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Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Does anyone now when the ORIGINAL Ring O’Bells in Church Road, Yardley, was built? In it’s blurbs, the Yardley Conservation site claims that the original (presumably the one before this one) was opposite St Edburgh's Church, where the Cottagers Institute is now …Now nowhere in any published history books, or maps of the area, is there any reference to this…I know there was a Ring O’Bells cottages and Inn opposite St Giles Church in Church Road, SHELDON….and maybe this is the root cause of the claim about Yardley? Mistaken identity? I would dearly like to know, as I have a fiver on it with the Church warden lady opposite me! I have written to the YCS, but so far they have blanked me....
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Dennis
I have never come across any definite mention of a Ring o Bells opposite St Edburgh's, though I do remember reading somewhere that mentions 3 different Ring o Bells being built. I can't remember where I read it and there was nothing more than that. I'll see if I can trace it back to one of my books.
I have never come across any definite mention of a Ring o Bells opposite St Edburgh's, though I do remember reading somewhere that mentions 3 different Ring o Bells being built. I can't remember where I read it and there was nothing more than that. I'll see if I can trace it back to one of my books.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Dennis
I suppose you do know the Yardley Conservation Society mention the first Ring o Bells and it's location?
https://www.yardleyconservationsociety.co.uk/Conservation Area.html
I suppose you do know the Yardley Conservation Society mention the first Ring o Bells and it's location?
https://www.yardleyconservationsociety.co.uk/Conservation Area.html
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Yes, and I mentioned them in my first post....but since then....I found this....I am undone! My cup runneth under....Mike Byrne, the Acocks Green Librarian, and book author of "Yardley"....has this in his book...and I'm not arguing with HIM!!! I will pay up and look big, as my nan always maintained...
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
My Dearest Northfield....I am a ditz and a bounder....and I would like to apologise profusely for my abruptness....if anyone should ask you again for proof..ever......show them this.....the Tithe map of Yardley dated 1843...and note where the Cottagers Institute was...no 468 I reckon....then check this against the list of owners...and 468 is listed as "BEER HOUSE AND GARDENS".....the original Ringers opposite St Edburgh's...I found this myself, so cannot even blame Phil or mike, which I usually do....I am wearing the requisite sackcloth and ashes......sorry mate.....I am STILL learning......
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Thought it was!! Brilliant...
paul stacey
master brummie
Great pies, at Alex's stand though. Paul
I'm concluding that Etam/Alberta's is to the right on the third photo of one of D.J.Norton's crop of very recent photos
https://www.photobydjnorton.com/NewBham/NewBham29.html
or is the Etam photo of Martineau Street to the left of the John Collier store?
NORTHFIELD
master brummie
Hi Dennis Williams, (Re the Yardley Ring O Bells)
No worries. Sorry I am slow to reply, but I don't seem to have much time to come on here at the moment.
No worries. Sorry I am slow to reply, but I don't seem to have much time to come on here at the moment.
devonjim
master brummie
HELP! Not being a proper history buff having wonderful collections of old maps and photographs I merely rely on memory, which is usually pretty good. In a recent post of Carrs Lane there was clearly a picture of "The Firebird" coffee bar circa 1960. This has thrown doubt on what was a vivid memory, I used to go to The Firebird but I remember it being overlooking a "green" at the rear of Carrs Lane church (New Meeting St. perhaps?).
john knight
signman
I did the sign for the Firebird for Andre Drucker, his first place was in Aston Street.
john knight
signman
That's the sign I did,cut-out sundeala letters.
A Sparks
master brummie
There is a bit of a green space behind Carrs Lane Church now but how long it's been there or whether it is a space where they more recently demolished a building I don't know.
DavidGrain
master brummie
There was a green space by Cars Lane Church as long ago as the 1970s but I cannot say how long before that
DavidGrain
master brummie
I spent one term attending lectures in that large red brick building when it was still Birmingham University. All I can remember of it is one stairwell where it looked as if any broken furniture was just thrown down it. And yes devonjim, if the steps had been there before, the Edmund Street buses would have fallen down them.
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
What I do remember is the terminus, with the trams arriving and turning in a circle, before returning to the City, and the lovely tram shelter, that followed the tram lines circle. Like a smaller version of the lovely old Lickey Hills terminus. I commenced school at Acocks Green Infant School in 1937. It was a lovely village. Thanks for the photo, Jim.
Eddie
