must have belonged to either a landlord collecting rent or a wealthy jeweller not wishing to park in Warstone Lane!
I remember paying pocket money each week to the newsagent who ran a "Christmas saving" scheme.
 
Nick Phillips said:
Just having another look at the photo. I wonder if some of our younger members understand what on the cafe wall (NOR 6028) stands for? It was the phone number for Cafe. NOR was Northern.
This was before Birmingham changed to 021 then it changed to 0121.
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Hi Nick,

R. Whites in Western Road, Brookfields had the number NOR 3378, - this became 554-3378.

Kind regards
Dave
 
dib44 said:
The Eagle Stores, but much earlier 1902? corner George Street West & Hingestion StreetView attachment 111003
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Thank you so much for posting this photo I’m researching my family just started. My Nan lived here in 1901. Edith May Cadby. Lived at 18 Hingeston. She immigrated to Canada in 1919. I’m trying to remember the stories she told. I’m the last in the family with memories of my Nan so I wanted to collect as much information as possible just in case my children ever show an interest in our past. Heading into my twilight years I find myself with time to look back. Again thank you for this photo. I can imagine my Nan walking by or even stopping to shop here.
 
Katelindz said:
Thank you so much for posting this photo I’m researching my family just started. My Nan lived here in 1901. Edith May Cadby. Lived at 18 Hingeston. She immigrated to Canada in 1919. I’m trying to remember the stories she told. I’m the last in the family with memories of my Nan so I wanted to collect as much information as possible just in case my children ever show an interest in our past. Heading into my twilight years I find myself with time to look back. Again thank you for this photo. I can imagine my Nan walking by or even stopping to shop here.
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hi katelindz and welcome...glad you are enjoying the photographs of hingestion st my family ran the rose and crown pub in the 1920s...hope you enjoy the forum there is much to read about the history of birmingham

lyn
 
Katelindz said:
Thank you so much for posting this photo I’m researching my family just started. My Nan lived here in 1901. Edith May Cadby. Lived at 18 Hingeston. She immigrated to Canada in 1919. I’m trying to remember the stories she told. I’m the last in the family with memories of my Nan so I wanted to collect as much information as possible just in case my children ever show an interest in our past. Heading into my twilight years I find myself with time to look back. Again thank you for this photo. I can imagine my Nan walking by or even stopping to shop here.
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Katelindz,
This is my childhood area born in Coralie St 1952 had to leave after a house fire in 1968.

I still visit the area often for a walk, in my head I can still see the area the way it was in my head I can still see the old back - houses. At the time didn't realize how many different type houses were in the area. The area had some poor family's yet it seemed others not wealthy but had more then a 10s note in back pocket.

Some of the present residents are interested in the history area.

When the filming of "Cathy come home 1966" was been done I was lucky enough to talk with team.

We need to say a "thank you" to the staff at Birmingham History Form that we are able to share with others the memories we have.

Nick Phillips
 
I’m enjoying all the stories posted here. It’s so wonderful that you have retained and shared this history. I’m looking back to the 1910-1920’s probably not many stories about that time period but I’m still interested in hearing. I keep going backwards into the thread and reading. I wish I had a family that shared their past but I think they didn’t think it was all that important at the time. Now that I’m a grand parent I see those of my grandkids who are interested and those whose eyes glaze over. I’m on Ancestry and have created our linage. I’m putting my memories and as much information as possible just in case one day they might want to read about their history. So thanks to everyone for sharing these wonderful memories.
 
kazbrad said:
Hi my Nan lived at 1/120 Hingeston street in the 30s and 40s sadly her 2 yr old daughter died in bed in 1933 but found out years later that her brother had murdered her
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That’s terrible to hear. In researching my husbands family I found he had an uncle who was 3 years old that was burned in a house fire that they never spoke about. I’m pretty amazing what gets hidden.
 
