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LOZELLIAN said:
Hi Carolyn,

Whereabouts in Villa Road was McGaulies? I can't seem to picture it at the moment. I was a paper boy for Colletts newsagents next door to Baines (corner of villa Road / Hunters Road) & a couple of doors down from the Chicken Inn chippie. My cousin worked in a gents fashion shop (double fronted place) just below Barker Street. I also did a Saturday job at Wrensons on Villa Road as a delivery boy riding a very heavy bicycle especially when the basket on the front was fully laden with produce ha ha.

Lozellian.
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Hi Carolyn,

Just an update from my last reply to your post, age may have addled my brain somewhat; I got it wrong my Saturday job was actually for George Masons and not Wrensons doh.

Lozellian.
 
Edifi said:
Lyn just going through the photos .Came across No84 Yardley Church.My friend lived in the house on the Left in1960 .His father Vic Saunders lived up the yard just past the bend were the Blacksmiths shop just sticks out.Great photo brings back memories.
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Please could anyone tell me which post the pic of No84 is in? There are lots of posts in this thread, I have had a quick look, but as I haven't seen a pic of my families blacksmith forge I am interested to see this pic.
 
Phil said:
I remember Trippas Bakery on the corner of Ladypool Road, they baked wonderful bread, I always called in for a large cottage loaf when I was down the Lane. They tell me the cakes were great as well but never being a cake eater I wouldn't know personally, but I'm sure they were.
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My mom worked at the bakery early morning, used to call in on my way to school for a piece of bread pudding.
 
This was on Twitter, posted by Birmingham Museum Images. It's Bordesley Green with the tram going to High Street. My husband thinks the roads to either side are Blake Lane and Churchill Road.BG.jpg
 
safe_image (3).jpgDoing a Google street view from my old home on Moat Lane Yardley I went down the street to Bilton Grange Road and Charlbury Cresent, to where my dear Mom went shopping every day. The grocers, butchers even a sweets shop, Of course with progress I should have expected this, BUT all the shops now are gone, now houses? anyone have a photos of how it was?
 
oldbrit said:
View attachment 140180Doing a Google street view from my old home on Moat Lane Yardley I went down the street to Bilton Grange Road and Charlbury Cresent, to where my dear Mom went shopping every day. The grocers, butchers even a sweets shop, Of course with progress I should have expected this, BUT all the shops now are gone, now houses? anyone have a photos of how it was?
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Where my mom used to go to the post office to collect the family allowance.
 
Maria Magenta said:
This was on Twitter, posted by Birmingham Museum Images. It's Bordesley Green with the tram going to High Street. My husband thinks the roads to either side are Blake Lane and Churchill Road.View attachment 140179
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This picture was posted (372) in 2013 on the Bordesley Green thread, without comment. The post card, posted by someone in Churchill Road, is said to be around 1912 but the tram route box suggests after 1915. Route 11 was High Street to Blake Lane which is where the tram in the photo is terminating. In 1928 it was extended as the 90 to Stechford, becoming bus route 53 in 1948. Apparently the corner shop of J.R.Burn was a tobacconists,
 
Lumpammer said:
Pool Way Post Office opened in 1961. It’s not there now, the grounds all flat, and below it is the man in a bowler hat. My mum had to go to Lea Village P.O. for Family Allowance etc.before that. I think until that time the Post Code was B26a, then became B33 after the opening.
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Wasn't there a post office among the temporary shops that were built on the edge of the park before the main shopping centre was built. We lived in Garretts Green which was "B'ham 33" well before the days of postcodes.
 
devonjim said:
Wasn't there a post office among the temporary shops that were built on the edge of the park before the main shopping centre was built. We lived in Garretts Green which was "B'ham 33" well before the days of postcodes.
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I don’t think so. My mum wouldn’t have walked all the way to Lea Village if there had been a PO “over the fields” as we used to say.
 
waswigg said:
can remember my mom having curlers under her head scarf and that make me really smile only buried mom Monday she was 92 had 12 kids and loads of grand kids every one loved mom she was an angel in disguise
waswigg
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Sorry to hear that. But sounds like she had a good, long life. They were a strong generation. Life’s never the same without your mom and dad though!!
 
michaelwicks54 said:
My deepest condolences to you & your family waswigg. I lost my mum 12 years ago & still miss her, though it does get a little easier. You will be forever in my prayers.
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I lost my mom 6 years ago and I miss her every day. I m always thinking of the funny things she used to say, in fact I’ve started to say them myself ! She’s always in my heart.
 
Some beautiful, personal recollections here. My mother went out of my life 80 years ago, although I do think of her. However, I have better memories of my late mother-in-law, a lovely person who kept her thoughts to herself and never interfered. I had the pleasure of knowing her for nearly forty years and much of the acumen my wife possesses was gained from her.
 
Radiorails said:
Some beautiful, personal recollections here. My mother went out of my life 80 years ago, although I do think of her. However, I have better memories of my late mother-in-law, a lovely person who kept her thoughts to herself and never interfered. I had the pleasure of knowing her for nearly forty years and much of the acumen my wife possesses was gained from her.
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That’s so nice to hear Radiorails, as very often Mothers-in-law are the butt of all sorts of jokes aren’t they ? I hope my sons’ future wives will have such lovely memories of me!!
 
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