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Jean. Yes I has daily mail shoes. and my brother had the pullovers. and I vaugely remember standing in a queue up a spiral stair case [or was that a dream?] Miriam.
 
My sisters related tales of this! As for me I remember newspaper in my boots when standing of the terraces of St Andrews on a winters Saturday!
Jan
 
col h said:
Could it have been 'Mannys' middle one of three shops - nothing to do with packet of three- between Tilton Rd and Templefield St, on the same side ?

She used to sell 5 Park Drive for 10 1/2d (tenpence halfpenny, bloody computer wont do a half ) and there was a machine lower down that did 1d box of matches. I wouldnt have known about the other stuff she had on the shelf at that age.

There were at least half a dozen shops that sold sweets on Cattell rd, but thats the one I remember as being the dark and dingy one.
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Hi there,

Mrs Cunliffe's shop was certainly dark and dingy, but was further down, between Tilton Road and the Coventry Road, and from recollection, in the block of shops after the Blues entrance. Funny thing is, my mind is a blank on the shops you are talking about, although I do remember a radio repair shop on the corner of Tilton Road. I also remember Dolly's in Tilton Road, and Mr Kite's off licence on the corner of Templefield Street and Garrison Lane. This was in the late 1960's.

Kind regards

Dave
 
brummie nick said:
I do remember the shop in Cattell Road, nice old lady, always said "Much Obliged" when you paid ya money.

PS, I was only buying sweets, honest!!.
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Hi,

I would'nt have imagined for a moment that you would
have availed yourself of the 'other services'!!

Kind regards


Dave
 
Dave89 said:
Hi there,

Mrs Cunliffe's shop was certainly dark and dingy, but was further down, between Tilton Road and the Coventry Road, and from recollection, in the block of shops after the Blues entrance. Funny thing is, my mind is a blank on the shops you are talking about, although I do remember a radio repair shop on the corner of Tilton Road. I also remember Dolly's in Tilton Road, and Mr Kite's off licence on the corner of Templefield Street and Garrison Lane. This was in the late 1960's.

Kind regards

Dave
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up the hill from here then.
 
I remember the shop never thought she did much buisness do you remember the blues cafe and the fish shop just up from there then there was a coffee bar name escapes me we all used to go there for the juke box and to listen to the quatermass experience on the radio..oh happy days
Jean
 
there was also a record shop run by a guy called dennis skidmore, and at bottom of tilton rd was a sweet shop just opposite school.
 
Just up the hill from the chip shop, there was a barbers shop, think the name was Marlow, also a greengrocers, miss White, she used to make lovely troach and toffee apples.
 
Barbers name was Tommy Trinder............yeah honest !

Cant rememebr what the cafe was called, but there used to be a pink Cheverolet Impala parked outside, belonged to the owner I think.
 
There was a Trinders barbers shop, but that was on the other side on the road. almost opposite the old entrance to the 'Blues 'ground.
 
brummie nick said:
There was a Trinders barbers shop, but that was on the other side on the road. almost opposite the old entrance to the 'Blues 'ground.
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Sorry - thought that was the one you meant.

Only other one I remember was at the other end, by where the atlas garage used to be. Chip shop I remember was next to the Marquis. But I'm talking mid 60s
 
Hi Bernilew.

I went to the Victoria Street Baptist Street Church for 10 years. It definitely was not Elim. It was near the No. 8 bus stop and over the road was a dress maker who seemed to specialise in bridal wear. She used to make big ribbons with the left over satin which mum bought for my plaits and ringlets.

No. definately not Elim. I have no idea where the elim church was. Marie
 
Hi JohnT

I remember trhe guy on the corner of Bordesley Green and Victoria Street. I used to throw in a copper or two.

I also remember the herbalist in Muntz Street. Such a dark and mysterious place I used to go with my Mom. Oh I don't know what for. I do know my dad had some strange concoction for keeping his hair from showing grey. I expect it was for that. But the shop had a smell that one could never forget. Marie.
 
Hello Mariep i did say in an earlier post that i was wrong about the church so apologies and i remember the herbalist very dark and spooky Bernie
 
I used the Herbalist on the corner of Muntz Street and Grange Road (?). My son had a spotty face when he was about 15 and I bought some green gunge from there which helped clear them up, whereas everything else he tried had failed.
 
A Cherrywood search has brought me to this forum so I am hoping someone can help.

Recent information shared with me by someone from this forum tells me that a Alice Frances Cooper and her son George Edward lived at 365 Cherrywood Road from 1920 to 1935. I don't expect tgat anyone will remember them.

I searched on Google earth to see if I could find picture of their house. It appears it no longer exists. When I looked along the road there were many old houses but there also appears to be a train line or parking lot where the hosue may have existed.

Does anybody have information?
 
Hello ellis. I lived in Cheerywood Road until I was eight yrs. [bombed out] [1940 No. 322.

I cannot recall the names you mentioned but I was only a little 'gel'.