Brummie30 said:
when did you know it, my dad lived at 11, the cafe, on hingeston street do you remember it at all, my nan ran it
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Hi B my wife's family the McQuades ran the cafe from about 1948 till about 1956 she said it was a flower shop when they moved in, hope this helps
 
Astonian said:
Hi there Brummie girl
Here is a couple of photo,s of old Hingestion street hockley which was birmingham 18
this is what the houses looked like and never changed from day one of them building them
all what changed reallly is the years i had a friend whom lived about 12 houses along from your number
i think you asked for the years 1939 ,upwards well i have gone some but i have to dig out my records
from 13 years ago when i did put this on and i think it was the same number what you are requesting
but because i am exremely busy with work load i have just come out and found two pictures as a tasterto expect
the house your reie lived in would be one of those terrace houses as you see in the first picture
along side of the pub ,called the rose and crown they are all like that from one end to the other end
meaning from the bottom of the street to far as you can see at the top of the page
there is a varity of house and names of the building as you go up and down on both sides of the road
and with courts and back to back houses amongest them
As I truely know of the street and of cathy come home story that was made for TV to show the counntry of
truely familiy hardships and poor state of the houses which we all know its not just brum
you can get a book on cathy and also you can down load a copy of the film
i was living within a mile of the street at the time and i went to the local schools at that period
as i said i had many friends living close to your family one was about 12 doors along another one facing that pub
which you see the rose and crown my friends was a family of litle kids and a sister whom we all went to the steward stret school
and until one day my friends father whom never done a days work used to sit in the house sitting by the fire side
they was another poor family only a pile of wood they got to burn to keep themselves warm
could not afford coal yet the coal wharf was up the top of that street
but he always had money for his ciggies my friend mother looked after her big family the best she could they was never dirty clothing on them she kept a highly clean house under the circunstances
and never ever went out drinking in pubs she looked after and protected her kids
until one lunch time in the week he told her to nipp across and fetch him his fags to fags
and because she was gone for ages and the pub is facing the front door , he thought some think was going on between them
that being the gaffer chatting up his wife so when she dashed back over to the house he was fuming
he shouted and attacked her accusung her of an affair as he sat there next to the fire with the axe in the bucket of wood
he stood up and chopped her in the head and of corse she was instanly dead
the family being so young was put into care
the second picture you see of the shops and you can see some little premises that used to be shops
which at some point was in there ay day was little private business i presume from the early years before 1939
well the first one in line just before that first shop was another friend of mine hishouse was oneof those little shop converted by the council as i said he was about twelve doors from your relie
and your relies house was smaller and it was almost at the beginning of hingestion street
coming from the corner of Ickneld street and the mint pub was on the corner on the right hand as you turned into the street and
on the other corner was was a little tiny shop it was a grocery shop then there was a batch of little houses
and the one was an off licence in those early days of 1800s early 1900s lots of people would be selling beers to people and the public as i shoud say from there front room so it roughly one of those i will find the excact one i did 13 years ago on this forum
i will come back soon as i can with the one you want all being well
so here are the ones to give you an idea of what the stret was all about with poverty there was lots of big familys living in those tiny little house but every body looked out for each other the street was always a dark feeling to it from way back 1900S
Best wishes Astonian,,,,,,
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Hi Astonian, In that first photo, the hair dressers is my Nan's, Wynne Mason, and the shop next door was owned by my Aunt, Gwen Mason, in the 1950's and 60's. My Dad lived on this street as a young man, (Terry Mason, now passed on), until they demolished it. I've just discovered this thread after receiving photos and 8mm films that were taken by my Dad, he also made a short film showing the area before and after the demolition. I'm getting it digitised, then i'll upload to YouTube. It's pretty rough, but i'm sure interesting to those who remember the area.
 
madhu said:
Hi Astonian, In that first photo, the hair dressers is my Nan's, Wynne Mason, and the shop next door was owned by my Aunt, Gwen Mason, in the 1950's and 60's. My Dad lived on this street as a young man, (Terry Mason, now passed on), until they demolished it. I've just discovered this thread after receiving photos and 8mm films that were taken by my Dad, he also made a short film showing the area before and after the demolition. I'm getting it digitised, then i'll upload to YouTube. It's pretty rough, but i'm sure interesting to those who remember the area.
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hi madhu and welcome...would love to see watch that short film when it is ready or any photos of the old street ...many thanks

lyn
 
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