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There was a pub on the corner of Guildford Street and Geach Street. I did know the name but I am sorry I can't remember what it was. I only knew it as a bombed building (bombed during WW2) where me and my friends would explore; climbing across the beams in the remains of the first floor was fun

Here is a list on Ancestry from the electoral roll

Aston Workhouse - post #8 the bottom end if Lichfield Street (no longer there, see Lichfield Street thread) on the left hand side walking from town centre. My great great grandparents had a dye business across the road from there

I am always fascinated with the top end of Guildford Street; I lived at the bottom end. I think I had a mysterious dream about being at the top end once or twice and also later in my 20s, getting it mixed up with France. My first sort of girlfriend (I was about 10 so not really a girlfriend -...

On the corner of Geach Street, Guildford Street end there was a set of garage/sheds for horse carts. These were for either a local milk firm or bread firm can’t remember which. My brother worked all his life on a bread round mainly delivering in Handsworth. In the late 40s he delivered in...

Mid 1950s to early 1960s

My memory is still just as bad but I have just reread this and my bell is ringing with the name Carmen. Wasn’t Carmen a he. There was a group of transvestites who were not to be messed with who were regulars at the Trocadero; wasn’t Carmen part of that group?

Didn’t there used to be a pub in Lozells Road (which of course leads into Handsworth) called The Lozells, or more fully, The Lozells Inn?

Just added another story here about shopping near Guildford Street: Shopping Near Guildford Street

As a child in Guildford Street, his bedroom was above an empty shop. It had been a drapers, a grocers, a bakers and even a printers. But not for many years. Looking through his bedroom window, across the road were only houses. Around the corner in Farm Street, the shops were busy and thriving...

I have just posted one of my stories about Guildford Street here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/it-was-east-of-eden.51752/ There is also an earlier one here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/the-tree.2580/ Eden Place was across the road and a...

It was located on the East of Eden Place and I knew it for at least the first twenty years of my life and my family would have known it for at least forty years before; or at least since the time it was first came to be there. I don’t know when that was, and I never knew what it was used for...

Having been born over the road from Gina, but about 20 years before, and knew her next door neighbours well, I can highly recommend both books, both terrific reads and capture the time and street very well. The second book is set around the time I left Guildford Street, 1964 and I left...

Good to hear from you Gina, awful to learn that you caught the virus, hope you are fully recovered. Look forward to the next book although I had left Birmingham by about 1967. But many of my family we’re still there. I must have been about 7 when I had my tonsils done

Just finished reading Tales from Guildford Street by Emelia Williams (Gina). A terrific read for someone who lived over the road from her and was friends with her next-door neighbours. Amazing amount of unexpected memory triggers; Castle Vale – as a student I worked there in my holidays when it...

i don’t know of any coffee shops in bookshops in the 50s. The first bookshop I ever saw with one in the early 60s was in Amsterdam. I never saw Hudsons after the mid 60s and I can only remember one in London but I think there were a couple more

I visited the Garrison quite often. My sister and her husband lived nearby in Barwell Road where they bought their first house for £300 pounds. He did have his own business As an electrical engineer.

Agree

The same shoes but a different term I believe

My hair is a bit ginger; anyway, everything was black and white in those days