Adderley Road Shops

[O.C.]

The old shops in Adderley Road Saltley 1930's

 

[sylviasayers]

Cromwell, I think the fruit shop to the right of the picture was still there in the 1950s, and the No.8 bus stopped outside, I lived in Small Heath in 1958 and when I was pregnant had a craving for apples and used to eat about 2 lbs a day, I can remember nipping off the bus or sending my husband into that shop for "my fix" while the bus was stationary. I believe there was a Bundy clock nearby.

 

[eileen]

Cromwell - that's a great picture of Adderley Road Shops and - Sylvia - a lovely story to go with it! Eileen

 

[Trebor]

Some of the shops I remember are, starting from the corner, Poynten's Dental Centre, Cafe owned by Brittan's, Savitard's? gents hairdressers, Hunt's greengrocers, Wrenson's grocers corner of Duddeston Mill Rd, and a tobacconist corner of Crawford Street.
Rita (trebor)

 

[mikejee]

Here is a view of the up Adderley road, with inner circle buses waiting

 

[Radiorails]

The bus on the right hand side of the photograph is a Leyland PD2/1, JOJ 133 - 2133. the first of fifty buses, bought in a hurry and consequently was an off-the peg design with a Leyland bodywork and not to the high specifications of BCT. They were slightly lower that the corporation buses, at that time. as such were used on the 2B route where there was a bridge in Dads Lane, Kings Heath which they would go beneath. They were allocated to Hockley garage but were to be found on all the routes that Hockley served: entering service 3/49, surviving with BCT until 1968.
The Bundy Clock, mentioned by Sylvia Sayers -post 2 of 2007 - is clearly visible.