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    Stockland Green

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    Stockland Green

    "Feel" .
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    Stockland Green

    This is a great photo. I remember the terminus very well. In fact, I think that is the exact same tram station that has pride of place at the tram museum in Derbyshire. On an earlier post of mine I had wondered if the terminus was at Perry Common Road. I'm still curious about that place. I know...
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    Stockland Green

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    Tram Terminus at Stockland Green

    The Plaza Cinema had been a landmark for most of my life andif it is still standing, it still is a prominent building on the corner of Streetly Road and Marsh Lane.
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    Tram Terminus at Stockland Green

    Was the tram terminus at Stockland Green or was it down the hill at Perry Common Road?
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    Nechells Park Road

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    manor house nechells

    I read in a history of Aston that in the domesday book Aston was eastwards of a Manor House. Experts have ruled out that it wasn't Nechells Manor House. I didn't know Nechells did have a Manor House. Can anyone enlighten me on that? Moved post from another thread
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    Nechells Park Road

    I have written this to correct my error. There were two shops on the horse road owned by the Mansells. A grocery shop on the diagonal corner to the swimming baths and a wool shop on the corner of Butlin Street.
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    Nechells Park Road

    There were two shops on the horsevro wd owned by Mansells in the fifties. A grocery shop on the corner of Holborn Hill and
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    Nechells Park Road

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    High Park Street, Nechells

    That's what I said!
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    High Park Street, Nechells

    Thanks for the photos, retired layabout. I remember a bloke who regularly stood in the doorway of the pub collecting bits of money wrapped in notepaper on which was written the names of the horses various people thought would win the day's race meeting. It was illegal to bet in the fifties and...
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    St Clements School Nechells

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    High Park Street, Nechells

    I knew a Bob Steele at St Clement's. He was taller than me and had black hair. I last saw him behind the counter of a newsagent shop in Great Barr, Greenholme Road, if memory serves.
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    High Park Street, Nechells

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    Barker and Allen

    During the two years I worked at Barker and Allen's I was once asked to work a Saturday morning when all the rest of the workforce were on holiday. The reason for doing so was that I was small enough to get inside the boiler that faced the two furnaces in the big shop on Dudley Road. I had lots...
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    High Park Street, Nechells

    What was the name of the teacher that caned your brother?
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    High Park Street, Nechells

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    High Park Street, Nechells

    The nearest ground floor windows in this photo of St Clement's were those of the Head Office. Mrs Schofield was headmistress during my years at the school, 1949-1956. She always led morning assemblies in the upstairs junior hall in the far wing and then spent the rest of her time in the Head...
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