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Lozells Road, Shops, Pubs, Businesses etc

A Sparks said:
Interesting to see the row of houses at the start of Villa Road that where there before they must have been demolished and the bank was built - I think it was a Lloyd's?
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hi sparks the houses were not demolished they are still there and the bank as seen in the aerial view...todays st view..just to add that villa road started and barker street and ran up to soho road..i had a friend who lived in one of those house back in the early 70s

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A Sparks said:
Thanks @Astoness, I should have realised but i haven't been that way for a few years, just forgotten what the view was like! :rolleyes:
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i wished i could remember which house my friend lived in :rolleyes: ...pretty certain the front door was on the right as you walked up the path and looking at how far i think it was from the old bank i am taking a guess it could have been no 51 with the white door...what i find sad is the loss of so many old houses in hall road..i was just taking a google walk down it and noticed that if we turn down hall road first on the left is called tollgate drive..nice touch just a shame we have lost so many old buildings..this is why i think these wonderful aerial shots are so important as they show us just what we have lost over the years

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Astoness said:
great shot john...would it be possible to take a shot showing numbers 254 to 258 lozells road which used to be bendalls other shop...thank you

lyn
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Unfortunately Lyn the only photo with those shops on (front view) are really poor quality with no detail whatsoever.
The image with Bendall's corner was from a set showing the Denison factory (and thereabouts), they were brilliant quality.
 
brummy-lad said:
Unfortunately Lyn the only photo with those shops on (front view) are really poor quality with no detail whatsoever.
The image with Bendall's corner was from a set showing the Denison factory (and thereabouts), they were brilliant quality.
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ok john thanks for looking...

lyn
 
oldMohawk said:
Here are some photos of the Lozells Road area which Keith Berry took in 1979.
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They are from pdf4 in link below

Keith Berry's Photo Legacy

Keith Berry's 'Old Birmingham & Surroundings' Photo Gallery Recovery of 600 approx photos is complete, 15 albums click on any to see. Keith Berry's titles and comments are in the albums ... 1 1950s /1960s Aston, Birchfield, Lozells, Handsworth. (48) 2 1950s/1960s Handsworth, Handsworth Park...
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These two photos bring back a lot of memories. Mom would trek up to Lozells to do the shopping. Sometimes, we would tag along. Whenever we got there, we would make a beeline for the petshop and toyshop and press our noses against the windows. We used to bring our kittens to that petshop once they were weaned. They must have had 20 or so from us over the years. Mom would pop in next door to Eugene's, who she knew very well. They would spend hours yacking while Eugene's wife would roll her eyes in despair whenever mom showed up knowing she would get no work out of him for the next hour. She did have to warn him to keep his boxes of veg off the floor around the front of the shop because the local wildlife was inclined to cock their legs and season them, when Eugene's back was turned.

Apart from that, mom was very friendly with another shop owner of a women's clothes shop further up the road called Alicia Mansell. Don't know if anyone remembers that shop. I have memories of being bored rigid waiting for mom to finish her exciting conversation, with nothing in that shop to entertain me.
 
if anyone has photos of these shops before demo would love to see them please...they were opposite the royal oak pub...main interest is the chippy and wardrobe dealer which basically was a second hand shop...many thanks...

lyn

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Here is a snapshot I took of the program I saw last night on the Discovery History channel. It's the Lozells Picture House after it was bombed. Earlier on this thread there was a debate on whether there were two such picture houses and where they were. This image is of the one near to Wilton St. The other one was near Six Ways opposite to William St which apparently was demolished before the war. I've seen conflicting details on this other picture house which, I believe was originally called the Aston Picture Palace later renamed the Lozells Picture House and demolished in 1922.
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Hi

Thanks for a big memory jog. I lived in Brougham St in the 40s and early 50s and I was dragged along Lozells Rd every Saturday for the weekly shop, the only redeeming factor was the look round Woolworth's and occasionally go back home clutching a little toy.

Does anyone remember the explosion around 1947/48? At the Villa Cross end was an Esso Depot and someone was arc welding on a tanker and it went bang. I think I was in school at St. Silas's at the time. Not forgetting Padmore's the Billiard Table company. There was a police station somewhere at the Woolworth's end of Lozells Rd, That's where I was taken when I wandered out of Anglsey St. school one afternoon before the bell. That is why I finished up in St. Silas's I was expelled an achievement at only 4 years of age.

Brian
 
Brian s said:
Hi

Thanks for a big memory jog. I lived in Brougham St in the 40s and early 50s and I was dragged along Lozells Rd every Saturday for the weekly shop, the only redeeming factor was the look round Woolworth's and occasionally go back home clutching a little toy.

Does anyone remember the explosion around 1947/48? At the Villa Cross end was an Esso Depot and someone was arc welding on a tanker and it went bang. I think I was in school at St. Silas's at the time. Not forgetting Padmore's the Billiard Table company. There was a police station somewhere at the Woolworth's end of Lozells Rd, That's where I was taken when I wandered out of Anglsey St. school one afternoon before the bell. That is why I finished up in St. Silas's I was expelled an achievement at only 4 years of age.

Brian
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I remember the Esso explosion. It was a repair depot and there we quite frequent mini pops!
 
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