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A couple more family shots with a Paddington Street connection. These were taken on the occasion of the Queens Coronation in 1953 and show some of my siblings enjoying the feast in Paddington Street, maybe Lyn would know which end of the street was taken over! At the table end on the right is my...

Hi Lyn, thanks to your photos of the Villa St/Hunters Vale corner I can now locate where this photo was taken as our maisonette was no 53 on the corner so the backdrop is 'The Vale' with the metal works behind the wall. It's my brother in the pram who was born in 1952 so this was probably...

Became Hawley's Dance School.

Steve, the clock is called a Bundy clock. Just on the right corner you can see the Crown Stores on the corner of Ledsam Street.

The Nags Head was further up Monument Road on the corner of Icknield Port Rd.

Hi Lyn, I've just purchased a photo taken from the air of Hockley in 1939 and I've attached a section where you can see the Flats in Villa Street newly built, occupied or not I don't know but it does mean that they were built earlier than we at first thought.

Hi Lyn, from the beginning around 1880 up to whenever the yard disappeared and was reduced to a bank which I guess to be around 1920 ish as my 1918 map shows it still a yard but my 1923 photo shows it as a bank. Colin

Many thanks Lyn, a very useful tool indeed and I'll certainly be using it in future. It's strange that my last 20 yrs at work was on the railways and I passed the bank many times, it is still there fenced off but overgrown and the row of sleepers supporting the bank are slowing breaking away...

Hi Lyn, thanks for your interest. Since I posted I have found some more info. My initial thoughts on the pork butcher idea have been blown out the water as I followed a wrong lead. On checking an old map of 1888 the shape of the bank is very different. I had assumed that it was always a bank but...

I remember 'ol' man Coleman' as we called him. Always standing in the doorway of his paraffin shop and chatting to passers by. Seem to remember he had a rather large stomach which stretched his braces. The outdoor was diagonally across from his shop on the corner of Shakespeare Rd and St Mark's...

Hi Lyn, yes I've enjoyed our trip down memory lane and have viewed some interesting pictures of familiar places. My Avatar is a photo of the railway 'grassy bank' , as we called it and where we played, that ran at the foot of my yard in Shakespeare Rd Ladywood which became my home after Villa St...

Hi, some additional details for this picture. The outdoor on the corner of Paddington and Guildford St was run by my Aunt (moms sister) from about 1939 until the late 50's, her name was Doris Flint who was a widower with two sons Fred and Ron. The lady holding my brother David Mytton is my...

Hi Lyn, no problem, I'll just post the family photo with as much detail as I can. Cheers, Colin

Hi Lyn, so glad this photo brought back some nice memories for you, here we go again with this small, small world:) I'll do my best to post it although I have to guess that the baby is my brother who is 2 years older, born 1952, as it's always thought to be him, I do know who is holding him and...

Hi Lyn, thanks for the guidance and a great photo of the outdoor. I can now see where this family picture was taken around 1954 in Paddington St with the lamp post and telegraph pole on the right visible. I'll check out the other streets also. Thanks, Colin

Hi Lyn, it is indeed a small world and an amazing link with Paddington St. I have to admit I don't use the site that often so am unsure how to find the picture you mentioned of Guildford St. My moms sister used to run the Three Horseshoes pub on the corner of Summer Lane and Cowper St from...

Hi Lyn, thanks for the additional info and details of your sad loss of grandparents at such a young age. My parents were rather old when I came along and in fact my dad was the same age as your nan, born 1908. Unfortunately I don't know exactly when we moved into no 53 but I assume it was when...

Hi Lyn, thanks so much as this is just what I was after. As the youngest of five I have no memory of Villa St. as we moved out in April 1956 when I was 20 months old. My parents married at the outbreak of war and by the end already had two children so I guess they were the first occupants...

Hi, I'm trying to find out when some buildings were built in Villa Street. They are what is known as the 'Flats' and they are between Farm Street and Hunters Vale and it is where I was born in the mid fifties. I would guess they were probably built post war and I would like find out any...

Hi all, I've just picked up on this thread and I thought you may find of interest a family connection to the Three Horse Shoes. My Aunt (Dorothy Flint) was the licensee in the late 1930's having been widowed in 1933 with two young boys to bring up and run the pub, her husband was Bertram Flint...