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However, just to clarify ... it was being run as a pub/hotel before M&B bought it.
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I too played a bit of snooker both at parkinson cowans and flaxley snooker hall. also worked at parkies and leviss air compressors between 1985 and 1988
Petes cafe...played pool there as a teenager 79-83
I remember the old bridge before it fell down. A single lane brick built bridge that was slightly arched. One day it was there. A storm overnight - and it was gone!
Slightly earlier but, looking towards their retirement [a few years henceforth], my parents bought a house opposite the North Star. A three floor building.
My Father then 'tasked' me with the job of re-wiring it. Gulp! I was only about 16 at the time and had previously only 'played' with bits of Electrickery. Fortunately, perhaps, my older sister had married an Electrical Engineer, so I had advice [as to cable specs, etc] at the end of a phone. Although, I don't remember that we had a phone. It must have been 'advice' from a phone box.
Not only was it a rewire but, two bedrooms were destined to be bed-sits, with their own [private] meter and Comsumer Unit, providing lighting, sockets, and a two-ring cooking 'contraption'. I was presented with two meters and told to wire the rooms separately. Socket/Switch 'back boxes' had to be chiselled out by hand. Electric drills, of that period, although present, didn't have 'hammer action'.
My Father, then decided, that in the 'residential' area [of the house], to have fitted a Solid Fuel burner, to provide hot water and supply heating to radiators [to be fitted] in all of the rooms. Guess what. I then needed to become a proficient Plumber also!
How many can remember the 'Floor Board saw' of that era? Placing one's knee in the 'cup' of the implement and then pulling the handle which rotated the blade about 90 degrees. A single cut could take an hour. And there wasn't a 'left-handed version'
. Nowadays, such are electrically driven and provide a Laser line.Having been past there since, despite my inadequacies, the premises is still standing. So I can't have done much wrong.
Kids today!...............
Hi Pete,
Am I remembering correctly that she lived in the block on the corner
of Yardley Fields Road by Doctor Masters?
Kind regards
Dave
DavidBrown
proper brummie kid
Here's a picture of Albert Road showing the houses just south of All Saints Church; the picture was taken about 1888 before the church was built; you can see the sloping roof of the chapel that was there before the church. My grandparents lived in the smallest one, next to the church, from 1894 until about 1900.
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DavidBrown
proper brummie kid
Typical parade of shops in Station Road Stetchford, nice selection of shops. Like the weighing scales outside G B Palmer shop/Post Office. It had handles and steps. Viv.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
I remember the paper shop/po
Hi,
I remember this row of shops very well, from Joyner's cake shop on the left
to Aston's the butcher at the far right on the corner of Lyndon Road.
Aston's door was on the corner, and when he had a new delivery of carcases,
he fitted large hooks into slots in the sides of the doorway, hung them up, and then
chopped them down the back until the 2 halves were separated. I used to watch
this completely fascinated! This would have been in the 1950s,. and I also remember
that he had a candlestick phone in the shop, the only one I remember seeing in use.
Kind regards
Dave
I remember this row of shops very well, from Joyner's cake shop on the left
to Aston's the butcher at the far right on the corner of Lyndon Road.
Aston's door was on the corner, and when he had a new delivery of carcases,
he fitted large hooks into slots in the sides of the doorway, hung them up, and then
chopped them down the back until the 2 halves were separated. I used to watch
this completely fascinated! This would have been in the 1950s,. and I also remember
that he had a candlestick phone in the shop, the only one I remember seeing in use.
Kind regards
Dave
FlaxleyGirl
knowlegable brummie
I think I remember the butchers. It used to have wood shavings on the floor and that characteristic smell - and I seem to remember doors on the floor outside of it that probably went to a cellar? Or am I making that up ha ha!
I have a distinct memory of thinking about Davey Jones from the Monkees when I was outside of it - would they have played music in there I wonder? Or could it have been called Jones at one time?
(In the 60s)
FlaxleyGirl
knowlegable brummie
I used to buy sweets on the way home from school there and 6d savings stamps - which I still have. I think I managed to save 1s 6d. I wonder what they're worth now ha ha!
FlaxleyGirl
knowlegable brummie
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
ER Allen
master brummie
OK, nobody mention Fred Astair, Ginger Rogers or Gene Kelly on the forum
