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Birchfield Road Perry Barr

Astoness said:
i could be wrong but i dont think i have seen this one before...i think it could be rare as it shows a photo of the properties on the side of birchfield road that are few and far between..also a map to go with it showing no 224 which was simpson and son fruiterers corner of heathfield road and birchfield road...caption says queueing up for potatoes...think they were scarce during ww1View attachment 209445

lyn

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Lynn are you on my FB History Group?
 
carolina said:
Thanks Lyn its just a few photos I have put recently on my group have appeared on here with the same info I put on mine.
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think photos get passed around carolina...i know that hundreds i have posted on the forum(many of which i own the copyright to) have been posted on facebook but i dont mind if it gives people pleasure i am happy to share and we never know what may turn up :) i am always on the lookout for anymore photos of your ford st...

lyn
 
Astoness said:
think photos get passed around carolina...i know that hundreds i have posted on the forum(many of which i own the copyright to) have been posted on facebook but i dont mind if it gives people pleasure i am happy to share and we never know what may turn up :) i am always on the lookout for anymore photos of your ford st...

lyn
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Thats fine Lyn I thought it was unusual as I remember you saying you werent on facebook, I think You probably have got all I had for Ford Street. I have this one which someone sent me which was our backyard at No 4 this was the lady who had it before us Mrs. Holder. 1758293184225.png
 
thanks for the photo carolina...if ok will post it on the ford st thread unless we have it...pretty sure ive got all the photos of ford st that you have but like i said im always on the lookout for any that you may not have...they are out there somewhere :)

lyn
 
Astoness said:
think photos get passed around carolina...i know that hundreds i have posted on the forum(many of which i own the copyright to) have been posted on facebook but i dont mind if it gives people pleasure i am happy to share and we never know what may turn up :) i am always on the lookout for anymore photos of your ford st...

lyn
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And where would we be without that willingness to share ? Time and time again we uncover more by reposting a previously seen image, especially on BHF where debate and further research is actively encouraged.
 
Astoness said:
thanks for the photo carolina...if ok will post it on the ford st thread unless we have it...pretty sure ive got all the photos of ford st that you have but like i said im always on the lookout for any that you may not have...they are out there somewhere :)

lyn
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Yes it's on the Ford Street thread Lyn, post #77.
 
Astoness said:
think photos get passed around carolina...i know that hundreds i have posted on the forum(many of which i own the copyright to) have been posted on facebook but i dont mind if it gives people pleasure i am happy to share and we never know what may turn up :) i am always on the lookout for anymore photos of your ford st...

lyn
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lyn, i think that is the way it should be particularly historical photos about regular people!
 
Barbara Tarbuck said:
I remember Birchfield Rd in the 60's. I used to work at Maison Celeste. A hairdressing salon. We used to play jokes on the new apprentices, sending them next door (a hardware shop, for a glass hammer or ' along weight' (wait!)) Further to the left was a cafe where we used to go for a lunch or mince pie (Byrons, I think it was called) To the right of the hairdressers was the cinema. One day I met a blind date there. I came across him on Radio Caroline. He was training to be a Doctor. John Cunningham....wonder if he ever made it! He took me to the YMCA and afterwards for a coffee.
On the opposite side of the road there was a butchers, a handbag shop ++ you had to use the underpass to get there.
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I used to go out with someone who lived round the corner from the cinema. It was 1967 and a wonderful summer!
 
Astoness said:
eastern side of birchfield road 1959..all gone now i think that could be birchfield school on the far left

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Ah yes, very familiar with that view!
My Junior School in the background on the left and the shop where my mother worked before she married, Mrs Wilks haberdashery, next to Dodds. I went in there with her many times when I was small.

I wonder who the car belonged to?!
 
Astoness said:
eastern side of birchfield road 1959..all gone now i think that could be birchfield school on the far left

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A Sparks said:
Ah yes, very familiar with that view!
My Junior School in the background on the left and the shop where my mother worked before she married, Mrs Wilks haberdashery, next to Dodds. I went in there with her many times when I was small.

I wonder who the car belonged to?!
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Great memories I’m sure!
 
mikejee said:
Wilkins was 359 birchfield road
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Thank you
mikejee said:
Wilkins was 359 birchfield road
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dennis said:
I got to know Birchfield Rd, quite well in the 40s
walked up and down there 100s of times trying to get ciggies
for the motley crew of builder's where I was employed as an apprentice.
Like Aston, I bought a lot of my tools from Dodd's and also
used to take the picks and crowbars to be sharpened
at the Blacksmith in Welling ton Road,also taking timesheets
to the offices at #316, just opposite the Odeon
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Dennis can you tell me if you remember anything about num142 birchfield road please I was born there in 51 and have been trying to find what it looked like can you help please
 
[email protected]. said:
Thank you


Dennis can you tell me if you remember anything about num142 birchfield road please I was born there in 51 and have been trying to find what it looked like can you help please
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Number 142 looks as if it was towards the Newtown/Lozells end of Birchfield Road.
There are no houses on that side of the road now for some distance, it's mainly green space.
At a guess I would say it was around where Wilson Road meets Birchfield Road?
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[email protected]. said:
That’s right Hatfield road can you tell me what the house looked like please can’t find any pictures of it
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I really don't know I'm afraid, although I would have travelled past on the bus into Town, I lived towards the Great Barr side of Perry Barr, I can't remember what that end looked like now.
Maybe someone else on the Forum can help?
 
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