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Church Road, Yardley.

bramcote said:
Hi there , does anyone remember a cottage called jasmine cottage in Yardley old village ?
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have you been through this thread from post 1 as there could be a photo of the cottage...i dont know over that way very well so do not know if its still there

lyn
 
There was a small garage and petrol pumps on Croft Road it is now the site of houses the garage i think must have been demolished in the late 1960s early 1970s there was also a small builders supplies merchant at the side of a house on Church Road on the junction with Croft Road.
 
mikejee said:
Yew tree house seems to have been no 116 church road.

1908 Samuel Kington Cattell
1912 Miss Cattell
1921 Thomas Downs
1932 – not mentioned
1940 Ernest David Freeman cycle dealer
In 1904 it seems to be outside the area covered by the directory, and is not listed
mike
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Hi, I know this post is old. By Ernest David Freeman was my uncle and his father David Ernest Freeman, my Great Grandfather started the cycle shop. If anyone has any photos or details of the shop, that would be fab. I understand it was in Yardley.
 
suemalings said:
Mother in Law's (Margaret Dawkins) father used to own the newsagent's at 212 Church Road. They also had the house on the corner of Church Road and Blakemere. I know the laundrette you mean, no they didn't own that but a member of the family worked there for years.

We bought 3 Wroxton Road in 1977 for £6000.00. It hadn't had anything done, although it had electricity, the original gas mantles where still there. Birmingham Council used to give a grant in the 70's for "repairs and renovations", so we were fortunate to be able to get new windows and a new roof. The dining room floor was quarry tiles but they all had to go and (a condition of the grant) a concrete floor laid. No central heating though, just an open fire in the "parlour"!
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I used to hang round with Martin Dawkins back in the 70’s.
 
Dave the cyclist said:
Just after the newsagents I think there was a hardware shop Holloways ? and a gents hairdressers and fruit and veg shop . I remember Prams n Things at the time there were still houses in between the shops at the Yew Tree mid sixties
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Dave the cyclist said:
Just after the newsagents I think there was a hardware shop Holloways ? and a gents hairdressers and fruit and veg shop . I remember Prams n Things at the time there were still houses in between the shops at the Yew Tree mid sixties
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I think the gents hairdressers was called Vaughns on the same side as Prams n Things was another gent hairdressers Vic Kents who also had a shop at the Wheatsheaf . A shoe shop Malones or Marlones an opticians right outside the number 15/16 bus stop. There was a greengrocers iam trying to rack my brains to think of the name but i think it began with the letter G .
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
I think the gents hairdressers was called Vaughns on the same side as Prams n Things was another gent hairdressers Vic Kents who also had a shop at the Wheatsheaf . A shoe shop Malones or Marlones an opticians right outside the number 15/16 bus stop. There was a greengrocers iam trying to rack my brains to think of the name but i think it began with the letter G .
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Mr Vaughn had a book to sign so when we had our split ends trimmed off we could sign to say we’d had our hair cut without losing too much length, he also dealt in antiques.
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
I think the gents hairdressers was called Vaughns on the same side as Prams n Things was another gent hairdressers Vic Kents who also had a shop at the Wheatsheaf . A shoe shop Malones or Marlones an opticians right outside the number 15/16 bus stop. There was a greengrocers iam trying to rack my brains to think of the name but i think it began with the letter G .
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I think the greengrocers was called Grenvilles with a butchers next door. Please correct me that iam not going mad but iam sure the floor of the butchers collapsed. .
 
Yes that's correct I can remember the floor of the butchers collapsing, from what I can remember customers were waiting to be served and the floor gave way and they fell into the cellar below, I had been sent on an errand to The Yew Tree shops and saw it first hand and remember the Birmingham Mail that night had the headlines "CUSTOMERS PLUNGE THROUGH FLOOR "
 
Dave the cyclist said:
Yes that's correct I can remember the floor of the butchers collapsing, from what I can remember customers were waiting to be served and the floor gave way and they fell into the cellar below, I had been sent on an errand to The Yew Tree shops and saw it first hand and remember the Birmingham Mail that night had the headlines "CUSTOMERS PLUNGE THROUGH FLOOR "
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wow...maybe one of our members could have a look for the newspaper article and post it...hope no one was hurt

lyn
 
Dave the cyclist said:
Yes that's correct I can remember the floor of the butchers collapsing, from what I can remember customers were waiting to be served and the floor gave way and they fell into the cellar below, I had been sent on an errand to The Yew Tree shops and saw it first hand and remember the Birmingham Mail that night had the headlines "CUSTOMERS PLUNGE THROUGH FLOOR "
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Many thanks for the reply shows i am not going mad .
 
Dave the cyclist said:
Just after the newsagents I think there was a hardware shop Holloways ? and a gents hairdressers and fruit and veg shop . I remember Prams n Things at the time there were still houses in between the shops at the Yew Tree mid sixties
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Dave the cyclist said:
Just after the newsagents I think there was a hardware shop Holloways ? and a gents hairdressers and fruit and veg shop . I remember Prams n Things at the time there were still houses in between the shops at the Yew Tree mid sixties
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After Mr Dawkins paper shop there were two houses (later knocked into one). Then there were just three more shops before the Yew Tree shopping centre past the laundry. Holloway's hardware shop, Mr Vaughn's gents' hairdresser and antique business and the Edmund's green grocers. I am the daughter of Mr Holloway and I grew up at the premises (number 206) so I know it intimately. All now converted back to houses which they were originally built as (although they now look different to what they would have done when built).
 
mikejee said:
Church Road Yardley, looking towards St. Edburgha c 1900-1905.
Also two threads combined

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Lovely to see this photo. Not one I have seen before. I believe the triangular tree in front of the Church tower is still there, if you look on Google Maps Streetview, although much bigger now. The area around the church has maintained much of its originality today as it was made into a conservation area and Church road was partially blocked off round about the '60s or '70s.

Behind the gap in the low wall on the left of the picture hides what used to be known locally as The field, opposite the park. This probably belonged to the farm opposite the church. When I was an infant there was always a donkey or a horse in it, awaiting admirers.

If my memory serves me correctly, in the '60s, before the conservation area, the council acquired the field and built a typically '60s style building which was an old people's home called Yardley Grange. That has now gone and as it was probably deemed to be a brownfield site, a developer has built a newish housing estate of small, vaguely neo Georgian style houses on it.

Going way back in my memory, the low level building beyond the field's wall used to be the village butcher. It didn't look quite like a shop but if I recall correctly, had a horizontally divided door which I assume, when the top half was open, served as a sort of counter. The building is still there but the old frontage has been rebuilt.

I remember that around 1960, the church celebrated its millennium and it was marked by a massive musical pageant in the park performed by all the girls of nearby Cockshot Hill school.
 
Many happy memories of Church Road ,family home was 312 we lived there from early 70s till early 80s my parents brought the house from my Dads Sister in Law . Nice to hear about Holloways Hardware shop Susan maybe you remember my two cousins Margret and Christine .
 
bigjohnuk said:
Hi, I know this post is old. By Ernest David Freeman was my uncle and his father David Ernest Freeman, my Great Grandfather started the cycle shop. If anyone has any photos or details of the shop, that would be fab. I understand it was in Yardley.
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Here it is today on Streetview in the centre of an area know as the Yew Tree (after a former pub and tree opposite).

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On the 1939 register are Ernest D b. 1907 and Eileen A Freeman b. 1910. His shop is a cycle and radio repair business.
 
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