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Balsall Heath.

My mum Lilian Pugh lived at 2 Kingsley Road in 1939, although I've had no luck finding pics of it for my family tree. They later moved to Milk Street, which I recall visiting as a child. Sitting on the pub step, crisps with blue bag of salt and a bottle of pop in hand, waiting for my grandad Alexander Pugh to come out (he loved a drink). So exciting for me simply because my dad wasn't a drinker!
 
pmc1947 said:
catherine

The alley in the foreground on the right is Bath Walk, a warren of industry in the 50's and 60's with another alley leading off it to George St. Have you any memories of the cake shop on the corner I think it was owned by someone called Packer, but I don't know if it was when this photo was taken. Do you still live in Cheddar Rd or have you moved on. Even so you should recognise a few places in these couple of photo's.

Phil
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Lovely picture of Edward Road,i lived there with my grandma,from 1972/1976,right opposite the chemists,and next to the car showroom on the corner of Mary St,and Edward Rd.
Her house was the first one that you can see after crossing over Mary Street on the right hand side.
The stairs were in front of you as you entered the front door,and two of the 3 bedrooms were above the showroom,one off,and one at the end of a passage along the front of the house(upstairs),the end bedroom would have been "on the corner" so to speak,part in Mary St,part in Edward Rd.
 
pmc1947 said:
Harley,

I remember the shop well, we used to go in there when we were about 15 and buy some of those long cigarettes that were about 10 inches long. They sold all sorts of exotic cigarettes there.

When you show your family the photo's show them this one of the Belgrave Public House on the corner. Such a shame they pulled it down, Its thirty years later and they still havent built on the site. Ask them if they remember Harold the gaffer there about 1966 not long before they blosed it.

Postied

Well done I remember that chimney stack well. I didn't think there would be much chance of getting a photo of anything else as Rylands took up most of the street (which is still there) and so was Rylands last time I was down there in a new factory now though.

pmc1947
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Did this pub later change names to the New Inns
 
Elizabeth

It has been a little while since I last looked in on this thread, But as far as I am aware the Belgrave was always called just that from the day it opened until the day it closed.

I think you may be mistaking it for another pub in the locality that was at another junction of the Moseley Rd that being Edward Rd. This pub called the New Inns once managed by ex Lord Mayoress Freda Cox is I believe still open.

Phil

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Yes thank you this is the one i was thinking of, but the other one was also on Moseley Rd is that correct
 
Hi Rod

Glad you enjoyed the photo of Edward Rd, here are a couple more. I'm only sorry I can't get nearer to your grandma's house for you.

Phil

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Yes Elizabeth,

The Belgrave was at the junction of Moseley Rd and Belgrave Rd a couple of doors away from The Moseley Cinema and the New Inns was at the junction of Moseley Rd and Edward Rd opposite The Imperial Cinema.

Phil
 
pmc1947 said:
Hi Rod

Glad you enjoyed the photo of Edward Rd, here are a couple more. I'm only sorry I can't get nearer to your grandma's house for you.

Phil
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Thanks for those,i still miss those days now,saw a lot of life,good and not so during my time living in Edward Rd,happy days for the most part.
 
My husband was born at 59 Highgate Road above a shop in 1946, which i think is Ballsall Heath,anybody know what the shop was or even got a photo
 
Hello Sandra yes that's it, and i think it went down to Stratford Rd,but it gets mixed up in my head,if you was there its easy but visualizing it is never the same,see now i am thinking was it that far along the Moseley Rd
 
mikejee said:
59 is just listed as Mrs dorothy emily Daniel, shopkeeper in both 1944 and 1949
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Thanks Mike,doesn't say what sort of shop,and Sandra it was like you said,over the lights under the bridge,i had a look at a map
Mike any photos anywhere that you know of
 
Hi Elizabeth

We always classed Highgate Rd as Sparkbrook, 59 was just down the road from the Talbot Inn that was on the corner of Larches St. I know that Mikejee has got a photo of the Printing shop at No 59. It was called the Provincial Press.

Phil
 
Thank you wasn't sure what area it would come under,i thought it would be nice to see a photo of where he was born,
 
Good job you are there Phil . I took so few of highgate st that i never imagined that one of them would be the one that was wanted. Had it labelled as 59 as well. Here it is around 1970-72

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That's great so hubby was maybe born in that upstairs room,they didn't stay there long after he was born so he has no real memory of it,they moved out to Sheldon,this is really lovely,thank you so much.
 
Elizabeth

At least they were nice and handy to the pawn shop which was what next door was until they became money lenders.

Phil
 
Have found the attached cutting describing the last (I think) of the old inhabitants of Conybere St from the Ev Mail 26.6.72
Mike

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Balsall Heath !

Does anybody out there remember the "powers" family who were born and bred in Balsall Heath my mom's name is Joan Powers she went to St Albans School with the playground on the roof !!! My nan was Nellie Powers she used to work in the Bull Ring selling flowers on the old ramp.

Would love t ohear from anyone and I can pass the details onto mom.

Thanks
 
Below is a cutting from 1978 describing memories of a grocers shop in Edward rd (it used to be called Edwardes St, which is probably why the author calls it that) in Balsall Heath. The only grocers shop listed in the road in 1938 under a female name was Mrs Emily Butler at no 210, close to the junction with Cannon hill Road
Mike

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Before anyone picks me up , i have altered my post above slightly to say what i meant !. It should have (and does now) read "the only grocers listed under a female name"
Mike
 
Mike

Its a pity the author gives no real insight into where the shop actually was located on Edward Rd. I might have known it. I picked up that cars now drive over where the yard was and that there is nothing where the shop once stood.

Which suggests that they have built a new road where the shop once stood. I don't know the area very well any more but they haven't changed the road layout very much over the years. Cobden Gardens springs to mind as the only new road off Edward Rd. That is between Mary St & Lincoln St, Do you think that this is a possibility.

Phil
 
Its very possible Phil, but, if so the shop doesn't seem to be listed between 1932 and 1939, as there are no grocers there then. Of course it might not have been listed. It might not really have really been a grocers either, just a little corner shop which seemed bigger & more important in the mind of a child.
Mike
 
As you say Mike it could have been almost anywhere, there certainly were enough shops of all sorts on Edward Rd. I only raised the point because in 1937 the grocers shop at 210 was listed to a Joseph Butler.

Phil
 
Phil
I chose 1938 at random, as being just before the war. Judging by the electoral roll her husband died . He is in in 1935 and not in in 1939. However looking at the 1944 directory , she is still there, but has gone by 1949. so it probably wasn't that shop, un less the writer wasn't quite accurate as to her giving up in 1939
Mike
 
I went to school in Hope Street,and lived just around the corner
 
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