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Wainwright Street Aston
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Happyguy
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I found this advert for Buttons Ltd in the 1939 Kellys , it is addressed as being in Portland St, but Buttons were on Wainwright St as well .
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Happyguy
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Looking at this wonderful map makes me wonder how Buttons were said to be associated with Wainwright St as the map shows it clearly being on Portland St as in the advert.
HI YES Happy guy it was a huge property with a couple of floors above the building as well as stretching back
with variuos departtments within the factory grounds producing buttons of all discriptions
and that was lower portland street originaly that was known to us emediate locals as i lived just around the corner
on lichfield road where i was born in the courts and the square as we was listed it was a big terrace that went upa huge slope we was half way up the slope and there was twenty houses up it
with one brew house and four toilets to be shared by twenty familys ours was five back of 92
i used to spend all my time down and around wainwrigt street from one end to the othjer by dyson hall
at the junction of park rd and wainwright street
and directly across facing the hallwas the houses you see on the given map at the bottom of the corner of park rd and wainwright street yo see the pink spot coloured in next to it is a blank square within that blanck square was an air raid shelter it was a huge concrete one as kids we used to play in there and scramble all over the roof of it
there used to be dozens of us kids from wainwright street andsome from park street
it was local kids from upper thomas street school whom lived in those corner house and the court of the yard
whom was my friends as kids i spent alot of time in waiwrigt street and got to know alot of familys
even the gully that ran through from wainwrigt street up through to lichfield rd
getting back on track in that period of 1939 yes it was a very small unit of buttons and it was use for variuos things
of mainy storage but in the fortys it was stopped and became vagrant and never used
they moved up in to portland street from there and they was there right up till about the 70 cleareance of aston
as well as buttons in later years they made alumiuim garden furtiture as as buttons
i startted there as a young fella and i was a tube bender in a department there also my brother he worked there
in the stores and wayu back in the early 1952 there was aguy called albert gough whom was our neibour
up the terrace facing our house he had an accident within the electro plating depart with sulphu acid
and it was blinded in the one eye and he lost his eye sight in the one eye
there was a pub on the corner then a couple of little houses then there was buttons factory passing that there was anothe batch of house to the bottom of the street across the road facin there was another batch of houses and one became a tea rooms owned by the brants family whom actualy lived next door to uis up the terace they lived at number four and we was number five
on the subject of a picture of buttons picture there are dozens knocking about at one time or another
i myself do not have one but i will go through my books and recheck , but saying that may be one of our members will see your rquest and put one up for you best wishes Astonian,,,,,,,
with variuos departtments within the factory grounds producing buttons of all discriptions
and that was lower portland street originaly that was known to us emediate locals as i lived just around the corner
on lichfield road where i was born in the courts and the square as we was listed it was a big terrace that went upa huge slope we was half way up the slope and there was twenty houses up it
with one brew house and four toilets to be shared by twenty familys ours was five back of 92
i used to spend all my time down and around wainwrigt street from one end to the othjer by dyson hall
at the junction of park rd and wainwright street
and directly across facing the hallwas the houses you see on the given map at the bottom of the corner of park rd and wainwright street yo see the pink spot coloured in next to it is a blank square within that blanck square was an air raid shelter it was a huge concrete one as kids we used to play in there and scramble all over the roof of it
there used to be dozens of us kids from wainwright street andsome from park street
it was local kids from upper thomas street school whom lived in those corner house and the court of the yard
whom was my friends as kids i spent alot of time in waiwrigt street and got to know alot of familys
even the gully that ran through from wainwrigt street up through to lichfield rd
getting back on track in that period of 1939 yes it was a very small unit of buttons and it was use for variuos things
of mainy storage but in the fortys it was stopped and became vagrant and never used
they moved up in to portland street from there and they was there right up till about the 70 cleareance of aston
as well as buttons in later years they made alumiuim garden furtiture as as buttons
i startted there as a young fella and i was a tube bender in a department there also my brother he worked there
in the stores and wayu back in the early 1952 there was aguy called albert gough whom was our neibour
up the terrace facing our house he had an accident within the electro plating depart with sulphu acid
and it was blinded in the one eye and he lost his eye sight in the one eye
there was a pub on the corner then a couple of little houses then there was buttons factory passing that there was anothe batch of house to the bottom of the street across the road facin there was another batch of houses and one became a tea rooms owned by the brants family whom actualy lived next door to uis up the terace they lived at number four and we was number five
on the subject of a picture of buttons picture there are dozens knocking about at one time or another
i myself do not have one but i will go through my books and recheck , but saying that may be one of our members will see your rquest and put one up for you best wishes Astonian,,,,,,,
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Happyguy
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Thanks for your information Alan (Astonian) as well as hearing about Buttons to hear about your life as a kid is wonderful.
astonwoodie
Brummie babby
My brother Victor Wood was a bugler in the Boys Brigade in the late 40s early 50s and I was in the life boys for a short time. My grandfather who was killed in the battle of the Somme had his name E A WOO inscribed on a panel attached to a wall on Dyson hall, I wonder what happened to it?
