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Here is the garage as photographed on 10th August 1959 (from the Chris Barker Collection). I remember it, when Norman Bonner ran it:

A lot of the bigger retail shops closed down because increased rents and Council Tax charges, made them too costly to continue to run there and a lot moved on to retail parks instead. Online shopping also played a big part and in the case of smaller High Street shops, they faced stiff...

Sadly Sutton town centre has gone much the same way as Erdington has, it's just taken a few more years to get there. Tis the same in a lot of the areas that once contained thriving local shops, they are now unrecognisable, from what they once were. Such a shame.

Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier Kev, I have just re-read your post. The following proves that your memory was correct and confirms that there was a school on Egerton Road, this fellow Villa fan, remembers it being there and is now living on the site of what, until the mid 1980's, when it...

Got a text the other day along the lines of "Dad this is my new telephone number". No doubt the start of what would become a scam, because if he was going to change his number he would have telephoned me with the reason why and I had only spoken to him the day before. I told my wife about it and...

I agree 100% Richard, but going back does bring back some nice memories, if we are able to manage to put to one side, what we are looking at now.

Some photographs from yesterday's International Day of Birmingham 2025:

We watched a programme on Sky that Joe Lycett did about visiting all of the towns/cities in the world called Birmingham by bus earlier this year (they are mainly in the USA), which was called "Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham". It might still be available on "catch up", if so it is worth...

Erdington did have it's similarities... Great programme by the way. ;)

I hadn't heard it called "the village" until when I was 11 and at Slade Road School, my friend Ian told his Dad that we were "going up the village". He lived towards the top of Hillaries Road and I was on the Slade Road, we had always simply called it "Erdington".

It could also be a road off the High Street, such as York Road or Coton Lane. Shop fronts have changed so much over the past 100 years though.

The is described as a WW1 grocery shop and someone on Facebook has said H Sheppard had a grocery shop in Erdington. That might have been on the High Street or elsewhere in Erdington, I can't see anything else as yet.

I remember my Nan doing the ironing in the 60's, when I was a lad. She would put the iron on the gas stove and would then put a wet handkerchief over my school trousers to put a crease into them, I still recall the steam hissing. :)

Hope you had a nice one!

My first thought was the old Highcroft Hospital Nurses quarters on Fentham Road, which might tie in to the writing on the card @ #1 "this is the house I live in", if written by a nurse. The gate, trees and railings look right and many times as a boy, I've walked past this part of the former...

I wasn't. I didn't want to upset him in any possible way, in case he didn't come down my chimney, or heavens forbid, didn't give me the present that I had queued so patiently for. I was convinced that he would give the best presents, to the kids who were the best behaved and it wasn't a risk...

This one? I had one for my 7th Birthday. :grinning:

I think you will find that Santa brought your presents down the chimney on Christmas Eve, that's what I was told anyway... ;)

Something like this?

We used to pop in for a couple or more after Villa games 20-25 years ago, it was also often our first stop as we walked from the ground back into town. Carl Chinn was often holding court in the back lounge. Happy memories, sorry to see it's gone.