The Valley pub, Billesley

[Peter1]

Isn't it interesting that we all loved our prefabs. Would we still enjoy living in them now, I wonder, when we've got used to having central heating, double glazing, fitted carpets, etc etc? I think I would.

I certainly would too. Such pride in that 'home'.

 

[tommy]

ive finally gone and found it...outside my dads shop @ 1970..832 yw road

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hi villian was there an entrance that ran by your shop to the back a short cut for people from the houses from denby grove

or have i got all mixed up?

 

[Rita Hawkins]

hi villian was there an entrance that ran by your shop to the back a short cut for people from the houses from denby grove

or have i got all mixed up?

If your Dad was Vic he used to cross us over Y Wd Rd on our way home from school. Mom always bought her meat there.

 

[Tery]

That clinic brings back a lot of bad memories the school dentist operated from there he was a little Scots man and I will never forget his approach to nervous children it went something like if you dont stop crying I will give you something to cry about, how times have changed.

I had very bad memories of the dental clinic which are still with today whenever I go to the dentist. I guess that was the 1950s when attended Wheeler Lane SMB.

 

[Emmatrueman29]

I lived right opposite The Valley Pub growing up in the 1970's. 850 Yardley Wood Rd. This was my dad and mom's local pub. They played dominos for the team there also I remember my mom playing darts for 24 hours for charity. I would wait outside in my dad's car playing in the car park and sitting waiting for them to come out when finished. I remember the owner had children Michelle and Terrance. I can remember our coal man called Sid who lived on Chin Brook rd. I can remember the 18 bus terminal and the prefab type houses that was on the side going up Yardley Wood rd, I had a friend who lived in one there and we would go into her shed to play. I also remember the Poppin shop, we called it the 1p shop, I think there was a green grocer by the Poppin shop as I can recall apples being outside in boxes. I went to Billesley Junior School and I walked there by myself in them years without any hassle and felt safe.

hi im Michelles and terence lil sister Emma

 

[Rita Hawkins]

We lived in one of the prefabs, no 845. Then we moved to Haunch Lane in 1960 cos we were tld the prefabs were going to be demolished. They were but not for another 12 years!

 

[S K P]

Lived in oak croft road in the 50s as a kid used to sit and watch the old mechanical shovel load the Lorries up at the gravel pit which has long gone now, when I was older I worked behind the bar at the valley when Steve was the landlord happy memories there. just across the road was the 18 terminus with the clock and the shelter, I remember the last Bus back was 6 minutes past 11