Absolutly, there is only one Victoria Road as someone who lived there for years. They have destroyed it now but at least the two houses I lived in (as a child in one and as a teenager in my own flat later) are still there.Wales, the VICTORIA ROAD in Sutton Coldfield runs from the top of Lower Parade up by TRINITY CHURCH along to the bottom of Reddicap Hill,
The Pub at the crossroads of Victoria Road & Mill Street was known as THE KINGS ARMS.
You got Jennyann, it was the Buttery a great meeting place, the young people came from all over not just Sutton. I used to go to the Park as well & the fairground that was there.
I came to Canada with my Nan to visit her sister in 1962 and decided to stay, it was much easier then all I needed was a letter from my father to say I could as I wasn't 19yrs old and I was in.
I spent 3 years at the Town School (Victoria Rd)1950-53 came from Reddicap Infants and went on to Riland Bedford. Can anyone remember the Riland Bedford playing fields in those days we used to walk up the High St and pass through an old double gate just before B.Vs. Walk through a yard with old stables on each side this would then open out onto the field which is now the location of Sutton College. Dek
Hi Pipuk: Some confusion re the restaurants in Sutton Coldfield. The Snackery was in The Parade and in the l940's it was owned by Ronnie Hancox, a band leader. He had three restaurants in all I think. It may have been a den of iniquity..I don't know. The Buttery was on Birmingham Road just above the Sutton Cottage Hospital and is now an Indian restaurant or at least it was in 2009. You can read more about Ronnie Hancox and his restaurant at https://www.ronniehancox.co.uk/history.htm Ronnie lived in Sutton Coldfield and was very well known in those days.
Hello Baron, The lane is to the left of the large house/cottage which has been demolished and the vicarage nestles in behind but at the other end of the lane.
Hope you can understand what i mean, thank you for the memories...Cat