Recent content by philbee

hi just seen this post not sure it is any use to your request, but there is a building just of the pershore road behind a green grocers and opposite wickes it has always facinated me the sign on the building says "JESSE HILL GUNMAKERS" it looks like an old workshop,be interesting if there was...

i have just come back on the forum after being of for a few years and came across your post reguarding Baldys Mansion on kingshurst i never knew it as that i knew it as old wallys farm, it was in fact owned by Walter Townsend who lived there by himself and his jack russell dogs who used to...

I posted the last post before i had written it (silly me) anyway i was just going to say that you are correct in naming Rita Gallagher she was my cousin she is sadly no longer with us but she must have been young in this photo , i to worked at newtons in the toolroom and later on in the...

Hi debs The playing field shown on the map was johnnie wrights playing field it had big green gates that seemed permenantly closed but didnt stop the kids getting over we lived across the road at 3baka162 long acre. Philbee

Hi Mike just accessed this old post in which you have stated that the photos of "st Clements school " are infact St Clements church i think was in stuart street the school was in High Park Street i was at st clements from 1953 to 1958 when we left "the old end" and moved to Kingshurst. Reguards...

Just came across this thread and as i have mentioned before on the site about an uncle Thomas Edgar Harrison his body was found at 35 Claverdon street nechells he is recorded on the Barras website and war graves website for civilian dead as being found in Clarendon street but his death...

It was certainly a scarey ride on a loaded no8 going round that bend and the next one by the pub the drivers seemed to speed up going round those bends and if you were on the top deck you wondered whether he had over done it but it always straightened up thankfuly! phill

Just came across this post and looking at the photo of the flats being built i noticed the question being asked was what could the structure be in the background well when i was working at the gas boards regional transport depot in duddeston mill road their new garage was built on the old gas...

gerald is the pub still there i used to live on kingshurst and frequented castle brom in my youth but cant visualize the pub. phil

where was the comet?

Is this firm the Johnnie Wrights that had a playing field on long acre nechells that we used to play on?

Eddie Great photo makes you feel proud to be a brummie i wonder if these officers were ex cavalry as they all seem to have campaign medals or were they awarded for service one wonders ! Phil

I think all the people that see bad in estates see bad in all estates , my family moved to the kingshurst estate in the late fifties just as the estate was being built it was a great place to grow up in having come from back to back housing in nechells i remember playing in the "bluebell" wood...

Thanks nick That was the name of the street it seemed very narrow! Phil