Hi Topsy: As far as I can remember there was a cafe there called "The Buttery". It was a gathering place for young people in Sutton. It's an Indian restaurant now or at least it was three years ago. There are Thrift shops along there now, places where the helpers say Hello when I visit. An Iceland Store and the wonderful Jewellers next door to the Odeon is still there. I remember going to see "Exodus" in 1961 at the Odeon The film was so long that my bf and I were stranded as the buses to Erdington had stopped running by the time we came out. I had to phone my Dad to come and collect us! MY bf lived at Wylde Green so we would have had to walk.
Catkin, I think The Dog has had a couple of names of late. I waited for a bus to Town outside there and it was really in disgusting shape especially the pavements. I could have cried. Years ago we used to walk across Sutton Park on Sundays sometimes, up Park Road and into The Dog for a drink. It was a lovely warm friendly place.
Topsy, I live in Coquitlam above Maillardville, one mile from the Lougheed Mall. Have lived here for almost 30 years. Our neighbours in Erdington emigrated after WW2 to Vancouver and eventually ended up living in White Rock. My mother-in-law, who was English and a War Bride, came over to Canada in 1943 from England with her son, my husband and lived in White Rock, eventually coming back there for the last l5 years of her life. It's a beautiful place.