Aldridge Road .

[Vivienne14]

That's interesting Eric. There's, what looks like, an electricity sub-station there now. Wonder if it's connected in any way ? Viv.

 

[Radiorails]

Post 564, of this thread, makes mention of a bunker:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/kingstanding.5028/page-29

 

[Eric Gibson]

That's Sutton Park Alan, opposite the Parson & Clark pub Streetly, at the junction with Chester Road, I worked at the garage 1950/51 just a short way from there, used to watch the red squirrels running along the Sutton Park fence while serving 'pool' petrol for 1/11d a gallon.

 

[oldMohawk]

Aldridge Road by Perry Barr Park Entrance. Unfortunately no date for the photo but obviously early. Church Road on the left and maybe the Old Boars Head Pub in the distance. Large telephone pole in the pic ...

 

[Ray Griffiths]

A Harpers bus on the Aldridge Road ... but this is the Aldridge Road in Streetly and is about a mile east of the Aldridge Road, Birmingham. The building on the left behind the bus is what was commonly known as a 'Tin Tabernacle' and is still there today but is currently occupied by a small printing company.
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These old buses remind me of the 5.18 pm dash out side GEC Witton works a number of harpers buses used to transport workers from the Staffordshire Area

 

[Barbara Tarbuck]

Sorry, I am doing this all wrong due to my limited IT skills. This is about wacadon dairies King standing branch. I do have more and am working on how to add them

 

[Barbara Tarbuck]

A Harpers bus on the Aldridge Road ... but this is the Aldridge Road in Streetly and is about a mile east of the Aldridge Road, Birmingham. The building on the left behind the bus is what was commonly known as a 'Tin Tabernacle' and is still there today but is currently occupied by a small printing company.
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Hello. I used to live in Crowsnest Dairy in Aldridge Rd Streetly in the 1950's. It was right opposite the Printing works. (it may have still been the tin tabernacle at that time. I lived there until I was 7 years old) We also lived in Foley Rd West. I used to catch the Harpers bus to school in Bloxwich in the early 60's Sorry if I have answered in the wrong place

 

[maxholm]

Nice pic, OM. I live very nearby and know the old 'tin tabernacle' very well. The land at the extreme left of the photo is now flattened out and is farm land (oil-seed rape, great for my hay-fever, I don't think). To the right of the photo, and not visible, would have been the old BIP factory. That bus looks like it's on its last legs....

G

I also lived close by, in Maxholm Road from around 1953 to 1970's , used the Harpers buses a lot, got a job in the city centre 1964 and used this bus to get me to Kingstanding. Growing up in Streetly, we used to sing at the tops of our voices as the conductor came round "You'll never get to heaven on a Harper's bus, cuz a Harper's bus, it never guz!", Happy days.

 

[Barbara Tarbuck]

great to have feed back about Aldridge rd. I left there when I was about 7 (1953....dont tell anyone!!) I (with my elder brother) used to walk from Kingstanding (we caught the bluebird bus) to Maryvale school, old Oscott Hill. It was a Roman Catholic school and I remember the little chapel and a teacher called Mrs or Miss Shearan along with Mrs Anderson/Anderton am Mrs Egan ( I was friendly with her daughter Elizabeth and went to a party at their house in Birchfield Rd) I was later to be a hairdresser at Maison Celeste on Birchfield Rd (in the 1960's) A lovely salon. we used to do back combing and beaufont hairstyles.......Mr Peter, Mr Michael, Miss Margery, (yes spelt like that) Miss Lousie, Miss Julie, Miss Pamela and many more.....of course I was a junior....Miss Barbara The owners were Mr and Mrs Holmes.........I hope I havent written this up before!!

 

[johnduffy]

Image #87 is of the Aldridge Road outside Perry Park entrance. Think it's two ladies and a man riding their bikes. Looks about 1920s. One of the cyclists could even have been my nan ! She lived a little further back up the road (on College Road) in one of the bungalows in the 1920s. Viv.

My Nanny & Grandad lived in one of the bungalows having moved down from Raglan Road Cape Hill I think it was late 1920 early 30s, no.37, I can remember the top deck of a tram in next doors garden that being used as a sun house early 1950, Mom her Sister & brother lived there prior to marrying they were the Parry’s originally Grandad came from Birkenhead, they moved to Penzance in later years, then grandad past away and now are both buried together in Witton Cemetery opposite Witton Lodge Rd.

 

[johnduffy]

That's interesting Eric. There's, what looks like, an electricity sub-station there now. Wonder if it's connected in any way ? Viv.

Yes Vivienne that’s the sub Stn. just before the Aldridge road junction & The Boar’Head, would probably be at the side of the motorway viaduct now, but as been there since I can remember, my grandad told me a few stories about around there when he used to be on air raid fire duty WW.2 where once stood a anti-aircraft battery.

 

[johnduffy]

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

Ansell’s Timber Merchants I remember it been in the late 1950s.
It was nearly opposite my old school Birchfield Road Boys.

 

[johnduffy]

I wouldn't be surprised in the houses on the right are still there but the wall, looks a little unsafe, it is well shored up so that has probably gone.

Yes they are still there, this being February 2025, though to the left of these properties as recently being cleared where Mellow Ware once stood and as for the property in question it as been built up to so looks as if things are safe for the time being.