cope street
hi jackie
yes they was all back to back houses inand around cope street,
and aroundthe area , springfield street , stour st spring hill passage
and king edwards road , there was two king edwards rd , one small one
which was on the same block as cope st.
and the other one was on the oppersite side of cope st
which was shakespear st , saint marks st and king edwards road ,
which was on the other side of momument road
i can recall the name baldwins in cope st and the mousadales
and the jinks familys and the watking [wholly ] and the adams family
and many more ,to mention
there was a young man at the time whom made a film with to other kids
whom lived in springfield st ,it was about the kids of poor standing
and a gang of petty theives going around the area to survive
it was abit like the old cockney movie the dead end kids
they came to our school the movie producers and chosen a couple of lads
for the parts , the leading lads was alan coughmam , and billy cope
and the other lad was from cope street ,they had the little shop in cope street , at this precice time i can not recall his name it was a little shop selling news papers and bits and bobs, he was a little fat kid at the time
my best mate was a lad called tony memory , a fantascic lad
we done every thing together ,
sadly when tony got to the age of 16 years old ,
he bought a motor bike ,and one evening taking his girl friend home
he met with an accident with a car down waterlane small heath and died
yes jackie i have great memories of cope st and the surrounding streets
i would certanly like to know where these people of cope stand springfield st have got on in there live,s
by the way it was the late sixties before knocking down cope street
and not the fifties ihave said okay astonian