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Aldridge Road .

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Would anyone be able to tell me whereabouts on Aldridge Road this picture was taken please ?
 

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Hello Topsy, I know someone who is interested in the Aldridge Road and immediate vicinity, he has given me this information for you.
This Bridge crosses the River Tame on the Aldridge Road quite close to Wickes I believe.
 
topsy what lovely pics...such a shame the georgan house with its gardens and underground passage was demolished...

lyn
 
Lyn, They are very interesting. I think Perry Pont was roughly where the Dairy was . I would loved to have seen it in it,s hey-day.
 
i agree topsy i thought it would have been roughly where the dairy was..i would love to have had a look at the underground passage lol

lyn
 
Me to lyn, I bet it was fasinating. To think i lived right by there for 18yrs and never knew it existed, only remember The Dairy.
 
A view of Aldridge Road just before the University was built. I think Alexander Stadium is to the left (top). Viv.ImageUploadedByTapatalk1333143397.477429.jpg
 
that photo interests me...the building on the left has garage written on it and what was that large building on the right it looks very significant..wonder if anyone can solve it
 
Eric Gibson said:
Buntings Garage was somewhere about there if I'm looking at it from the right angle.
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In the Seventies, Jack Bunting up and moved from Birmingham to Totnes, the garage there was mainly run by his son, But Jack in the way of many an older company owner would be on the forecourt usually in a brown cow gown painting the pumps. Luckily he had a well established relationship with the local Forward Trust area manager and we were introduced, but the rep' who walked up to Mr Bunting and asked in a superior finance company reps voice for the boss or any other more impolite description of the proprietor got very short shrift and once the deed had been done there was no way back. Jack Kershaw was the Forward Trust area manager and he was a Birmingham man
Bob Davis
 
Judging by the lamp standard near the garage suggests it is a major road; Walsall Road, Maybe?
 
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you could be right alan or maybe the aldridge road..dont really know which way i am looking to be honest...its that large building on the right thats bugging me

lyn
 
I would guess it's looking towards Aldridge Road, there are too many buildings in sight for it to be Walsall Road.
 
Buntings was on or near the corner of Wellhead Lane and Aldridge Road opposite to the Alexander Stadium (the original one) they were Austin agents, they went broke in the sixties I think.
 
Eric Gibson said:
Buntings was on or near the corner of Wellhead Lane and Aldridge Road opposite to the Alexander Stadium (the original one) they were Austin agents, they went broke in the sixties I think.
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He sold up and opened up in Totnes with his son, see post 543 above.
Bob
 
Two aerial views of the area ...
The first is dated 1950 and there appears to be a garage in the centre of the pic ... white building with a canopy (maybe added since prewar) in front but set back somewhat from Aldridge Rd. The large house bottom left has enough chimneys to match the building in the right of the original pic .... but other items seem hard to match ... enlarge the pic and scroll ...
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The second dated 1937 is from another direction and resolution is low ...
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from https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/christ-church-perry-barr.46014/#post-562538
both images from 'britainfromabove'

 
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From the map c 1950, the house with the chimneys seems to be the vicarage, and the Kellys shows Buntings shortly after the vicarage, with the building marked scale works being W.Downes & Co.

map c1950 area south of alexandra stadium.jpg Kellys 1950. start aldridge road.jpg
 
Today's maps show everything around Alexander stadium (now dog track) has gone since that time. I remember the stadium when it was still used as an athletics stadium. Must have been up until the 1970s ? Not exactly sure when it became a dog track. But wasn't there another track or stadium built in/near Perry Park after that ? Or maybe I imagined that. Viv.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Today's maps show everything around Alexander stadium (now dog track) has gone since that time. I remember the stadium when it was still used as an athletics stadium. Must have been up until the 1970s ? Not exactly sure when it became a dog track. But wasn't there another track or stadium built in/near Perry Park after that ? Or maybe I imagined that. Viv.
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Post 547 and oldm’s ariel view both show the old dog track and the sports stadium. The dog track moved to where it is situated today, being the sports stadium.

Somewhere there is a picture of the entrance to the old dog track leading down through the car park, and over a bridge on the river Tame.
 
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