Recent content by sheila43

I have to agree Lady P, what year span did your inlaws live in Prince Albert street I might have known them :) I noticed on google maps that the left hand side there were now no houses where our shop and the neighbours houses once stood

worth a try Thank you Maria

Agree so much I am try to locate a photo of my former home at 85 Bordesley Green a huge and historic house reduced to an open space now called Pit Stop :(

Afraid your wrong there David, my parents were caretakers for the practice lived in the house attached to the surgery. My Mum was also the receptonist :) this was in the 50's - 60's I was 14 at the time. Dr Jone's wife along with his 8 year old young daughter were killed in a car accident on...

Hi Lyn have come across another photo which I can see the tree that was in our front garden, Horse and cart hide any fencing I am thinking this is older than the one you found I have spent hours on my project I hope my perseverance will bring results.

Did you ever find the photo of the Doctors Surgery next to the Victoria Pub I am trying to find one, My parents were caretakers for the practice and we lived there as a family for 12 years

My Mom inside shop I am the older sister

Yes we moved to the big house I believe it changed to a Turf Accountant before it also was demolished. I have photo's of my sister and I outside the shop that Carl Chinn used for one of his books. I will post them to you :)

Hi Lyn, Yes she was only 58 it took me a long time to get over losing her, if I ever have.

Mom in white coat smaller of the 2 Doctor Bowens retirement, Mom and dad in the yard of the big house one of my mom outside the shop we lived in before moving to the big house next door, the building behind her was the Victoria Pub.

Y Hi Lynn R I agree, the inside where we lived was amazing, It was a surgery when I was 7 in 1950 and I do believe it was some years before that but we did not move to the shop which was right next door to the Vic Pub until I was seven. we moved to the surgery when I was 13. I wish I knew...

We lived in the shop in Prince Albert Street before we moved next door to the big house .

Yes that was so sad his wife and 8 year old daughter where killed in a RTA on their way to Wales for a family holiday.

I have a few pics of the back yard and Dr Bowens retirement I so wished I had taken photo's. It had 4 attics and 4 cellars to extra receptions as well as the waiting room. A huge Kitchen that had a box on the wall that had red stars in it and when a bell was pushed in any room it rang in the...