Hi Astonwoodie
Yes i recall the aston birmingham boys brigade i st company as it was and ran by captain roberts
My two older brothers was there in there about the same ddperiod of the late fortys and early fifties
Ron the older of the two was one of the front lead drummer ,there was three lead drummers ron was
Always in the midddle so i expext he would have known my brothers ,
The other brother was billy he was on the bugle alond with his mate ray jarratt and terry jaratt is brother
and i think it was peter sharp the other bugle the flag bearear was jhn lloyes from white house street
Aston . i myself was in the life bouys brigade there at dyson hall and the sunday school
Captain roberts lived in a ig house in Albert road aston,
Yes i recall the aston birmingham boys brigade i st company as it was and ran by captain roberts
My two older brothers was there in there about the same ddperiod of the late fortys and early fifties
Ron the older of the two was one of the front lead drummer ,there was three lead drummers ron was
Always in the midddle so i expext he would have known my brothers ,
The other brother was billy he was on the bugle alond with his mate ray jarratt and terry jaratt is brother
and i think it was peter sharp the other bugle the flag bearear was jhn lloyes from white house street
Aston . i myself was in the life bouys brigade there at dyson hall and the sunday school
Captain roberts lived in a ig house in Albert road aston,
astonwoodie
Brummie babby
H Astonian
Thanks for all that info, I cannot remember the name of the other people you mention, unfortunately my brother died 12 years ago at the age of 72. We lived at No 120 Wainwright Street just down the road from Dyson Hall, do you know if anyone you mention lived anywhere nearby?
Thanks a lot
Thanks for all that info, I cannot remember the name of the other people you mention, unfortunately my brother died 12 years ago at the age of 72. We lived at No 120 Wainwright Street just down the road from Dyson Hall, do you know if anyone you mention lived anywhere nearby?
Thanks a lot
Hi astonwoodie
To be honest astonwoodie of recent 12 months alot of them have past away the goodmans family i recall i beleive they was living in bordeley green by the hospital they moved from wainwright to mannor road stecherd ther was dolly and Albert And sammy and the sibblings and there was the marsdens my cousin but have died all but one remaining
but they moved out across to the bordeslely green road by the hospital there is one or two on this forum that used to live in wainwright street that come on now and then so said really do you recall the sargents by the gully one of there lot came on nots so long back as kids we used to run them down the gully take care Astonian;;;;;;;
To be honest astonwoodie of recent 12 months alot of them have past away the goodmans family i recall i beleive they was living in bordeley green by the hospital they moved from wainwright to mannor road stecherd ther was dolly and Albert And sammy and the sibblings and there was the marsdens my cousin but have died all but one remaining
but they moved out across to the bordeslely green road by the hospital there is one or two on this forum that used to live in wainwright street that come on now and then so said really do you recall the sargents by the gully one of there lot came on nots so long back as kids we used to run them down the gully take care Astonian;;;;;;;
brummy-lad
master brummie
A picture of the Manor Tavern at 9 Wainwright Street, taken in the 70s possibly (looks like a Vauxhall Viva HC parked in front).
How it looks now plus a picture further down the road at No. 18 showing what survives of the Metal Press Works.
How it looks now plus a picture further down the road at No. 18 showing what survives of the Metal Press Works.
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brummy-lad
master brummie
Hi Lyn, that picture is on here somewhere but not under the Wainwright Street thread.
I worked in Wainwright st end of 1970 for Claribell coaches, I also remember when they took over the building on the main road which had formed their back wall. When we looked around we found what looked like parts off bicycle wheel spokes so presumably that was what the building was previously used for.
Radiorails
master brummie
With luck you may see in the maps, in posts 3 and 7 of this thread, which could show what that building was.
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wainwrightdave
New Member
don,t know if any interest i am one of the busby/kerr family formerly of 29 wainwright st astonthanks john it must have passed me by
brummy-lad
master brummie
Hi Dave and welcome to the forum, any old pictures you have of that area, or indeed any area of Birmingham would be much appreciated.
Sheila Eastwood
proper brummie kid
Hi Lily, my parents used to live at 2/62 wainwright street, do you recall any of the Eastwood or Ingram families
Sheila Eastwood
proper brummie kid
Hi, my parents used to live at 2/62 wainwright street, do you know of the Eastwood or Ingram familes
Sheila Eastwood
proper brummie kid
Cheers, the family did have car selling i the family, do you remember any of his siblings, my great grandfather was David Eastwood
Sheila Eastwood
proper brummie kid
Hi Astonian, my parents lived at 2/62 Wainwright Street, their family names were Eastwood and Ingram, do you recall any of them, cheers. I know a Dave Busby who lived in Wainwright Street, i see him three times a week.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
I am sorry to say. Astonian has gone but is not forgot
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Sheila Eastwood
proper brummie kid
sorry i did not know, my apologies.