Search results

The building on the right of this Brighton Road photo could be a pub (or premises suitable for later conversion to a pub) .... but I can't read the sign ??

boringmike …. The 2 pools were always open-plan in my day, during the 1960's. FYI Sparkhill Baths also had a café …. with hot Bovril, Cow & Gate, and wagon wheels (when they really were the size of wagon wheels!).

There were 2 pools in the old Sparkhill Baths …. here's a photo. It also shows the diving boards that were removed for health and safety reasons long before the old baths closed.

Ref Post #30 Great photo that I've not seen before. Although I think this "replacement photo" is more likely to be a view of the Stratford Road from the St Johns Road junction, looking away from town. The steam tram is parked outside the old tram building .... that was replaced by the current...

Thanks for the correction oldMohawk/Radiorails.

Ref oldMohawk's Post #965 …. I've previously seen that photo dated as 25 July 1883 which was the royal visit for the official opening of the General Hospital.

Great photos Two. I can't picture which part of the park is shown in #5 …. but it was a long time before my 1960's park-playing days. Any ideas ?

It's a while since I was in the park, but I believe the bandstand is still there. The pond was filled in and landscaped many years ago. During the sixties the park was very well used by local children …. football in winter, cricket in summer, tennis in the hard courts, smaller kids on the...

And here's a couple more. I'm surprised to see a swan in the pool …. I always remember it as a large paddling pool for kids, rather than a "wildlife" pond that other parks had.

This is a very old thread, but maybe we can re-start it with some old photos to jog memories. This is my favourite which came with a date of 1955. I lived in Thornhill Road as a lad and spent a large part of my childhood in Sparkhill Park. I remember that tree in the foreground …. it was a...

A copper on point duty at the Stratford Road / Walford Road junction.

Caggyken : sorry, I don't have a date for the picture above. But if I had to guess …. the lack of motor traffic, and the clothing on pedestrians, suggests 1930s to me.

Here's another interesting photo of Stratford Road in Sparkhill …. looking away from town, showing the scene outside the Council House. The wonderful lampposts are outside the main entrance, which later became the library entrance. . Dated as c1910.

Ref Stitcher's Post #6 (6 years ago!) …. Turner's seed shop was 2 doors up from Springfield Post Office. I remember going there to get dried peas for my spring-powered Skeedon gun in the 1960's. The shopkeeper wasn't keen on selling the peas to young oiks for playing, and I had to promise that I...

Ref my Post #359 : I believe the shelter was being installed after my grandad and family had been bombed out of another house 4 doors down. In that house they had used one of the metal table shelters inside the property. I suspect they were hoping for more protection by putting a shelter in the...

A hole dug to accommodate a garden air raid shelter in Thornhill Road, Sparkhill …. providing a temporary play area for my cousin.

The title of this thread refers to the Brighton Arms, Balsall Heath. That pub was near the other end of Brighton Road from the Brighton pub .... just past the railway bridge. Picture attached.

There's a grainy view of the Horse Shoe in 1952 on the excellent britainfromabove site .... https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW044054 Register to get the zoom facility. It's a rear/side view, but shows the building had been re-modelled prior to that date.

Definitely the Horse Shoe on Stratford Road, Hall Green. Attached is a picture of the school that used to stand nextdoor (on the corner of School Road) .... showing the Horse Shoe in the background.

Thanks to Birmingham Library for providing a better print of this view, with attached notes .... "Stratford Road corner of Stoney Lane. Photographed 1872. The house within the palings was occupied for many years by the late Mr. Simcox. Solicitor." Thomas Simcox, solicitor, is shown in the 1871...