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Dennis, you don't really live up (or down) to your description of a "Newbie", and you certainly could never be termed a "clod"; neither word would be apt for someone who obviously has a sincere, deep interest in the east of Birmingham. The treasure of photographs you've posted on this very...

Hello Phil, the photo I posted was thanks to Kevkonk, who found a stack of photographs in a skip, salvaged them and posted them on YouTube. I happened upon the "video" and posted it on this forum as "A Wealth of old Photographs of Birmingham" (or words to that effect) before finding out that we...

Dennis, in Post #202, you ask whether your contribution helps or not. It certainly does! Your having proven the shortening of Kenneth to the unusual Kenn clarifies the situation. Personally, I had never previously come across this unconventional abbreviated form of Kenneth. I had thought myself...

Many thanks, Phil, it certainly does! (pmc1947 eh? I was born that year too) So my memory isn't too bad! But does Kelly's occasionally make mistakes, or was your initial posting placing Harry Beardes at # 443 taken from an earlier edition? I remember when #449 wasn’t yet a turf accountant’s (as...

..... and again Postie's spot on. The shop opposite the greengrocer's was occupied by Roger, Mr Bruce, Snr's son. He sold records and had a very successful disco business after shop hours and at weekends. He loaded his turntables, amp, speakers and a heap of records into a large Ford estate car...

Excellent, Phil, I knew it wouldn't take long for you sharp-eyed, knowledgeable people to come up with the goods ....... Phil, could you possibly let me know what was on the other side of Bruce's? The house/shop numbers you have posted don't coincide with the photograph; Beardes was on the town...

Dr Ianto James was the official Royal Navy doctor in East Birmingham and any seaman who had been granted sick leave would have to be examined by Dr James before returning to duty or having his leave extended. He once told me that at a dinner party, he had got into conversation with a well-to-do...

You're absolutely right, Postie - but I knew you knew! Bruce's of Bordesley Green it is. Any suggestions for the other blanked out surname? David

..... as were the doctors; Doctors Bowen, Lloyd (beside the Victoria pub), Lloyd (Blake Lane), Lloyd (Grange Road/Green Lane), James and Benbow were all Welshmen. db84124 Old Boy, The photograph is as I remember it in the late '50s/early '60s, so a little later - and not between Carlton Road...

Could someone reinsert these very-well-know-locally surnames and give me the location of the shops? db84124

Max, the "gap" between the Victoria pub and other buildings on Bordesley Green which has been filled by the car wash was occupied by Dr Bowen's and Dr Jones's surgeries. It was never their house. This is historical fact, i.e. knowledge. David

Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly off thread. This...

Re: Bordesley green Good evening, Max, there certainly have been some cracking photographs posted on this thread during the last week (mainly thanks to Mr Williams) and the topic of the significance of the Bordesley Green Interchange 'statue' is fascinating ..... but we have all gone hopelessly...

Well, thank you very much, Maxwell, for pointing that out. My post was made to illustrate that the suggestion put forward in Post #165 was incorrect. db84124

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When I came across this thread quite by chance, I couldn't resist not reopening it with reminiscence of the past. In 1966, I was doing my first 6th form year at Bordesley Green Tech. still not really knowing what to do with my life. Food technology was in its infancy and - having done three...

Well I always wanted to be an engine driver. Not in the superficial, imaginative way of fellow schoolboys, but in the “it’s in my blood” tradition which had developed on both sides of my family. My maternal grandfather, Harry Worthington, took the “Cambrian Coast Express” between Aberystwyth and...

e) The bus's Fleet Number 4532 !!!! It was my ubiquitous PIN Number for many years !!! db84124;)

No, Dr Don Ellis was never a member of the practice mentioned in Post #148. I did say I was referring to the practice at the lower end of Blake Lane; there was a second partnership in Blake Lane, but it was between the Custard House - on the same side - and Yardley Green Road. I believe Dr Ellis...