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cant buy a cup of tea for that now though pete :rolleyes:
1.the news agents shop was it on the corner of miller.st?
2. was there a factory called perry pens on the opposite side of the rd... .Just past that was a cafe where we hung out.
anyone remembers them, or has pics. please........ My little grey cells are working over time now.
 
1.the news agents shop was it on the corner of miller.st?
2. was there a factory called perry pens on the opposite side of the rd... .Just past that was a cafe where we hung out.
anyone remembers them, or has pics. please........ My little grey cells are working over time now.
The picture that you sent down shows the newsagent on the corner of st Stevenson street with the spartan steel works on the other corner.
 
The picture that you sent down shows the newsagent on the corner of st Stevenson street with the spartan steel works on the other corner.
brilliant thanks.. i only remember a few... the drysalters, the bingo/cinema. i never went up that end much.
 
Lyn. it would be nice. to see pics of that end of n.t.r. thanks
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pete its always and idea to use the search engine to see if we have threads you are after...to save you the trouble this time we do have a long thread covering newtown row/high st some good photos on it...here is the link but start reading from post 1


 
thought i would put this pic on. its taken in new john st west Newtown 1967. on the right you can just see the old houses are still up. maybe someone will recognize these three lads. wales
shame they have gone..have you stii got them lyn?
 
Well I would of dreaded playing football at that park it was all concrete ground only a couple of patches of grass but of course there was no mambie pambie safety rules them days also that big train that we all climbed there if anyone did fall off I'm sure they would of been badly hurt so I was one of the lucky ones that did not fall off.I also remember the small sweet shop on the corner of Ashford street it was only small I think it was one house turned into a shop it had a few steps up to the entrance and sold just sweets and frozen treats and drinks .
 
pete i think i still have that missing photo..will post it when i find it but have you seen my post 96 leading you to another thread?

lyn
 
great mike thanks for the map...will see if i have a photo of this pub but from memory i dont..mind you the old memory is not what it was

lyn
 
The Chip was next to Harts...used it quite regular with my mates after a game of football on Blew Street Park.....There was a pub across the way, and I do think it was listed, but the buggers knocked it down....I cannot think of the name ...The Sportsman doesn't ring any bells for me...
The " buggers knocked it down " thank you a real expression from my youth made me chuckle and my eyes water.
 
I remember a Sportsman pub on Summer Lane, is it the same one?
Dave A

hi dave hope you are well.. post 105 shows a pic of the sportsman corner of newtown row/moorsom st..

far as i know there was no pub of that name on summer lane...check out the below thread which shows a map of all the pubs on summer lane which photos in the 60s...

lyn
 
Pete,

Re: your post #91, Perry Pens was at 36 Lancaster Street on the right hand side going out of town. My father worked there from 1918 until the day before he died in 1952,. Not sure when my mother started there, but it would be in the early 1920s and she left in around October 1935. In all, 8 members of my mother's LONGMORE family, including several great aunts, worked there at one time or another, and they employed a total of 2,000 people at the height of thier operations in late Victorian times. They were then the largest manufacturers of steel pen nibs in the world sending millions to the States every year. The pens side of the business was bought out by British Pens Ltd in 1960 and the premises were demolished around 1962. It occupied the whole of the block between Brick Kiln Street and Lawson Street (formerly York Street I believe), as shown on this map supplied by Mike some years ago. Across the back ran Staniforth Street.

Maurice :cool:

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Pete,

Re: your post #91, Perry Pens was at 36 Lancaster Street on the right hand side going out of town. My father worked there from 1918 until the day before he died in 1952,. Not sure when my mother started there, but it would be in the early 1920s and she left in around October 1935. In all, 8 members of my mother's LONGMORE family, including several great aunts, worked there at one time or another, and they employed a total of 2,000 people at the height of thier operations in late Victorian times. They were then the largest manufacturers of steel pen nibs in the world sending millions to the States every year. The pens side of the business was bought out by British Pens Ltd in 1960 and the premises were demolished around 1962. It occupied the whole of the block between Brick Kiln Street and Lawson Street (formerly York Street I believe), as shown on this map supplied by Mike some years ago. Across the back ran Staniforth Street.

Maurice :cool:

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brill.thanks for the reply.maurice
 
well they may have knocked it down but here is a pic of it...

lyn

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Lyn I cannot believe you found this photo of a pub which no one remembered and was knocked down years ago you must have a magical wand that you wave and your photos appear no wonder you are called moderators you for photos and Mike for maps.You should all be called wizards ha ha!
 
hi dave hope you are well.. post 105 shows a pic of the sportsman corner of newtown row/moorsom st..

far as i know there was no pub of that name on summer lane...check out the below thread which shows a map of all the pubs on summer lane which photos in the 60s...

lyn
Thanks for the update Lyn, I guess that age is finally taking it's toll on my memory. On another topic/s...I found a picture of me & my mini, outside Moseley School of Art on Lime Grove. My question is, what would be the appropriate topic as the Moseley Rd baths are also visible in the background.
Dave A
 

:D now theres a question dave....i guess you could post it either on the moseley school of art thread or the moseley baths thread i shall leave it up to you...be good to see it..think we have threads for both...

lyn
 
:D now theres a question dave....i guess you could post it either on the moseley school of art thread or the moseley baths thread i shall leave it up to you...be good to see it..think we have threads for both...

lyn
Thanks for the input Lyn...I just wish that the quality of the photos were as good as what you post.
Dave A
 
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