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Sospiri I am puzzled, on this thread you are talking about 32 Guildford street but on the Guildford Street Lowell’s post #286 which was all new to me now (awful memory)!!! you talk about hous 32 court 14 Guildford Street. Is your memory as bad as mine or am I confused...

The top bit is probably Guildford Story bit the next bit down may be Lennox Street

An interesting section of a map from 1862 (ignore the blue dots) A Gower Street and Hospital Street but no Guildford Street yet (there may be bits)

Attached is scan of a late 19th century linen map. Unfortunately there is no date on the map but as Corporation Street is there replacing Lichfield Street in other parts of the map, it is probably 1890s. Notice the main Gower Street School is not there but the smal lone in Gower Street is. The...

Go to Furnace lane thread, post #93 you will see it on a map which also names ‘Clifford Drive” correctly as Gower Street https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/furnace-lane.38337/page-5#post-718359

There is no mystery here. The whole area was reconstructed at the end of th 60s. Street were recreated, new ones built although they did seem to do this using the sewage, electricity and gas layout without changing it too much. New street names were created, eg Guildford Drive, and I assume...

Three photos of Gower Street Infants from 1933 and 1934 with my middle sister (born 1927) on the left (with dark hair) and an older one, unknown date with my eldest sister on the left (born 1923)

That was later in the 40s I assume. It wasn’t the case when my sisters were there

It might have been called Gower Street Infant School

I think that is Gower Street Primary where my sisters went in the 20s and 30s

Do you have connection sospiri?

See posts #104 and #105 for related photos, including no 32 from the other direction down Geach Street

Sorry Lyn not sure what you meant by saying it was on the opposite corner - the left and right I was used was referring to the photos not the street. But fantastic that photo is 32 and it is exactly as I described. The Philips family lived at number 32 in the 40s and 50s That tree is...

The demolished building in the right photo was a pub bombed in the war. 32 I think was on the other corner but not seen in the left photo. I don’t remember ever seeing a photo. As I remember looking at that corner it ended thar row of houses on the Geach Street corner, then there was a garden...

Come on, New Meeting Street was the Stage Door Club

Post #561 I think you are right with the location. It is possible that it is the Sanders family in the 40s and 50s

I still have one of those tins. The clinic we went to was in Hunters Road off the end of Farm Street at Hockley Brook

Thanks all for clearing it up

Gosh, I never knew the chapel was gone before the houses and that is what puzzled me. I am quite familiar with that photo as my brother-in-law took it

Just found my copy of the second photo with a label. It is the corner of Farm Street and is dated 1967. I left Guildford Street 1963/4 so it had changed. When I made a visit around 1969ish most of the street had been demolished. Looking again at the second photo, the bar attached to the wall by...