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Witton and District Allotments Limited

Hi Pedrocut - do you know from where this photograph was taken, looks like from the back bedroom of a house on Brookvale Road?
 
Radiorails said:
Post 61 shows new uses for earlier buildings. A converted air raid shelter and next door seems to have a prefab?
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Yes, imported from elsewhere.

In this picture it shows that some allotment holders had large areas and in reality it was a market garden. Probably on the “Committee.”
 
Pedrocut said:
Quite right.
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I used to live at 213 opposite the refuse destructor, the house was demolished along with the stonemasons to make way for the M6. My father had an allotment and I remember him taking me to see the pigs on one of the plots. I also gained a life long fear of dogs after being bitten by one in the right of way which stretched along the back of the houses from the Barn.
 
Martyn said:
I used to live at 213 opposite the refuse destructor, the house was demolished along with the stonemasons to make way for the M6. My father had an allotment and I remember him taking me to see the pigs on one of the plots. I also gained a life long fear of dogs after being bitten by one in the right of way which stretched along the back of the houses from the Barn.
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You may be able to see your house in this picture taken from near the distructor, and showing Roddis and Norse the stonemasons...
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Brookvale Road in the 1960s - Old Birmingham

By Pedrocut. The scene before the construction of the M6 motorway and Spaghetti Junction.
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Pedrocut said:
You may be able to see your house in this picture taken from near the distructor, and showing Roddis and Norse the stonemasons...
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Brookvale Road in the 1960s - Old Birmingham

By Pedrocut. The scene before the construction of the M6 motorway and Spaghetti Junction.
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Yes, our house was the second one from the stonemasons with the white front. I would say that was early 60s but there is little to go on and my brother reckons it could be 50s. Surprisingly enough for a girl from Birmingham, the next door neighbour's daughter married a lighthouse keeper.
 
Wow! That cutting brings back memories. Every Sunday morning, before and during the war, my brother and I used to go up to those allotments to an old couple who sold their produce. We used to return home with cabbage and potatoes, mint and rhubarb. Still remember chomping on the rhubarb as we walked back home. The old couple were lovely to us.
 
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