The most dangerous road.

[Smudger]

The roughest road in Britain. My old stomping ground of the 40`s & 50s, Slade road in Erdington has been branded the roughest road in Britain. It was a damn nice friendly place when i lived there, so having lost it`s pub, school & cinema amongst others it`s become a dangerous place, but then hasn`t everywhere.

 

[mw0njm.]

i never liked it becouse the school clinic was down there

 

[Pedrocut]

Went to that clinic for a verruca.

 

[mw0njm.]

sunlight treatment most days we would walk along slade rd and sve the bus tokens we was given

 

[Biscayne]

I remember Fred Hanks, the motorcycle shop, who kept my BSA Bantam going long after it should have gone to the scrapyard. Also Hoggs, the lab equipment supplier where you could buy all the stuff they had in the Chemistry lab at school and repeat the experiments at home. I remember buying Potassium metal and doing the experiment where a sliver of the metal was dropped into a beaker of water, where it would skate on the surface burning with a blue flame. Tried scaling it up by dropping the remaining slug into the canal from a bridge. Learned that it doesn't scale - loud bang and a slug of burning metal flying into the distance! Happy days!