Moseley Village

[Phil]

Lyn

It has changed in many subtle ways over the years especially if you go back to the 1870's in the first photo and the second one has to be earlier than that.

 

[Morturn]

Lyn, please do. Come and have a coffee with me in one of the amazing coffee shops in Moseley. The big change is the mess Boots have made of their shop frontage, absolute disgrace for a corporate company.

 

[Astoness]

thanks mike phil and mort...i really must have a good look around the village when time permits....

 

[Phil]

Lyn

You should try the last Saturday of the month when they have the farmers market, it can be pretty lively, though I think this month it is the Moseley Festival at the same time so it should be even livelier.

 

[Malc Toy]

I think these have been on the forum somewhere previously

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I used to be an angelic choirboy at St Mary’s in the mid/late 1950’s attending St Mary’s primary school in School Road. We used to eat sweets and read comics during the sermon.
Seem to remember a Canon Cribb was the incumbent.

 

[mw0njm.]

Memories of Moseley, though, as she says, "nostalgia is bollocks:

Nostalgia is bollocks: but in 1970s Moseley, I never felt like an outsider | Kit de Waal

If you’re mixed-race it can be difficult to feel at home. But my Birmingham suburb was genuinely multicultural, says author Kit de Waal

www.theguardian.com

just becouse they say words like that in the media,you dont have to repeat them on this forum, kids and family view this forum

 

[ellbrown]

Brumpic on Twitter of a photo by David Rostance, dated 1985

https://twitter.com/x/status/1173187902467186688

 

[Pedrocut]

Moseley Motor Works

 

[farmerdave]

There was a programme on BBC1 this afternoon called "The Farmers Country Showdown". It started at 3-45 pm and featured the market at Moseley Village together with a small amount of filming at the swimming baths. It is currently on iPlayer and you need to look from about 25 minutes into the programme. Dave

 

[devonjim]

There was a programme on BBC1 this afternoon called "The Farmers Country Showdown". It started at 3-45 pm and featured the market at Moseley Village together with a small amount of filming at the swimming baths. It is currently on iPlayer and you need to look from about 25 minutes into the programme. Dave

Thanks for the tipoff, it was well worth the watch.

 

[Vivienne14]

Clearing snow 1930s-style. Viv.

 

[mikejee]

Don't think I've ever seen a photo of a horse snowplough before

 

[Vivienne14]

Moseley Church In 1909. Viv.

 

[pjmburns]

A "bit" more traffic today and the church gate seems to have become a lych gate.

 

[Pedrocut]

January 1977, Birmingham Post.

Stitcher, picture from 1875, Post in thread 'Pubs Of The Past'

Pubs Of The Past

Thank you so much Phil, a great pic, the only one I found was of it all boarded up. Which I didn't want at all, I wanted to see it while it was still a pub! I found a website dedicated to closed up pubs. Quite sad really, I wonder why so many have gone? I found out the other day the pub at the...

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Midpubs…Post in thread 'Pub Quiz League'

Pub Quiz League

Exactly that - I just couldn't locate a 'lane' but should have got it really as that pub is on Soho Road, my area of growing up lol. That said I only knew it as it is now.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[Vivienne14]

A lovely busy scene at St Mary’s Row. Viv.

 

[A Sparks]

One of the pubs in Keiron's pub quiz!

 

[superdad3]

I've attached this village photograph for all sorts of reasons. I think it may be late 1950s. Perhaps someone could date it more accurately?

Subsequent changes etc include:
1. Original frontage on Boots the Chemist before they "vandalised" it with the present modern frontage. Boots now closed.
2. Slip road off main road to Wake Green Road still two way.
3. Classic BCC bus shelter with safety rail on road side and classic BCC cast iron bus stop. Granite sets in front of bus stop.
4. Underground toilets still in use. Lasted much longer than modern pay toilet which has now gone.
5. Building on extreme right was Barclays Bank - now Costa Coffee.
6. Building next to Barclays shows two ghost signs on end wall. The lower one advertises Mathias Watts, Picture Framers & Fine Art Dealers on the end of their shop. Of course it wasn't a ghost sign at the time - they were still there until at least the 1970s. Perhaps later? The other sign is for Avonvale Bread/Head Office/Orders...... Anyone have any information about them as I have never heard of them? [I do miss access to Birmingham directories on Ancestry!]
7. Compare the tall cast iron lamp standard with modern replacements!

Additional comments very welcome. After all there are folks on the forum who have lived here in Moseley all their lives. Mind you I have clocked up 53 years and still running.

Apols see next post for phot!

 

[superdad3]

Whoops, forgot to attach photograph for above post.
Apols.

 

[pjmburns]

I have had a look for Avonvale in phone books in 1950s but no joy. I wonder if it was just advertising the product rather than being Birmingham based. Will see what I can find out.
There is a modern company called AvonVale Foods but I don't think there is a connection.

 

[Vivienne14]

There was an Avonvale cycle maker. Could it be advertising bikes ? Although it looks like “Avonvale Bre......” to me. Viv.

 

[pjmburns]

Agree and underneath it looks like "Head Off....."

 

[mikejee]

Avonvale Bakeries are listed in the name section of Kellys for 1915 and 1921 at 14 Clevedon road. However in earlier editions, the street listing shows no 14 as Barclay & Price (Avondale Bakeries). Neither the firm or the shop are listed in the 1932 edition

 

[pjmburns]

Thank Mike - I hadn't got that far back. So it was a ghost sign in that photo then.

 

[Vivienne14]

So must be Avonvale Bread in the advert. Viv

 

[superdad3]

Avonvale Bakeries are listed in the name section of Kellys for 1915 and 1921 at 14 Clevedon road. However in earlier editions, the street listing shows no 14 as Barclay & Price (Avondale Bakeries). Neither the firm or the shop are listed in the 1932 edition

Many thanks for that. Clevedon Rd is not far away in Balsall Heath which would make sense. Looks like original buildings all demolished & area redeveloped.

 

[pjmburns]

On 1950s map no 14 is marked on the corner where the red marker is. This map is about 1916

 

[mikejee]

No 14 was one of those that were bombed in WW2. Below is the c1954 map. looking at a photo after the bombing, I believe the remains of no 14 would have been the building on the far right which sticks out

 

[boringmike]

Still sometimes referred to as the "Village", the second postcard image is labelled 'village' but looks far bigger than a village. Obviously it had become a busy bustling centre with all the necessary shops and services looking at the first 1913 image. Wonder what was originally the extent of the village ? Any images of the early village anywhere ? Viv.

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Hi. Park Garage later became R.E. GREENS a Rootes dealership and Garners also opened later on the opposite side about 100 yds towards the city and became, I believe, part of the Lincoln Street group and a Datsun dealership.

 

[Dennis Williams]

A bit about ELMHURST in Moseley Village......a big posh house I believe.....but so far, no photograph has emerged....? anyone got one? Was where the old Meteor Garage was....now a Marks&Spencer outlet....