Hi Fashionz
Is your mom's name Betty (Elsie) and lives just below Hall Road?
Hi
Thats a lovely clear photo and brings back so many memories. I remember the bank being there. Thank you
Bobbygee
Thanks for posting the great picture of the Alum Rock taken from the 'Gate'.
Much to my amazement I feel sure the two gentlemen stood in the arched doorway of the bank are my father and uncle (Dad lived in George Arthur Road). I have independently asked both my wife and bother if they recognise anyone in the photo and they too have picked out them both. I will add this to my treasured collection of photo's of the old Alum Rock/Saltley.
One photo I would dearly love is of St. Saviour's C of E junior school (opposite George Arthur Rd) taken around the 1940's/50's when it was an old Victorian building, is there anyone out there who can oblige?
Thanks again Bobbygee
Another photo of Alum Rock Rd, this one is from the 1960's.
Phil
Do you remember the Dolls Hospital? It was just before Naseby Road walking up from The Rock
Roy,
Ted Haynes also had a large double-fronted shop on Alum Rock Road near to the Capitol Cinema. We had a shop almost opposite and, as a boy, I was always being sent across to Haynes' for some item of fruit or veg.
It used to amuse me that the staff had a way of referring to their fruit and veg by pronouncing them backwards - "A couple of sananab, sir?" or "Have you seen our fresh segnaro?"
I also remember that they had another branch at Kitts Green at the top of Mackadown Lane.
Hi
Yes The shop that stands on a Bob was great, sold all sorts didnt it? Do you also remember Zissmans mens shop just up from May Mitchells wool shop before the Methodist Church.
I too used to go in Fowlers to buy my records but mainly to listen to them!
Did you go to Staffords to have your hair cut, or Mr. Lowe the barber by Reginald Road.
WendyP
My Mom used to go to Jester's to buy broken biscuits from the tins - we could get lots for our money. My uncle used to say if they have run out, ask them to break somemore!Hi, I remember Jester's the Grocers, it was on the corner of Gowan Road. It was opposite the Rock Public House.
I wanted to do some wood modelling when I was about ten and went into Armstrong's without any real idea of what I wanted to make, so I asked for "some wood". Mr Armstrong spent ages helping me plan the project and cutting wood for it. Try that in Homebase!The Tropmans photo.... on the opposite side to the café on the corner of Clodeshall Road, there was Armstrong's tool shop with timber yard at the back and an extension builders yard across the road next to said café. They were a true family business; Bob Armstrong's missus ran the shop while he and his three sons did the donkey work in the builders' and timber yard.
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