Good to talk to you. Miriam
 
mariep said:
Hi JohnT

I remember trhe guy on the corner of Bordesley Green and Victoria Street. I used to throw in a copper or two.

I also remember the herbalist in Muntz Street. Such a dark and mysterious place I used to go with my Mom. Oh I don't know what for. I do know my dad had some strange concoction for keeping his hair from showing grey. I expect it was for that. But the shop had a smell that one could never forget. Marie.
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Hi Marie,

Talking of Victoria Street do you remember the chap who used to be
seen at any time of day dancing on the corner opposite the Vine pub
back in the 1960's.

Kind regards

Dave
 
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Hi Mariap
do you remember Karen Richardson from bordesley green school she used to be frinds with maureen.
 
I too remember Bordesley Green though I lived in Bordesley Green East, Alston Road in fact. The Era cinema must have been the only cinema without a proper balcony.
Anyone remember going to the Custard House in Blake Lane - or was it Blakeland Street?? Large garden at the back with a mini theatre,
Rob
 
Hello everyone

I have been absent from this forum for a long time and it was great starting at the top and working through.

All the nostalgia came back.. As a Shropshire lass I never considered myself a Brummie, until I left. It was then I realised just how good a community it was to live in, at least Bordesley Green was. I expect there were less salubrious areas, which may have been a little hard to bear.

So many of the places mention I can remember. No one has mentioned the Dolls hospital which was a few doors up from the Herbalist.

I waited all throught the war years for a doll ( I'd only had tiny celluliod ones ). Finally I got one for Christmas, which was after I had been very ill with Jaundice. Mom who sitll had her groceries from a grocer in Sheldon where we used to live, because she had credit and always had to go back to pay the previous week. We had to run for the bus on Coventry Road and I was carrying my precious doll, but my legs were weak and I fell over and broke the feet of this doll. Then it was taken to the dolls hospital. The doll also had moulded 'hair' It was quite ugly really but to me it was beautiful So the dolls hospital put a wig on it for me as well as buildoing up the feet.

Not long after that my sister saved up enough out of her wages to pay Moms credit and from then on it was Crawfords.

Mom also worked in Braggs cake shop, I know she cleaned but I dont know whether she served as well. She was a very jolly person someone may rmember her. Miss Moore was the manageress and she always gave me a lemon curd to have with my cup of tea.

Another creapy shop was Nurses. Those funny out of date dummies in the window sporting hiddeous bras and corsets. She sold tape and linen buttons and collars and things. Mom left me in her care one day, Dont know where she went. But Mrs Nurse gave me a lot of buttoins to sort out. It was dark inside her parlour with a green baize cloth with tassels on the table and one on the mantel shelf.

In order to find a life that had some semblance my past I have retired to Corfu in Greece with my Husband. Here you become part of your neighbours family. They constantly offer gifts from their garden, I reciprocate with baking. Nothing is too much bother. And there is a curious combination of the way things used to be in our youth with modern conveniences. Its difficult to explain. The old ways are still around and its good I can remember what Mom used to do in certain circumstance. Modernisation has not altered their outlook on life, its as if they take them on board out of necessity,

I really would love to know what happened to John Yates and Kenny Slater. as a 7-8 year old I was very fond of those two. They once saved me from a fate I can olny image from two unsavoury boys at school.

Anyway more another day.

Names I am researching, Hood, Hands, Fellows, Watson

Bye for now Mariep
 
I used to live opposite direct coaches no 39 prince albert st
my dad used the the vic pub and the bookeis
i remember dr jones surgery thats when they knew you by name not a number does anyone remember the baby shop corner of carlton rs sold lovely baby dress s the shop tha sold all the wimsies
next to us in p albert st was gough s the people who had the wood yard
ad i think there was a plumber the other side
there ws a church the corner
 
Hello Alana I went to school with Peter Gough do you remember the name of the church someone on another thread looking for St Giles church and I can't remember the name of the one on the corner Bernie
 
I Also remember the Harrisons there were about 8 lads went to school with Melvin and Terry ,and sisters or twins from the outdoor in North Warwick Street one was named Angela Bernie
 
I remember Direct Coaches, had many a day trip with them in the 1950's-60's.
I lived in Alston Road and went to school there before going to Waverley Grammar which was on Camp Hill for the first three years then Waverley road.
My memory needs some help here as I am unsure which was Prince Albert Street.
With your back to the Broadway Pub and with Bordesley Green Girls School on the left, was it Marchmont Rd, then Blakeland St, then Prince Albert St, then Blake Lane?? Then I think came the Avenues, first to fourth I think??
The other side was Churchill Rd, Colonial Road, Pretoria Rd and again, memory fades - have I missed one??
I remember my mother going to a hairdressers on the corner of one of those roads, possibly Colonial - called Analise, she was I think Italian.
My aunt lived in Pretoria Rd. number 183 and it always seemed like a very long walk down that road for an 11 year old who had just got off a 53 or 54 bus near Fordrough Lane.
Rob
 
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