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Birchfield Road Perry Barr

Vivienne14 said:
Agree Richard, a pleasant shopping area. The biggest change must have been when the road was widened. It looks like there were entrances to houses on the left of the 1930s. These must have been swept away with the 1960s road widening development. Viv
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Yes, I remember the road widening so well, very messed up for a long time. I was serving my apprenticeship at Brooke Tool and sold my motorcycle (very quickly) in anticipation of immigrating to the US and had to take the bus from Villa Cross! I had to leave early so as not to be late for work.
 
Apparently i used to live at number 296 for the first few months of my life.

Would that property be at the city end of Birchfield Road or out towards Perry Barr?
 
Thank you both for the maps, i did venture that way many years ago on a family history jaunt but couldn't
find any trace of number 296.

Would have been nice to have seen the house.

Thanks again..
 
I don't know whether it'll be of any use, or interest, but in the 1970s we were told by our postie, that each of the three tower blocks on Birchfield Road had been assigned a street number - not that anyone ever used them - when they were built at the beginning of the 1960s. (We lived in Birchfield Tower.)
Calder Tower was no. 290 Birchfield Road, Birchfield Tower was no. 300 and Tweed Tower was number 316, Birchfield Road. I'd always assumed that the houses that were demolished to make way for the three blocks had previously had those street numbers. The map kindly provided by Mikejee does seem to bear this out....
 
Alf Rogers said:
I don't know whether it'll be of any use, or interest, but in the 1970s we were told by our postie, that each of the three tower blocks on Birchfield Road had been assigned a street number - not that anyone ever used them - when they were built at the beginning of the 1960s. (We lived in Birchfield Tower.)
Calder Tower was no. 290 Birchfield Road, Birchfield Tower was no. 300 and Tweed Tower was number 316, Birchfield Road. I'd always assumed that the houses that were demolished to make way for the three blocks had previously had those street numbers. The map kindly provided by Mikejee does seem to bear this out....
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I believe you are correct. Flats, tower blocks, maisonettes and other multiple occupancy buildings had one on the councils database for maintenance etc.
 
They used to be available on a website, but this now has stopped making them available. The nationallibrary of scotland has ones for london and parts of the south of england, but not yet available for birmingham
 
mikejee said:
They used to be available on a website, but this now has stopped making them available. The nationallibrary of scotland has ones for london and parts of the south of england, but not yet available for birmingham
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Thank you mikejee what i would give for a picture of 142 Birchfield road where i was born, everyone i have asked has no idea what it looked like.
 
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Thank you mikejee what i would give for a picture of 142 Birchfield road where i was born, everyone i have asked has no idea what it looked like.
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Here is a photo of Birchfield Road, numbers 148-172, taken in the 1960s, with Hatfield Road on the left. This is the closest I can find to your number 142, which must have been situated between the Hatfield Road & Salisbury Road junctions.
 

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Alf Rogers said:
Here is a photo of Birchfield Road, numbers 148-172, taken in the 1960s, with Hatfield Road on the left. This is the closest I can find to your number 142, which must have been situated between the Hatfield Road & Salisbury Road junctions.
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Thank you Alf Rogers for trying to find number 142 what a wonderful picture you found, What i would give to walk down that road all the history that has been lost.
 
Vivienne14 said:
This is Birchfield Road near Livingstone Road taken by Phyllis Nicklin. This section of Birchfield was very familiar having attended Enid Goodwin's dance studio in Livingstone in the 1960s. Viv.

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Sorry Vivienne 142 Birchfield Road is on the corner of Salisbury Road and Hatfield Road, Thank you very much for trying dont think i will ever find a photo. But got this from one of the photos on the site of my dad on the left crossing the the road that i have never seen before.
 

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A Sparks said:
Those flats were demolished some years ago now. I do remember them but not sure about the parking, I suspect not though, not so many people had cars when they were built in the 60's - perhaps someone else will know?
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i knew someone who lived in them pretty sure there was parking at the back..not many cars about when they were built but i bet it got a bit crowded as the years went by
 
A Sparks said:
Those flats were demolished some years ago now. I do remember them but not sure about the parking, I suspect not though, not so many people had cars when they were built in the 60's - perhaps someone else will know?
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Do you know by chance why they were demolished? Does not seen like they lasted very long!
 
As far as I remember there were no specific car parks for these flats. I had to visit a number of the flats up to 1992 as part of my job and often parked in nearby side roads to avoid the wrath of residents
 
I would say it is, yes.
The first picture shows my old junior school Birchfield Road in the background.
I believe the tram terminal was by the row of shops just past where the railway line goes underneath, the second photo shows the same pub on the right, The Crown and Cushion (the small Victorian one, not the big 1930s pub on the other side of the road, at the junction of Birchfield and Wellington Roads).
 
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