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Church Road, Yardley.

ast, I never knew that there was a barber there before. I think the reason for that was from a very young age dad used to cut my brother's hair and mine so we never went to a barbers until late teens and so by that time Mr.Vaughan would have been in business. I don't know if you knew that he also bought secondhand furniture, had it renovated then sold it to the U.S.A, he bought my mothers when she decided to update.

Dave
 
Hi All,

I've been trying in vain for ages to find a photo of Church Road, Yardley from the 1950's. In particular a barbers shop owned by a George Stanley Hope. He was my great uncle and my father lived above the shop for his first few years before moving to Wroxton Road. Would love to find a photo of the shop to contribute to a history I am doing.

Here's hoping someone has one.

Al the best
 
Hi asl1078

You great uncles shop was at 204 Church Rd, this photo although taken in the 70's shows the shop, it being the last shop on the right hand side of the photo. It looks like your great uncle moved out sometime in the mid 50's but it continued as a hairdressers even though it has been converted back to a house today.
 

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Hi Phil,

Thanks so much for this. It was 204 you are right and he sold up around 1952 I think, moving to Kent to carry on until his retirement. According to the Kelly directory a Mr G.Vaughan carried on the trade then, and I think I can read Glynn in the shop window, though the surname is unreadable.

Thanks again

Adam
 
My family and I lived between the Carmelite Monastery (next to the Ring O Bells) and Blakesley Road - from 1965 until approximately ten years ago. The Yew Tree shopping centre (as we used to call it) was our regular haunt. I was a Woolies Girl during my school holidays - a time when I definitely picked up my addiction to Pick n Mix.

I was saddened to see that Rays Wallpaper shop has now closed. He would always give us his old wallpaper samples so we could cover our school books. Mine always had flock paper which looked great but the paper was so stiff you couldn't open your book.

I recall a shop on the corner of the TSB bank that was run by a lady called Noreen Elizabeth. She sold second hand designer clothes. My mom was as pleased as punch when she bought a suit that once belonged to Roger Moores wife. I'm sure it was only Noreens sales pitch that got mom to buy it and that it probably came from elsewhere. Nevertheless mom loved it so it was worth every penny.
 
Lived in this area for some twenty years so familiar with much that has been written. Used to travel on 15b bus then link up with 11 at the Yew Tree. My wife and her sister(Kirby was their maiden name) both went to Church Rd school(1948-51) I played cricket/tennis at Marlboro CC on Stoney Lane.(Dennis Ellis(of Ellis & Young estate agents) and Alan Pollard(of Pollard's Electrics opposite the Good Companions) and Blues goalie Gil Merrick played there at the same time. I remember the Ring'o Bells being run by a former Blues player, Len Boyd. I bought records from a small shop opposite the Causeway and booked our honeymoon at the travel agent on the left of Church Road just down from the Swan. And of course went to the Tivoli and drank in the Swan.
 
Was the travel agent Bill Simmonds? I lived near the Yew Tree in Hob Moor Road from 1940 until 1960, my parents lived there until 1967 when they retired to Gloucestershire. My sister was a teacher at Church Road School c1951-1953. Happy Days!
 
That sounds like the same one, for some reason (best known to my memory cells) I think it was number 72 Church Road. He also ran the newsagents next door, traded as W.T. Simmonds, sad to say he died at an early age of lung cancer. Amazing what odd information an old brain retains!
 
My Dad God bless him. Was a surveyor with John Briggs and Calder. They had an office at 18 Stoney Lane. Yardley. This would have been in the 1950s or so. I still have his business card. W.J.H Crump he went by Bert Crump. Anyone remember the office and what it is now? A.J.W Crump John Crump
 
Had a look on GooggleMap appears to be an accountants/auditors, sandwiched between two bookies(turf accountants).
 
Thanks Jim, The old grey matter is still alive. Happy memories living there for 23 yrs. top of Moat Lane use to be a bee keeper.
 
I remember that in 1940's the "School Board Man" who called to our homes to check on unauthorised absence from school lived at the top of Moat Lane. Are you aware that one of the pre-fabs from there is now one of the historical buildings in the Avoncroft Museum in Bromsgrove.
 
The "chippy" is more or less on the corner of Stoney Lane and Church Road opposite the "Yew Tree" pub ie. in the service road that is parallel to Stoney Lane.
 
In the early '50's the chippy was run by Mr & Mrs Yardley. They appeared to be a very pleasant elderly couple to me, I must have been all of 12 or 13 and went there every Friday evening after Guides for 3d of chips please! On the odd occasion I would be allowed to go rash and have a 4d portion.
 
A view of Church Road Yardley South. One of the two boys in the road seems to be wearing a cassock - a choirboy perhaps? Sorry, no date for the image. Viv.

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Help please. could someone point out what roads are in the above pic? Which is Church rd, what is the intersecting road. thanks
 
I understand that Church Rd towards the Yew Tree is opposite and Coventry Rd is left to right. I remember the buildings on the left of Church Rd. they were still there in 1960's maybe later. I suppose we could say that the picture was taken at the Swan island
 
Viv, If my memory serves me right, it was the chemist on the left hand corner and access to the other building behind the wall. The only thing is I always knew that as a hedge and not a wall because it was a spooky area and as a 10-12 year old I used to walk down there at night many times and the first shops dropped back from the footpath and I always visualised someone just at the end of the hedge waiting for me.
The two lads could be working in one of the shops, I wore a cassock when in Yardley Old Church choir and it went down to my shoes
Dave
 
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