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nickcc101

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Hello jennyann

Reading about the Plaza on Stockland Green can you tell me where abouts it was located in relation to Stockland Garage ? I worked for Stocklands for over 4 years back in the middle sixties and can't remember ever seeing the Plaza, can remember the pub next door where many of our drivers spent their spare time but that's another story :)
 
The Plaza was on the corner of Marsh Lane and Streetly Road, directly opposite the pub.

Stockland Garage now a Kwik Fit Tyre centre.
 
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Right on Alberta. The Plaza Cinema opened in 1928.(There is a photo on this site: https://www.smallheathcircle.co.uk/brum-cinemas.html
This site has black and white photos of all the Birmingham cinemas we all remember.

niccc101,did you work for the McLoughlans? They owned the Stockland Garage for many years, father and brothers. The Stockland Inn was right next door and is now operating as a Chinese restaurant called "Modern China".
Over the years Stockland Green has changed and is a very busy traffic interchange these days.
 
Yes I worked for Mr John and Mr Ian, when I started as a PSV mechanic in 1964 they both lived in the houses next door to the garage, still can't for the life of me remember the Plaza must be an age thing. Many happy memmories of Stocklands just a shame Bowens bought them out. Rarely saw Mr Irony (spelling) as he had retired before I started.
 
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QUOTE=nickcc101;487926]Yes I worked for Mr John and Mr Ian, when I started as a PSV mechanic in 1964 they both lived in the houses next door to the garage, still can't for the life of me remember the Plaza must be an age thing. Many happy memmories of Stocklands just a shame Bowens bought them out. Rarely saw Mr Irony (spelling) as he had retired before I started.[/QUOTE]
 
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Thanks Ray but still can't remember the Plaza. Remember the paper shop opposite Stocklands on Marsh lane and all the aggro we got when we closed the garage entrance once a year so it wasn't classed as a right of way, seems strange when you could walk a few yards up the road and not have to walk through the garage.
 
The newsagents was Patterson's. My brother had a paper route for them in the l950's. We bought all our papers from Patterson's and I often wsent in to "pay the papers". Patterson's totally rebuilt the front of the building before they opened the shop. They bought two houses and converted them into the shop. Today, you can still see the new brickwork on the front of the shop. They sold toys,stationery, sweets, etc. It was a very nice shop. I used to do my brothers paper rounds when he was ill or late coming from KE Five Ways. He delivered twice a day. The route was off Streetly Road behind the Plaza Cinema.
 
Can't even make a guess at where this is in Stockland Green. Viv.
 

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Can't even make a guess at where this is in Stockland Green. Viv.
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Vivienne

What I know about trams you could write on the back of a postage stamp, but as there are no further overhead cables behind the tram I think it's safe to assume that it is a terminus. The photo looks pre 1920's to me and I think the sign behind the tram might be something to do with the Stockland Green Inn that opened in 1924. This photo might indeed be of the same terminus some few years later (on the left of the photo). You will note I use a lot of ifs and might's.
 

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This shows the tram lines c 1915 and agrees with you Phil. the road off to the immediate right is Reservoir road, and the map shows Marsh lane curving off to the right past it
The red arrow shows appeox position of photographer

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Thanks Phil and Mike. Would never have got that one, even though I went to school just around the corner! Viv.
 
Mike

To me it looks like the photo was taken from Reservoir Road, looking towards March Hill (the bus) and the Stockland Pub, Chinese restaurant, Indian restaurant.... whatever it is now; I think the tram is on Slade Road.
 
Mortum
There are no tramlines marked on Reservoir road and the lines run towards the photographer
 
smashing photo viv....cinema still there although has been a bingo hall for many years and whatever that large plinth is on the opposite corner i dont think its there now

lyn
 
Do you mean the phone box Lyn ? Well I think it’s a phone box with the pointed top (to the right by the signpost) ? Viv.
 
thought so dave as the you cant get away from the likeness...thinking about it now i think you may have posted this one or one similar before...cheers

lyn
 
The photo in post 15# has much to see. Those were the times when a post with arms was sufficient for traffic directions; now replaced by large signs. The two tram standard poles, centre of photo, appear to also be very small islands. The pole nearest (left side) displays a good view of a tram stop plate, which would be red coloured as it says "all cars stop here". I guess that suggests the terminus shown in the earlier map. The track or track close to the photographer is/are not clearly shown but have to be there otherwise the stop plate and pole would not be there. Little traffic other than those doing deliveries could suggest a date at or not too long after WW1.
The cinema looks very impressive.
 
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The newsagents was Patterson's. My brother had a paper route for them in the l950's. We bought all our papers from Patterson's and I often wsent in to "pay the papers". Patterson's totally rebuilt the front of the building before they opened the shop. They bought two houses and converted them into the shop. Today, you can still see the new brickwork on the front of the shop. They sold toys,stationery, sweets, etc. It was a very nice shop. I used to do my brothers paper rounds when he was ill or late coming from KE Five Ways. He delivered twice a day. The route was off Streetly Road behind the Plaza Cinema.
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Was this a small often dingy shop inside, if so it is where you could buy individual Woodbines or Star cigarettes originally a 1d each, but later they went up to2d, used to go in there Sunday morning as I walked from Court Lane to my Grandmothers in Queens Road off Slade Road.

Bob
 
I remember the Stockland Pub very well, as I had a girl-friend who lived locally and we'd go there for a drink on Saturday afternoons sometimes. We also went to the Stockland Green cinema opposite - I'd like to say that we never saw much of the films that were on, but we were both very well brought-up.....

Later, I used to go to Jim Davis Models, which started up in a small premises at the top of Marsh Lane, then as his business grew moved across the road to the former Co-Op shop. On the corner of Reservoir Road and Slade Road was a Wrenson's Grocery, run by Mr Norman Pretty who was formerly manager of Wrenson's on Birchfield Road. I was friends with his eldest son Rod. And nowadays I buy my shoes at John Banks 'Big & Tall' shop at the top of Slade Road. Parking around there can be a nightmare, but no worse than anywhere else these days.

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An interesting press cutting (for sale on eBay) from 1978 suggesting the cinema would be replaced by a supermarket. Well it wasn’t replaced was it. Viv.

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I thought it did become a supermarket for a short time? Does anyone remember Frank Riegos' car? It was a sort of kit car come motorbike cross.

I also recal the gas lamps still working in the Plaza, it was all a bit tired in there.
 
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