Francis Road is one of the few roads in that area that is still nice Angela. Hardly changed since the 40s and 50s when I walked down it to school every day...
Morning Dennis, I Did`nt want to identify where in Albert Rd my Sister lives, will send you an IM. Len.Hi Len mate. Nice place?!! I should cocoa. Your sister must have been minted. That was THE area to live in those days. Rotten posh we called them beautiful old Houses in Victoria and Frederick Roads. You can see similar houses in the First picture here. I probably sang carols to her from all Saints Church Choir in the early 50s...we used to go around various big houses to sing and get a cup of tea or a few sweets...lovely memories. From that experience I vowed I wanted to live in a big Victorian house, and it only took another 30 years to achieve it. Love it.
I agree Dennis, Francis Road is still nice. I had forgotten how wide and attractive the road is until I re-visited it a year or two back.
My family moved there in 1962, we used to come and see our house (No. 7) being built and it was so modern and exciting. We moved from an old terrace in Bordesley with just an outside loo so we thought our new house was really posh with a bathroom!
Whereabouts did you live then? What was it like at the Morden Road end before the houses went up in the sixties, do you remember?
Angela
Morning Dennis, I Did`nt want to identify where in Albert Rd my Sister lives, will send you an IM. Len.
hi.i used the north star.i am not seedy.at least i dont think i am.
Hi dennis
wow, many thanks den for those cracking pictures i spent a small fortune in that old off licence younow
yes that is the club oppersite the station where all the police used an old friend of mine another gather of the pub oppersite the acocks green police station used to have them in his back room after hours drinking all hours
and if i remember correctly there was an ex copper bought the yardley arms years ago if i am correct
the big pub i was trying to think of in my last thread down the rd was the big mannor house a true grit gun slingers pub
that was a crash helmet ha
Hi dennis
when we was kids we used to that take the empty milk bottles of peoples front step of there house before the milk man came
and nipp into the shop to get the penny returns
in the late sixtys and during the next ten years the worst rd to live was lindon rd which runs around the side of the
coop bakery the tennants was rough and hooligans and they terroised the neibour hood
every house had big familys from young to the older lads even there parents were rough
all of mannor rd formed a petion on these familys in lindon rd and went to the council to get there act cleaned up
in the end the council did publish this in the evening mail about the state of the rd and its tennants they disgraced them all
and then the council said enough is a enough and they staryted to evic them one by one and moved them and dispersed them to all over brum
we lived in mannor rd at the time i used to run a youth team for the kids after school on the park in those days
when of course i was younger but i would not do it now the kids are a different breed
have a nice day den speak again soon astonion
Hired The Bulls Head aka The Manor House for my wedding reception circa 1956 a very well run pub at that time, had to go to court with the pub boss to support the application for an 11m extension. Len.