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2/228 Winson Green Road
- Thread starter Deacon
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hi mike
many thanks for that info;so to my calulation 228 would have been the shops comining down winson green rd passing bryant street on your left coming down from dudley rdon the corner of that bryant street was a coffee house ran by a very nice polite and highly respectal west indian guy he was posh and educated and his dog was a boxer dog that always layed down on the step and very freindly dog
and as you continue to walk past there there was an army and navy store which had been there some time i think it was around that time give a year or two they closed down and then the car access; moved in and then there was the records shop
facing there ,there was colliss,s tv radio rentals which was on the corner of aberdeen street and from that corner walk up aberdeen street passing there long storage
ware house thats whee the house for aberdeen street started and the second house was sidney hansons house ex army man whom served as a cook in the t,a after service right up to is old age andsix more houses passing sids was the tustins hous
but any way getting back to those shops and house there is two family names that come to mind and thats was kellys family a round those backs house and i think it was a lad i knew whom worked there was an eddie burns a scottish lad whom i knew very well when the shop closed he got a job at the aluminuim die casters with me
down ickneild port rd facing dockers where our older kid worked for years
at this precice tim i cannot think of the familys that was there i can visulized
the lads but i just cannot put the names to the faces
i beleive there was a tommy rowe and his family was from there they later moved to cottage and alot of them moved to the south side of brum north field and weoly castle many thanks once again best wishes astonian ;;;
many thanks for that info;so to my calulation 228 would have been the shops comining down winson green rd passing bryant street on your left coming down from dudley rdon the corner of that bryant street was a coffee house ran by a very nice polite and highly respectal west indian guy he was posh and educated and his dog was a boxer dog that always layed down on the step and very freindly dog
and as you continue to walk past there there was an army and navy store which had been there some time i think it was around that time give a year or two they closed down and then the car access; moved in and then there was the records shop
facing there ,there was colliss,s tv radio rentals which was on the corner of aberdeen street and from that corner walk up aberdeen street passing there long storage
ware house thats whee the house for aberdeen street started and the second house was sidney hansons house ex army man whom served as a cook in the t,a after service right up to is old age andsix more houses passing sids was the tustins hous
but any way getting back to those shops and house there is two family names that come to mind and thats was kellys family a round those backs house and i think it was a lad i knew whom worked there was an eddie burns a scottish lad whom i knew very well when the shop closed he got a job at the aluminuim die casters with me
down ickneild port rd facing dockers where our older kid worked for years
at this precice tim i cannot think of the familys that was there i can visulized
the lads but i just cannot put the names to the faces
i beleive there was a tommy rowe and his family was from there they later moved to cottage and alot of them moved to the south side of brum north field and weoly castle many thanks once again best wishes astonian ;;;
Good grief guys !! All I remember was walking through an ally between two houses (but now I know they were shops). It was opposite Winson Green Prision and if you travelled in the direction from the Acorn PH towards Handsworth it would be the first alley on the left after the United Reformed Church.
I actually went to the Boys Brigade Company at the URC, the 39th.
Thanks for the posts.
Deacon
I actually went to the Boys Brigade Company at the URC, the 39th.
Thanks for the posts.
Deacon