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Handsworth Junction Road
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sue reeves
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Hi - I used to walk along Junction Road on my way to Watville Infant & Junion School 1955 - 1959.
BrumKidMemories25
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I have just joined this forum, after looking up old places I used to live as a kid. We left the UK in June, 1977 (I was 14 at the time), but have been back and forth to both Birmingham and London (some family members live there) over the years.
One of the places we lived for a while was in a corner house - 34, Junction road. My mom's bedroom was above a hairdresser. House has now gone. It was on a corner, we were sandwiched in between two schools. I eventually left the infants and started in Watville (around the the other corner). If you turned to the right when coming out of the house, there was the infant school and at the end of that road was a railway / waste ground area where some of us often went to play-hang out.
We lived next door to a nice family (can't remember the parents by first name) and the son and daughter were named, Jane and Colin Griffith or Powell. I don't know why both names seem significant. I'll ask my mom, as she was friendly with the mother.I have lots of memories from living there, but probably wasting my time to say too much, here. I used to play with a few kids in area, but one in particular was an Indian girl called Indapal (not sure if that is spelled correctly).
This was in the last year or two of the 60s. We moved to Yardley Wood in 1970. Then two more houses, before we left the UK. We don't have outside photos of living in Junction Road, but we do have some pics of in the house and one of me in the back garden. Everything else is memories. I plan to go back to all the places I lived, as thus far I've only revisited the last house and school, in Sparkbrook (Golden Hillock School), since leaving the UK.
From Junction Road, the next house we moved to was in Yardley Wood ((where more memories of my childhood were created), but that's another story. Anyway, I'll stop here. Hope you find / found what you're looking for. I'd love some old photos, too.
I will eventually seek these kinds of things, myself
hi and welcome...would love to see any old photos you may have to add to this thread...I have just joined this forum, after looking up old places I used to live as a kid. We left the UK in June, 1977 (I was 14 at the time), but have been back and forth to both Birmingham and London (some family members live there) over the years.
One of the places we lived for a while was in a corner house - 34, Junction road. My mom's bedroom was above a hairdresser. House has now gone. It was on a corner, we were sandwiched in between two schools. I eventually left the infants and started in Watville (around the the other corner). If you turned to the right when coming out of the house, there was the infant school and at the end of that road was a railway / waste ground area where some of us often went to play-hang out.
We lived next door to a nice family (can't remember the parents by first name) and the son and daughter were named, Jane and Colin Griffith or Powell. I don't know why both names seem significant. I'll ask my mom, as she was friendly with the mother.I have lots of memories from living there, but probably wasting my time to say too much, here. I used to play with a few kids in area, but one in particular was an Indian girl called Indapal (not sure if that is spelled correctly).
This was in the last year or two of the 60s. We moved to Yardley Wood in 1970. Then two more houses, before we left the UK. We don't have outside photos of living in Junction Road, but we do have some pics of in the house and one of me in the back garden. Everything else is memories. I plan to go back to all the places I lived, as thus far I've only revisited the last house and school, in Sparkbrook (Golden Hillock School), since leaving the UK.
From Junction Road, the next house we moved to was in Yardley Wood ((where more memories of my childhood were created), but that's another story. Anyway, I'll stop here. Hope you find / found what you're looking for. I'd love some old photos, too.
I will eventually seek these kinds of things, myself
thanks.
lyn
BrumKidMemories25
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Hi Lyn ... I do plan to have a look for them. There is a cute one of my second youngest brother (as a baby-young toddler), sitting on a tilted chair, holding holding a toy draft. My mom also had one of me, (standing beside my youngest brother (who was in some kind of kiddy chair), which taken in our back yard, near the outside (our house didn't have an inside toilet) toilet. It's a bit blurry, but I was wearing this bathing suit I loved. Think they were kind of the rage for girls at the time. Navy, with red edging and a tiny white pleated skirt was attached to it (anybody remember those) ...Think it had 3 material buttons attached to chest area, in vertical direction. I haven't seen that photo in ages; even when looking through some of my mom's old photos some time back. I will ask her about that one, too.
In the meantime, I am very busy with some things, but will surely be back, and will have already looked for and taken a pic (on my phone) of whatever Looking back, I wish my mom had been a bit of a photo buff all through the years... We'd probably have lots from our times in each place we lived. :-/
In the meantime, you all take care.
Back soon
BrumKidMemories25
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Hi Sue
Did you ever walk from Watville road end, into Junction road (on the right-hand side)? If so, did you even notice a hairdresser on corner? If so, did you ever take note of what it was called? Either way, we lived in the house right next to that hairdresser.
I think it was anywhere from 1968-69, as we moved to Yardley Wood (not sure if it was in time for Christmas 69), or early 1970, but our first full year in Yardley Wood was definitely 1970. I remember when Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest (mom was watching it and she was happy, as she is Irish) and it was like we were only in our YW home a few months.
Regards!
BrumKidMemories25
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Sorry, *ever notice - not "even".