Clock Garage. Castle Bromwich

[valeboy]

I see the Clock Garage has now been demolished, it will take a fair time for the locals of the Castle Bromwich area to stop using it as a reference point when giving directions etc. It stood there for as long as I can remember.

 

[jennyann]

It's a sad fact valeboy. The Clock Garage was a key meet up place for so many people. Car rallies, cycle groups, etc. Hopefully, it will always be remembered.

 

[Alberta]

Terminus for BCT buses years ago, past that point you had to take a Midland Red.
I think that like many other places the area will be referred to by its old name,
the Clock.
I always call the junction of Chester Rd and Gravelly lane , the Pavilion and the Pavilion hasn't been there for donkeys years.

 

[terryb18]

The Clock Garage was where I bought my first decent car, a ford cortina £450 if I remember correctly, back in the 60's. As Alberta says, it will always be known as the Clock for years to come.

Terry

 

[Phil]

The clock garage being built and later in it's prime. I wonder what they are going to build there now?

 

[valeboy]

Great pictures, it is also interesting to see the Firs Estate being built in the background. It's been a bad week for old garages, the Saab Garage on Eachelhurst Road facing Pype Hayes Park was flattened this week, I think this was where the Number 66 Bus terminated.

 

[sylviasayers]

The actual Clock Garage is still in business, it is the adjoining property which was a Peugot and used car sales lot for many years that has been demolished.

 

[sistersue61]

They knocked that down quickly, when I went past 3 weeks ago, it was all boarded up and looked a sorry sight.
Have to agree, it will always be the Clock to me!
Sue

 

[dottieau]

Thank god it was still there when we visited in 2011 or I think we would still be trying to find our way round Birmingham.we were only trying to get from the air port to Acocks Green figure that out.

 

[Pete R]

Another bit of my personal history gone. Both the SAAB Garage & the Clock were landmarks. I was nearly in tears last week when I went to Cofton Hackett along the Bristol Rd, so many changes...........

 

[sistersue61]

Pete, the Bristol Road has changed beyond recognition round Rubery hasn't it? I learnt to drive up and down there, did my mental health placement at Rubery Hill, now I get lost there!
Sue

 

[valeboy]

It was great watching all the building going on during the 60s-early 70s, Roads, Housing etc, it seemed to stop late 70s with not much happening for three decades, we now seem to be entering an era of demolition. I suppose the 60s were the tail end of post war regeneration.

 

[mw0njm.]

clock castle brom

image William Dargue

 

[Janet Hunt]

clock castle brom

image William Dargue

This the the new garage: Still called Clock garage