Lozells

[Rosebury]

In the sixties there used to be a couple of coffee bars not far from lozells ,on the Soho road. they were the Alzona and the Riviera. Does any one remember them?

 

[Vivienne14]

This old postcard of a painting (looking back to Lozells Road in the 1850s) has been posted a number of times on the Forum including the colour version in post #405. In this article it claims to be the work of W.Laurence. Here is a comparison source: Birmingham Post, British Newspaper Archive.

Viv

 

[irene floyd]

Lyn.
YOU MENTION ABOUT SCALING WALLS, WHEN I LIVED IN CLIIFORD THERE WAS AN AVENUE OPP OUR HOUSE CALLED CARLTON AVE AND IF I NEEDED TO GO UP LOZELLS ST TO THE SHOP ON THE CORNER OF LOZELLS STAND GERRARD ST IT WAS A GRAT SHORT CUT. UP THE AVE OVER THE WALL DONE; TOP OF TH HILL ALMOST. NO WONDER MY LEGS ARE FULL OF SCARS.

That's where my Nan & Grandad lived the top end of Carlton Avenue the end house on the left they had chickens in the garden x

 

[irene floyd]

HI Topsy me again i do keep popping up on your blogs u say u worked at cheneys did you know fred hatten or christine hatten i think most of thier family worked there,

 

[hindlip]

Hi Lyn. We lived in a courtyard at the bottom of the alley at the side of the Bridge Tavern, it was about a 100yds down from Hunters Rd. At the very bottom of the alley was a place that cleaned beer barrels, they were called Savilles, next to them was a place that made gravestones, they were called Taronis.

If you stood at the corner of Hunters Rd and Farm St, the Bridge Tavern was on he righthand side.

 

[Job Handley]

G'd morning Lyn,
The Benyon,was the headquarters of Birminghams own Shamrock Rovers,a very succesful football club.
The last time I was there c1962,there was a "redundancy Party" going on,and no one would leave at closing time,the gaffer said,his relief hadn't arrived,and he was going on holiday,so he said he would take the keys of the pub, to Kenyon St. police station,and let them to sort it out.

Just out of sheer curiosity, do you have any idea what happened after he took the keys to the coppers? Did he manage to get to his holiday?

 

[alanl1]

Here we have the Old Farm Lozells on a 1918 postcard. Painted by W. Green, it says on the pc that it's a view of the farm in the 1850s and that by 1918 it was the site of a grocer, Mr. Adams. Hard to believe this view today, but a little historical addition to this thread. Will see if I can find out when the farm was demolished (obviously sometime before 1918). Viv.

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I have a copy of the same postcard dating from June 1906 (according to the postmark and KEVII stamp). It was obviously a popular design!

 

[Ray Griffiths]

OView attachment 89752 The bread making plant

Is Hardings bakery