Radiorails
master brummie
I liked the Trittiford area pics, but after 65 years ago the memory, except the lock cottage at Warstock, is just vague.
I remember the shop next door to hayes. I was always sent on an errand Saturday afternoon for Ham on the bone and cobs also Tub Butter. The shop was called blacks i think?View attachment 85032Heres a photo of Hayes shop.
when i lived at 70 Pendeen road we Knew the shop as Blacks.I was sent up by my mother to get ham on the bone Tub butter and crusty cobs for a Saturday treat Around 1956 i would have been 7 years old.
My Grandparents lived at 18 Pendeen rdwhen i lived at 70 Pendeen road we Knew the shop as Blacks.I was sent up by my mother to get ham on the bone Tub butter and crusty cobs for a Saturday treat Around 1956 i would have been 7 years old.
Oh I have such a lovely memory coming back as I see the name 'Flints' in front of me - isnt memory amazing....? anyway Flints had everything, ha yes always open too. I seem to remember the excitement of going there with parents because they had a 'magic or jokes section' so I would occasionally get a magic or funny gift to play with....I think!I went to Highters Heath school, Infants and Juniors, (before going to Wheelers Lane). Memories of Flints etc.
I must warn you though, it was a LOOOONG time ago !
Yes I too remember Flints. I went to Yardley Wood Junior school and I would sometimes go down Highters Heath Lane and then along the Yardley Wood rd calling at Flints on the way. It was an Aladdins cave to a small boy. For me too it was a long long time ago.Oh I have such a lovely memory coming back as I see the name 'Flints' in front of me - isnt memory amazing....? anyway Flints had everything, ha yes always open too. I seem to remember the excitement of going there with parents because they had a 'magic or jokes section' so I would occasionally get a magic or funny gift to play with....I think!
Yes the Tylers lived on Highters Heath Lane, Steve died about 5 years ago very sad, does anyone remember the Reilly family from Aldbury Road.If you mean that group of houses that lay further back, Jennie, opposite Gorleston, then I remember a kid called Tyler lived there.(I used to get sent to that outdoor regularly to get ten Churchmans for Our Mom !).
One of the films on the poster looks like "Undercover Girl".
Having "Googled" it I see that the year of that movie was 1950.
(Not bad, I'd guessed that the photo was taken in the 40s !).
Hi Johnny, your name rings a bell with me. I think I am the same age as you (born in 1949) and we may have been friends as children. Do you remember Ivor Parkin from number 34. I also have memories of Blacks, especially the smells of cheese, ham and vinegar and, of course, the fly papers covered in flies hanging over the counter.when i lived at 70 Pendeen road we Knew the shop as Blacks.I was sent up by my mother to get ham on the bone Tub butter and crusty cobs for a Saturday treat Around 1956 i would have been 7 years old.
My mother-in-law used to call them "Skinflints".I find it hard to get dewey-eyed about Mrs Flint!
I remember the shop used to be stacked with stuff from floor to ceiling and when you went in she'd bark "whadda you want ?"
Most of the kids were too frightened to go in the place. The "Bottom Flints" was more child-friendly I recall.
Not knowing how old your Mother- in Law is does she remember the Breakwells at number 18 Denis, Gladys and there children Betty, June and David my mom Betty would of been 23 in 1949Hi IvorP .... my mother-in-law (nee Shufflebottom) lived at 36 Pendeen, but moved out in 1949 to Prince of Wales Lane. She remembers your mother Hilda, brother Ronnie and sister Rita. She remembers your dad at the VE (or VJ) Day celebrations dressed as an Arab!
Hello, a cousin of mine who lived on Yardley Wood Road, was married to a Harry Shufflebottom in the late 60s. I wonder if he was related to to your Mother in Law's family.Hi IvorP .... my mother-in-law (nee Shufflebottom) lived at 36 Pendeen, but moved out in 1949 to Prince of Wales Lane. She remembers your mother Hilda, brother Ronnie and sister Rita. She remembers your dad at the VE (or VJ) Day celebrations dressed as an Arab!