Recent content by oldsheldonian

I mentioned the 'pill box ' earlier in this thread - that was a childhood memory. Google earth refers to them as 'air raid shelters' but as tedyboy2001 says they were in fact a Battle Headquarters. They are mentioned in these links together with some photos...

Lindyloo - Thank you for this additional information. I had followed up my previous post by comparing the Ship photo and the map. I think you have illustrated the situation very clearly. I lived even closer, as a child, than OldBrummie and probably regularly clambered over the location of the...

How about this for an idea. The Sheldonia could be the buildings near the wheatsheaf just above 483 and 482 on mikejees map. Firstly you have to imagine that you are standing on the opposite side of the road to the Wheatsheaf looking at the buildings from the little f shaped mark on the dotted...

Interesting photo - lots of indistinct writing on the signs and building itself - if you have the original photo they might possibly be readible?

In post #278 above lindyloo appears to have identified the Ship Tearooms and its proprietor from a photo and established that it was number 2159 which places it on the Wheatsheaf side of the road. In post #283 mikejee identifies the empty gap between number 2109 and 2233 again on the Wheatsheaf...

I have just looked at an Ordnance survey map of Sheldon produced in 1913 and revised in 1938 with a note saying that new buildings have been added but old ones have not been revised and may no longer exist. It shows the buildings which appear on mikejees map opposite a new rank of housing where...

A family anecdote has it that when my grandad moved to Sheldon he had the opportunity to buy the land which is marked 380 on the Horse Shoes side. He bought 1 acre . I remember the empty land in the 40's/50's opposite our bungalows being very uneven, consistent with buildings having been...

I suspect house numbering can change but I have just noticed that the Ship Tearooms was numbered 2159. Honeybournes was 2158 and the next door bungalow also owned and built for my grandad was 2160. This would seem to confirm that the Ship was on the Wheatsheaf side. There were no properties...

Hello Lindiloo. You are very welcome to copy the photo's I posted. I am waiting to see if my cousin's cousin can add anything about the missing lighthouseo_O!! When i was in Sheldon my mother ran the Post Office (which became Honeybourne's Stores when the a new Branch Office opened further down...

Lindiloo - not sure if you get notified about amendments to posts - I have added info about the Sheldona cafe to my earlier post

My memories of Small Heath Park are walking through it to go to WaverlyGS and escaping from WGS in the lunchtime and rowing boats on the lake whenever I could. There was a British Restaurant somewhere in the middle of the park where I would get a cup of tea and a cup cake if I had any money...

Hi Lindyloo, I have been looking at an old thread in Place Related Enquiries and found some interesting entries back in 2011. I can't remember either cafe but have asked my cousin if she can. When were the cafes around?. I left in 1953 and at that time Honeybournes stores was the same as the...

Yes it was requisitioned by the Air ministry. You see some information about this on this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Airport

There are some pics of Elmdon amongst those on this link...

I lived in Sheldon and often took the trollybus to the boundary and walked to Elmdon airport . There was a pillbox directly opposite the Coventry Road end of the runway and it was here that I spent many hours watching the planes. I can't be exact about the dates but these are some memories. Air...