Carrington Road / Dixon Road School

[Steveweston]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to track down some photos/street plans of Carrington Road to show my grandchildren. I lived at 5/27 Carrington Road 1955 to 1964 our house backed on to a back yard that was bordered by the Dixon Rd school wall. I attended Dixon Rd 1960 to 1964. My dad did part time work at the Pricnce Arthur pub which I think was at the Bordesley end of the street.
Thanks
Steve

 

[MWS]

Here's a couple of maps from 1950. The first showing your house and the school and the second a bit more of the area including the pub which is a little further away (top centre).





They are from here - https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/ - if you want to explore more of the area.

 

[Steveweston]

Thanks for these.

 

[lukodo56]

Here's a couple of maps from 1950. The first showing your house and the school and the second a bit more of the area including the pub which is a little further away (top centre).

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They are from here - https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/ - if you want to explore more of the area.

Hello, do you have any other photos of Carrington Road from the streets. My grandmother lived with her mother, Rose Ellen Russell, with her two brothers, Brian Russell, Maurice Russell and her sister, Muriel (Moose) Russell. My grandmothers name is Myrtle Ellen Darby (nee Russell) and they all lived in a small house on Carrington Road, and she went to Dixon Road School, if you have any photos it would be much appreciated.

 

[MWS]

I haven't seen any of Carrington Road unfortunately.

You might get a glimpse on aerial shots from Britain From Above etc.

 

[Cheeky71]

I have a photo taken from 1971 from the corner of Dixon Road and Arthur Street looking towards the railway bridge where Bolton Road met Bordesley Park Road, it was taken during the redevelopment of the area, on the left side of the photo you can see some houses still occupied this is what is left of Carrington Road, you see the road curving slightly to join Bordesley Park Road by the railway bank where all the old terraces and back to back houses have all been demolished, behind the houses on Carrington Road would be Dixon Road School and Cooksey Road (not seen on this photo) all this site in this photo would become Regents Park School in 1975 and where what is left of Carrington Road would be part of the new Regents Park School Playground and part of Sandfields Avenue and to the right part of Bassett Croft just off Arthur Street.

 

[Astoness]

I have a photo taken from 1971 from the corner of Dixon Road and Arthur Street looking towards the railway bridge where Bolton Road met Bordesley Park Road, it was taken during the redevelopment of the area, on the left side of the photo you can see some houses still occupied this is what is left of Carrington Road, you see the road curving slightly to join Bordesley Park Road by the railway bank where all the old terraces and back to back houses have all been demolished, behind the houses on Carrington Road would be Dixon Road School and Cooksey Road (not seen on this photo) all this site in this photo would become Regents Park School in 1975 and where what is left of Carrington Road would be part of the new Regents Park School Playground and part of Sandfields Avenue and to the right part of Bassett Croft just off Arthur Street.

thats a cracking photo thanks for posting it...i think the church in the distance is still there but right now i cant bring to mind the name of it...

lyn

 

[Cheeky71]

thats a cracking photo thanks for posting it...i think the church in the distance is still there but right now i cant bring to mind the name of it...

lyn

Hi Lyn, the old church you can see in the photo is Holy Trinity Church on Trinity Terrace and old Camp Hill, I am not certain but I think it’s still abandoned, I always found this place creepy as a young kid, it just looked the part of a Hammer film from the 1960s, but didn’t stop me looking at graves before they were dug up for the Sandy Lane dual carriage way redevelopment in the late 80s, but as I’m now older I appreciate the architecture of it, and feel sad that it’s been neglected as no one seems to know what do with it now, I really hope it doesn’t get demolished like the rest of Camp Hill.