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hi joy ...here is a photo i believe of no 19 its the house with the flaking white brickwork over the door...to save us going further off topic could you post any further comments about nursery road on the nursery road thread please where you will also see i have posted quite a few of the old photos i have...click on below link and make sure you read from post 1 so that you do not miss anything...can you see the wooden telegraph pole in the photo ?well its still there so click on todays google street view below and you will see it..no 19 would have been just to the left of the pole..hope this helps
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lyn
Nursery Road lozells
I saw a photo of our house, which was built over the Villa St post office run by Mr and Mrs Reeves, and next door to Singl etons where they made packing crates. I can't find the photo but if anyone has this picture, I really would appreciate it being posted again.The name plate is also visible.
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My guess is this one is around 1930s/40s ?
its a long thread to go through viv but i think we already have this one...taken from nursery road end looking up towards wills street
lyn
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Not that I can see Lyn, been through the thread twice.
it was posted on post 148 by dave inston viv...lost during the forums hack i thought it had been reposted but obviously not but we have it now
lyn
Hi
In your last photograph the white building in the middle of the view back in the 40s was a plating and polishing shop, I don't remember if they did the pressings there as well, the stillages of scrap outside the door next to the grocery shop was normally full of cigarette cases and metal trays the sort of things they stood drink decanters on. Also there was a low wall round the place, obviously removed to facilitate off road parking. The paper shop a little further down would sell you an individual Woodbine or Park Drive cigarette, The grocers sold tea and sugar from tea chests sugar in blue paper bags weighed out in front of you.
At the end of brougham street on the other side of Nursery Rd was the stables for the railway on Iknield Street. The horses ans waggons would be parked at the ent of Brougham St. The horses would have a nose bag on the floor in front of them. then later on the little 3 wheeled Scamell trucks would be parked there.
Brian
In your last photograph the white building in the middle of the view back in the 40s was a plating and polishing shop, I don't remember if they did the pressings there as well, the stillages of scrap outside the door next to the grocery shop was normally full of cigarette cases and metal trays the sort of things they stood drink decanters on. Also there was a low wall round the place, obviously removed to facilitate off road parking. The paper shop a little further down would sell you an individual Woodbine or Park Drive cigarette, The grocers sold tea and sugar from tea chests sugar in blue paper bags weighed out in front of you.
At the end of brougham street on the other side of Nursery Rd was the stables for the railway on Iknield Street. The horses ans waggons would be parked at the ent of Brougham St. The horses would have a nose bag on the floor in front of them. then later on the little 3 wheeled Scamell trucks would be parked there.
Brian
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Hi Lyn
Yes I lived at 56 Brougham St, My imediate circle of friends was Irene Butler we were always together then John Beal, Rose (Mickie) leader, a lad who lived over the road next to the convent school whose name escapes me Angela Wooton, Laucen Bulevant he lived right at the Wills St. end, the other side of the entry from I think it was Mrs. Hands shop, I remember his dog Butch. The other side of the road was The Danish Bacon factory.
John Beal and myself were often in trouble the main trick was to go down to the Lucas factory Great Kings St. and scrounge coils of copper wire connect it to a door knocker then backwards and forwards across the road running it through as many door knockers as we could. then Knock the one door and run when they opened the door it knocked all the other doors as the wire snapped. I had the back of my legs warmed up a few times for that.
I was 8 in 1952 when we moved out to Great Barr and it was a very traumatic experience for me I went from St. Silas's to thr Aldridge Rd Juniour school I was used to a class size of about 12, to a class size of 32. An old school building with a little playground to a building that looked like a hospital with two playgrounds, but I survived and still here to tell the tale The reason I was at St. Silas's was I initially went to Anglesea St. school and we had a trip to Perry Barr park I was 5 so when I was pushed by one of the girls, so I pushed her, the problem was she had her back to the little river that ran through the park and she went home with very wet knickers plus shoes socks dress etc. My mother was summond to the school and I was expelled. An achievement at 5..
Did you live in Brougham St. I went back some years ago and thre only thing I recognised was a Hawthorn Tre that was in my next door neighbour's front garden, an old lady Nellie Potter
Brian
Yes I lived at 56 Brougham St, My imediate circle of friends was Irene Butler we were always together then John Beal, Rose (Mickie) leader, a lad who lived over the road next to the convent school whose name escapes me Angela Wooton, Laucen Bulevant he lived right at the Wills St. end, the other side of the entry from I think it was Mrs. Hands shop, I remember his dog Butch. The other side of the road was The Danish Bacon factory.
John Beal and myself were often in trouble the main trick was to go down to the Lucas factory Great Kings St. and scrounge coils of copper wire connect it to a door knocker then backwards and forwards across the road running it through as many door knockers as we could. then Knock the one door and run when they opened the door it knocked all the other doors as the wire snapped. I had the back of my legs warmed up a few times for that.
I was 8 in 1952 when we moved out to Great Barr and it was a very traumatic experience for me I went from St. Silas's to thr Aldridge Rd Juniour school I was used to a class size of about 12, to a class size of 32. An old school building with a little playground to a building that looked like a hospital with two playgrounds, but I survived and still here to tell the tale The reason I was at St. Silas's was I initially went to Anglesea St. school and we had a trip to Perry Barr park I was 5 so when I was pushed by one of the girls, so I pushed her, the problem was she had her back to the little river that ran through the park and she went home with very wet knickers plus shoes socks dress etc. My mother was summond to the school and I was expelled. An achievement at 5..
Did you live in Brougham St. I went back some years ago and thre only thing I recognised was a Hawthorn Tre that was in my next door neighbour's front garden, an old lady Nellie Potter
Brian