I didn't live in Dovedale Road but I knew the area well in the late 1940's and early 1950s because my Nan lived in Broomhill Road. A couple of pics below ...I lived in Dovedale Road from 1955-1981.
Just wondering if ANYONE else on here did.......or the surrounding area.
Roy Wood's girlfriend was Maureen Holmes.If I remember correctly, Roy Wood's girlfriend in the late 60's was called Maureen and she used to work in a shoe shop in Lynton Square, Perry Barr (where the One Stop shopping centre is now).
Sounds like my mate Ernie Marsdon worked at Electric Avenue and Stockland Garage on the petrol pumps part time. Moved to Hampstead where he kept all manner of animals, one Christmas he gave me a duck which was beautiful. Drove a mini van and trailer made up of the back end of a scrap minivan. He also was a bouncer at the queens in Erdington. Great bloke.Capilano Rd, so right next to it.
Half of Dovedale Rd seems to have disappeared now compared to how I remember it. I remember somebody had a goat in their front garden.
Great PictureMy father used to drive down Dovedale Road every morning and back in the evening, in his van (with my mother and myself in it) travelling between our home and our shop. I always remember one of the first houses on the right (as we turned into Dovedale Road from Perry Common Road) had a V for Victory painted on it's side wall.
Around 1967 I was a kid playing outside the chippy on the Ring in Perry Common. A jeep pulled up alongside us with four long haired men, my mate recognised them first, it was The Move group with Roy Wood. They visited the women’s hairdresser who was his sister?Roy Wood's girlfriend was Maureen Holmes.
Around 1967 I was a kid playing outside the chippy on the Ring in Perry Common. A jeep pulled up alongside us with four long haired men, my mate recognised them first, it was The Move group with Roy Wood. They visited the women’s hairdresser who was his sister?
We asked for autographs and they said they had no paper so we all got old fag packets that were lying about on the floor, and got them to sign the inside clear part. They were very friendly and chatted about their new record, I think it was Fire Brigade.
From 2007Great Picture
I used to walk past that house coming and going from school in the 60s.