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Perry Barr Shopping Precinct 1960-9, Lynton Sq

Yes, I remember it being quite a nice shop with great food. Did she and your family stop trading when they demolished the site?
 
Embryo Records said:
It was right next to the sandwich shop. Very busy.
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I certainly remember the little record shop - I think it was at the front of the office block on the right hand side looking at the building?
Were you the same people who ran the little record shop that used to be in the block of shops along side the entrance to Perry Barr station?
 
A Sparks said:
I certainly remember the little record shop - I think it was at the front of the office block on the right hand side looking at the building?
Were you the same people who ran the little record shop that used to be in the block of shops along side the entrance to Perry Barr station?
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Yes it was right at the front opposite the flyover. To the left was the petshop, and finefare at the back. Small and bloody freezing in winter lol. No we only owned the one shop.
 
Morturn said:
Yes, I remember it being quite a nice shop with great food. Did she and your family stop trading when they demolished the site?
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Yes. They offered us a shop in One Stop but after 5 years my brother had had enough. Compact disks were coming into fashion and the good old days of vinyl were going. Everybody came into the shop on their lunch break. It was a fantastic community. I really miss it.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Do you have any photos Embryo? I’m sure members would love to see them if you want to share. Viv.
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Thats the saddest bit. I have none. We werent a camera family. Probably a good thing as i was a New Romantic it would be embarrassing now. Ive looked here for any photos of the front shops but alas none as well. Its like it never happened. You dont know what youve lost till its gone as they say.
 
I think there is a photo of the shop in one of Alton Douglas's look back books, All mine are in the loft and I cannot off my fatty to search, maybe later in the year ...
 
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hi embryo i am a great believer in if you can find what you are looking for under the obvious title in this case..perry barr shopping centre then try searching similar ie just perry barr same thing goes if you are trying to find a photo of a house in say smith st but nothing doing so find out if there was a pub a few doors away and search for that pub as a photo of it may just show the house you are looking for.. ..just done this and i have these two photos which came under perry barr not ..hope they are of interest

lyn

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Could’ve been on that bus Lyn the amount of times I used it. I’d be the one having a fag top deck. Always a tricky manoeuvre on that sweep to go under the underpass. Felt even worse upstairs. Every time I went round there I thought of a photo I’d seen of a test to see how far a bus would tilt before tipping over. Not sure it put my mind at rest though. Viv.
 
i also would have been whizzing around there at the same time as you viv although it would have been on the no 59 which when down booths farm road...no longer goes down there now

lyn
 
Astoness said:
hi embryo i am a great believer in if you can find what you are looking for under the obvious title in this case..perry barr shopping centre then try searching similar ie just perry barr same thing goes if you are trying to find a photo of a house in say smith st but nothing doing so find out if there was a pub a few doors away and search for that pub as a photo of it may just show the house you are looking for.. ..just done this and i have these two photos which came under perry barr not ..hope they are of interest

lyn

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Now these seem very familiar. Just as i remembred. Thats the side with the petshop and Finefare,. The butchers was on the other side. Dang it why didnt i take any photos!!!
 
I remember the record shop & it was called "Just Tapes" as I recall it, & it was right at the front & you could see it from the bus.
An old mate of mine owned a clothes shop in the precinct .......can't remember the name of it though......be about 1979 I think.
 
Tates said:
I remember the record shop & it was called "Just Tapes" as I recall it, & it was right at the front & you could see it from the bus.
An old mate of mine owned a clothes shop in the precinct .......can't remember the name of it though......be about 1979 I think.
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We bought it in the early 80's and renamed it.
 
And I was one of them.
I only stopped using the shop when the country went into decline at that time. I was made redundant and suddenly the store was no longer in my catchment area.

I think it was before you took it over.
Where are you located if you don't mind me asking?

Most members are probably asleep right now; here it is 12:44 pm.
I thought it was aptly named because they wouldn't have had much room for anything else.
 
The only jewellery mentioned in the thread below was in Fames ... probably not expensive items ...

Perry Barr Shopping Precinct 1960-9, Lynton Sq

just read debbies post about the shops on birchfield road i've been trying to find some photo's of the old lynton square shopping centre but to no avail my mom worked in fames store in the 70's in the decorator centre anybody help ??
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Post #83 has been moved to this thread. Thanks OM for finding an existing thread about Lynton Square. Viv.
 
mitchell said:
Hi i remember caretaker at perry barr precinct charlie lived on top floor always tobe found cleaning up green overalls.mitchell
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Charlie was a good man,a Irish fella with a hump back. When I was a kid, he would pay me a couple of bob for killing the rats in the car park.which would be spent in the Odeon on a Saturday morning. Happy days
 
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My mum worked in the large store think it was Fames. I was 10 but remember it and the video really brings back some memories.
 
Nickhistory said:
I was actually there, when the shopping precinct was opened. I was with my mother, because I was only about 8. I remember 'Minnie Caldwell' cutting the ribbon. The photos are very grainy. but I am pretty sure that I can see us in one of them.
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In the early 70’s I remember being in Fine Fare one Saturday morning when there was a “guest appearance” by Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner of Coronation Street). She was escorted around the store (Fine Fare I think) – walk about style. It must have been ’72 or ’73 as my elder daughter was a toddler at the time.
 
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