The car on the drive looks like the rear end of my father's Ford Consul, which would make this photo from about 1956. The house, at the Six Ways end of Erdington High Street, was our family home and also housed my father, Dr. Frank Treadwell's surgery. There's a tad more traffic now.No, Lyn. Tesco built their first (I think) Birmingham store there, now Peacocks.
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My memory is a little hazy but we left in (I think) the Spring of '63 - I went to live with family on Croftdown Road, Harborne - the Old MAn went to live in a huge old vicarage in the wilds of west Shropshire
In those days even the small stores of Boots did more than dispense pre-packaged stuff. For instance, they would mix coal-tar with shampoo instead of having to pay through the nose for proprietary stuff and we used to buy a liquid soap called Sulphestol for washing up (I think it was a gallon at a time)
By that time the Old Man was up in the hills of Shropshire, close to the Welsh border, the closest neighbour was half a mile away, a touch different from city life. I went to live in Harborne with aunts until I bought a semi in Wylde Green in 1969 and was finally exiled to North Wales in '78
I love the gender discrimination
The name rings a bell but in honesty, I'm not sure why. Across the road, I do remember Molly Norton who had a cosmetics shop and her brother, George, the optician above her shop. Molly had the Chanel franchise and used to take great delight in using the spray sample bottle to cover a 5 or 6-year-old boy in feminine fragrances. She was a great friend of my mother who died in 1950 when I was 7.
I remember the Music Box. You could choose a record and then go into a booth and listen to it.
We called them Tesco Specials. The had the hems turned up.I remember the Music Box well. I bought Space Oddity and Purple Haze from it in the late 60s. I remember Tesco's on the High Street at the same time too. We used to call their jeans Tesco Tearaways...
Not listed in 1968 phone book but 1970 has this entry. I post both as the B23 one is referred to as a restaurant.
I was super sophisticated, I drank coffee in Rackhams' Cafe but the best place was the garden on the top of Lewis's
That was the later ones. I remember the ones before plastic, where they were cardboard cartons coated with some wax and most of the taste was the waxI was very sophisticated back then too, I enjoyed one of these at the Palace cinema on most Saturday's....I can still taste that plastic!
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