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The question about Sutton Road is interesting as it looks to get a mention some 20 odd years after High Street. If you look on the OS...

Hi Janice, I hadn't seen Sutton Road with reference to the High Street before but it was the road to Sutton so I suppose that makes...

Janice post #412 shows Easy Row much clearer than my map. I think Easy Row was definitely on the High Street not at the rear. There are...

Apologies for the standard of these photos of Easy Row - The photo is taken from Saxton's Bygone Erdington and the map is from...

The rebuilding of W.M.Taylors in the 1960s and its takeover by Owen Owen in the 1970s. Must have been a sad, but predicted, end for...

On reflection ( ;) ), I should have put a "smilie" instead of a exclamation mark at the end of my post as my joke was not evident.

Alan remarked that the horse may have been taking a drink, and it looks like there is some water in the picture. I could not remember...

The shops on the right gave way to W M Taylor and then Owen Owen. The church was on Newman Road I think. .

Pedro, I'm having a senior moment I think. What does the previous post refer to please?

Looks to be the 1950's mw0njm. I believe the donkeys belonged to the Chipmans who had a field at the Chester Road end of Court Lane. I...

1950s I spent hours at the late rag market, about 8 or 9 years old, this would be goods in and out for the market, if you went to that...

i know that in 1851 people were living in some awful housing conditions but reading the above greens village sounds as though it was a...

My great grandfather, Henry Davis, lived in Green's Village in the mid-1800's. He came from Radnorshire.

On the 1911 census it is referred to as part of the parish of St. James' (Mere Green) but obviously covers a large area. There is a...

Hi Jenny1702, the photo above brought back lots of memories for me. We used to walk to Erdington Village through the little cut-through...