Acocks Green

[devonjim]

station road leading up to warwick road dated 1934..hope its a new one

View attachment 212373

New to me! Shops in Warwick Rd still there, I guess that would be the cinema,Picture Playhouse, last building on the right.

 

[Astoness]

New to me! Shops in Warwick Rd still there, I guess that would be the cinema, last building on the right.

thanks jim...i think its a charming old photo

lyn

 

[devonjim]

General view of Acocks Green village, Birmingham. 1928.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

View attachment 212353

These mounted photographs remind me of the shoothill collection. See Old Mohawks thread.

 

[Pedrocut]

King's Farm, Gospel Lane, Acocks Green, Birmingham creator: J.E. Hall. 1920.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

 

[Pedrocut]

Hazelwood Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham. 1931.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

 

[Pedrocut]

Interior view of Acocks Green Branch Library, Acocks Green, 1932.
The Lord Mayor (Alderman J.B. Burman) with the Chairman of the Public Libraries Committee (Alderman C. Lucas) in the lending department.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

 

[mw0njm.]

FRED COWEN OUTSIDE HIS CAFE - ACOCKS GREEN

 

[podgery]

Where in Acocks Green was this ?

 

[pjmburns]

In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.

 

[mw0njm.]

CHILDREN OF ACOCKS GREEN - BIRMINGHAM (1969

In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.

In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.

and i used it

 

[pjmburns]

In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.

In this block of shops

Street View of Shaws Amusements · Google Maps

13 Shirley Rd, Birmingham B27 7XU

www.google.com

 

[mw0njm.]

Fred's Cafe


This popular cafe on the Green was started by Fred Cowan Senior around 1920. The business was continued by his son, also Fred, from 1938, when his father died. Fred Senior also ran a football team, the Avondale Football Club, which played on fields behind the shop now occupied by Archbishop Ilsley Technology College. Bus staff were constant users of the cafe, filling their billy cans with tea. The business lasted until 1977, when an amusement arcade took over the shop and Pearce's next door.