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Ward End & Washwood Heath

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A few pictures of Ward End & Washwood Heath, including Cocksparrows Hall in St Margarets, the Fox & Goose, St Margarets Rd, the Barley Mow & lastly the Fox & Goose 1905:
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Dancey's Farm Cotterills Lane, Ward End 1923. Thank you to Mike for finding this one & improving the quality.
In 1911 Harry Darcey was a market gardener.
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Here are a few photographs of Ward End Park. I have happy memories of playing Sunday cricket there in the Birmingham Parks League 40+ years ago:

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Many thanks Pedro. Taking your info further, #5 Bromford Road looks like 1930s residential to me. Either this is Winifred’s home address, the numbering on Bromford Road changed or the shop was somewhere else. The shop looks like a late Victorian/Edwardian front to me, possibly in an old style parade of shops. All guesswork afraid !

Viv.
 
There's a Winifred Robbins listed at 5 Coleshill Road on ERs, opposite what would have been the Beaufort. They were/still are shops.
 
Apologies Pedro, mixed up ‘Lane’ and ‘Road’. Thanks MWS, it most likely is the place, now an estate agents, although the upstairs window seems different (although could be a trick of the camera) and, as with all these parades, all the shop fronts have been changed. Viv.

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Ref. photo in post 9. Could easily have been my nan or great nan in the picture and a few years later it could have been me. Not sure if any of those shops were around 10 or so years later but I can't remember any of them not even Bragg's (much better than Gregg's).

I still walk past but now it's not as nice.
 
There are a few little changes, but I think this is the modern(ish) view of Treaford Lane (can't get rid of the inset). I think the second house on the left (with the peaked roof) is where my nan & grandad (and dad) moved to after the war.

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Was it this garage Pete at the junction of Washwood Heath Road and Alum Rock Road ?

Viv
 

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The address is 861 Washwood Heath Road. Maybe someone could do a look up please? Photo looks about 1950s. Viv.
 
20 October 1954 (Bham Daily Gazette) there was Furness Motor Services at that address.

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