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Newtown row shops

Astoness

Astoness

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as promised for wendy and sylvia...the first pic taken end of 1800s early 1900s..i wonder if anyone can make out the st sign on the right???.......as it would be good to know exactly where this one was taken...would also be grateful if someone would kindly work some magic on it as although i have resized it its still not very good

many thanks

lyn
 
pic 2 was taken in maybe the 50s or 60s......help needed again please...could do with a look up for J A WOOD AND SON to see what number newtown row this shop was...

thanks again for any help....cant understand why these two pics are not very sharp i dont normally have this prob...

lyn
 
Thanks for posting Lyn, I think this is a lot further down Newtown Row from where my g.grandparents had the fish shop, for some reason I imagined No.26 would be nearer the Fire Station end, and Mikejee did mention the numbers Wendy and I were interested in were between Brewery and Manchester Streets.
 
thanks john....hi sylvia yes ive just noticed that and i think you are right...by the way brewery st holds some interest to me as i keep meaning to go down and take a pic of the only remaining building in that street...i guess it would have been a house but until i get closer to it i cant really see that much from the bus...will try and get down tomorrow with me camera....may take a look at manchester st as well...

lyn
 
just thought i would throw this one in....the white lion pub on the corner of brearley st and newtown row.... at a guess more or less opposite manchester st....

lyn
 
While in Manchester street pop into the Globe on the corner and look at the ornate wood carvings over the bar, in 1871 there was a pub in Manchester street called the Railway Inn my great aunt Ann Houghton nee Saunders was a servant girl there, just around the corner in Newtown Row you can pop in the Clement Arms originally called the Kings Arms till taken over by George Clements and then later named after the family name of Clements
 
crikey john...you will have me tipsy lol....ive heard about the carvings in the globe so depending on the time i will take a look..thanks for the info on the clements...i didnt know it was originally called the kings arms...by the way i dont surpose you have a pic of the railway inn do you...

lyn
 
I have been looking for info about the Railway Inn for ten years and why would it be called the Railway Inn as there are no rail connections as far as I can see to that area.
 
Lynn
The first picture showed Henry Ashmore, tobacconist at 108 newtown row, corner of Hatchett st

Mike
 
well well mike..for some reason i just imagined pic 1 being on the other side of the road...well now thanks to you i know it wasnt...now ive got me bearings on that one...

many thanks

lyn
 
Astoness said:
pic 2 was taken in maybe the 50s or 60s......help needed again please...could do with a look up for J A WOOD AND SON to see what number newtown row this shop was...

thanks again for any help....cant understand why these two pics are not very sharp i dont normally have this prob...

lyn
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The Premium Bond competition was started in 1957 with the top prize of £1,000 as advertised on the hoarding-sized poster seen. The top prize was raised to £5,000 on 1 August 1960. So somewhere between those two dates? Unless Post Offices in that particular area were still only offering £1,000 max, years after the threshhold winnings were updated?
 
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Astoness said:
thanks john....hi sylvia yes ive just noticed that and i think you are right...by the way brewery st holds some interest to me as i keep meaning to go down and take a pic of the only remaining building in that street...i guess it would have been a house but until i get closer to it i cant really see that much from the bus...will try and get down tomorrow with me camera....may take a look at manchester st as well...

lyn
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Is this the one you're on about Lynn?

Terry
 
Also The Globe in Manchester St. It says on the sign that they do meetings, might be worth bearing in mind.

Terry
 
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A Girl Was Working In the Shop When This Happened.

A lorry crashed into a shop window in Newtown Row, Birmingham, to-day, and as shown in the top picture completely wrecked one side of the premises, a fish and chip saloon. Miss Joyce Kench (below), aged 18, who was working in the shop preparing for the lunch hour rush, had a narrow escape from injury.
(Evening Despatch January 1940)
 
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