Hi Steve, the photographs are great, thank you. Would you remember the Welfare in Lancaster Street. It’s where I used to go with my mom to get baby milk (National Dried I think) for my siblings. Cod liver oil in a bottle and orange juice too. Gosh , yes there was Virol too.. Sure we had our vaccinations there.
Hi John, one of my other picture has an old style Cortina with a stripe down the side I would like to say Lotus - when I find it I will post it
As far as I can tell this shot is roughly in the right place.
I think this is about the right place
Given the distraction on the left I would be surprised if anyone noticed a pick up truck or a JCB.
Thanks for this wonderful picture Steve. I have been going 'up town' for as long as I can remember but have no memory of a Lyons Tea Shop on New Street. Also it is in a unit that was part of the 'big top' development, so named because the site on which it was built after clearance due to second world war bombs used to host a circus every year. Hard to imagine now.
I will admit that I had to look at this a number of times. I walked past this four times a day on my way to and from Hall Green, then Bilateral, School (I went home for lunch) which I attended between 1972 and 1977 and had no memory of this builder's merchant. I remember getting off the 92 bus from town that used at the stop just outside the pub on many occasions though, as we lived on Fox Hollies Road, would try to get the 32 which dropped you off opposite the church.
The last year I could find them in the phone book was 1975.
Noticed them both, JCB quite elderly actually, yet when you look at it and compare it with todays models very little has changed about the design, now of course 4 in 1 front bucket and levers compatible with a 360 slew. Running a plant training company one of the major whinges by 180 operators who came in for a test up until about 2012 was 'I'm not used to the levers that way round'.Given the distraction on the left I would be surprised if anyone noticed a pick up truck or a JCB.
Hi Janice, Sorry to be a nuisance and I may have asked the question before but do you remember a smaller J Lyons further up New Street. Opposite Woolworths. It was a smaller one.... I maybe getting confused?? Regards
Great photo. My husband used to work in the Design Office at JCB, Rocester and Uttoxeter. On the 360’s and 180’s to name a few. It is the old houses in the background that I love..... and I remember Gallagher’s.
Interesting but still prefer the view to the left.
I only vaguely remember the one in the photo but will try to do some looking up and let you know. Unless someone with a good memory beats me to it.
Thank you so much Janice. So I am not losing it. ..yet. Couldn’t remember the name of Ethel Street. We were sitting in there one night, who should go past on the 17 or 68 bus but my dad. He was on his way to his night shift at the Birmingham Post (and Mail). He gave us a wave. We moved to Markfield Road in Garretts Green in 1968. We used to live in Gopsal Street. Kind regards Sue.
Here's a Cortina 1600E I spotted a couple of years ago at Gaydon Museum.
I was not confident to say now, I realise there are people that know a bit more than me
, you could be right looks like a battleship !!
