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1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

Pedrocut said:
My mother never went to Erdington, she always went up the village.
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Growing up in Erdington, we always "went up the village" too. Decades later when I was working in Kent and in a work meeting someone asked me where I came from. When I said Erdington he laughed and said Oh is that the place they call the village? That was the first time I'd ever realised that "going up the village" wasn't a completely normal thing to say.
 
JohnCCD said:
Growing up in Erdington, we always "went up the village" too. Decades later when I was working in Kent and in a work meeting someone asked me where I came from. When I said Erdington he laughed and said Oh is that the place they call the village? That was the first time I'd ever realised that "going up the village" wasn't a completely normal thing to say.
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The section, Hamstead Rd to Heathfield Rd (Lozelles Rd) was also known as the village.
 
JohnCCD said:
Growing up in Erdington, we always "went up the village" too. Decades later when I was working in Kent and in a work meeting someone asked me where I came from. When I said Erdington he laughed and said Oh is that the place they call the village? That was the first time I'd ever realised that "going up the village" wasn't a completely normal thing to say.
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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".
 
I seem to remember that, when I first came to Birmingham in 1967 and, for a few weeks, lodged in Alwold Road, the people i lodged with described Harborne as "the village"
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Today my sister leaves Erdington, my family came there 76 years ago, my sister is 80.
In the past my mom and my sister loved going along the village choosing goods from the many shops but the high street is now very unkempt and sadly my sister no longer feels safe and most of the much loved shops have closed down.
She is beginning her new life in North Staffordshire where we were born and hopefully where she feels happier.
 
Alberta said:
Today my sister leaves Erdington, my family came there 76 years ago, my sister is 80.
In the past my mom and my sister loved going along the village choosing goods from the many shops but the high street is now very unkempt and sadly my sister no longer feels safe and most of the much loved shops have closed down.
She is beginning her new life in North Staffordshire where we were born and hopefully where she feels happier.
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It is never the same going back, and unfortunately for all the wrong reasons, we wish her the very best!
 
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