Does anyone have any photos of Herbert Road as it once was? My great-grandmother lived there with her father, Thomas Ward, an iron moulder. So many places where my family lived have been bulldozed and replaced with industrial units, it'd be nice to get an idea of the place. Thank you!
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[264] Herbert Road small heath
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Thank you so much, it makes such a difference to be able to picture it!
Than
Thank you so much Lyn, really brings it to life. He worked at S.B. Whitfield at the Gladstone Works towards the end of his life - started out as an iron moulder (no surprise being from the Ironbridge Gorge originally) and then ended up doing wire work for the bedsteaders towards the end of his life - was unemployed in 1921 though. His wife died trying to give birth to their ninth child who was also lost during the birth and he was left to raise a lot of children with just the help of his eldest daughter, not an easy life by any means...
RobT
Acemeccanoman
There's a book about 13 Herbert Road
No.13 Herbert Road is an engaging autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in the back streets of Small Heath in Birmingham during the 1940s. Through fond recollections and amusing anecdotes, the reader is transported back to the often hard times experienced by many of the working classes in post-war Britain. It was an era of queuing in the exceptionally cruel winters of the 40s for rationed food and fuel, having shoes with holes in and making clandestine visits to the pawn broker. From the perspective of a child it was also a time of freedom and adventure, of playing on the Birmingham bombsites, go-carting, street parties and the joy and laughter that close friends and Family bring. With youthful excitement at glimpsing Winston Churchill and even more thrilling for a boy at that time Roy Rogers with Trigger, these are stories of a long-gone Birmingham to be treasured by all generations.
No.13 Herbert Road is an engaging autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in the back streets of Small Heath in Birmingham during the 1940s. Through fond recollections and amusing anecdotes, the reader is transported back to the often hard times experienced by many of the working classes in post-war Britain. It was an era of queuing in the exceptionally cruel winters of the 40s for rationed food and fuel, having shoes with holes in and making clandestine visits to the pawn broker. From the perspective of a child it was also a time of freedom and adventure, of playing on the Birmingham bombsites, go-carting, street parties and the joy and laughter that close friends and Family bring. With youthful excitement at glimpsing Winston Churchill and even more thrilling for a boy at that time Roy Rogers with Trigger, these are stories of a long-gone Birmingham to be treasured by all generations.
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Oh wow, I definitely wasn't expecting that!
RobT
Acemeccanoman
Photo apparently taken c.1910
These premises were the first Birmingham Co-operative Society shop in Small Heath, and opened in January 1882 to sell groceries. By 1886 when the road numbers were altered, and number 104 became 211, the Co-op had moved to a shop near the police station.
stephen dutton
proper brummie kid
thats not the herbert road in handsworth i lived in.........
