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demolision of 6 ways aston

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demolision of 6 ways aston..alma street to the left...1961 no wonder i have very limited memory of the area..i was only 8 when this pic was taken..could anyone tell me what was that building on the right of the pic...im lost now...
 
just consulted my map lynne...as said alma st on the left which finished at 6 ways island..victoria road behind the pic and lozells road straight ahead...i can just make out the church on lozells road...i think...
 
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Thanks Lyn, I'm with you now, the Church looked too far up Lozells Road but now realise how much land was taken for that island...
 
Thanks Lyn, I'm with you now, the Church looked too far up Lozells Road but now realise how much land was taken for that island...

it threw me for a bit lynne but yes its hard to believer how much of an area the island took up...im still wondering what that building to the right was though...
 
Lynn, asa far as l see it the building on the right is the bank which was on the corner of lozells rd and birchfield road......please correct me if i'm wrong....l can make out the picture ok maybe its because of my age....we won't go there ok...Brenda
 
hi brenda i was just about to post was it a bank..dont worry about your eyes i had to click on the pic to enlarge it lol...

lyn
 
'Twas the Municipal Bank. I remember seeing someone knocked down right outside it, in the dim and distant past when I was a nipper out with my mom. I hope he was all right!

Big Gee
 
thanks for the confirmation big gee..and yes i also hope the mom and young lad was ok...

lyn
 
There was a pub on the left of the photo at the top of Alma Street. Was it called the Dew Drop. I remember when they started pulling down all the houses going up Alma Street towards Six Ways not too long after the Council had spent a lot of money renovating them!
 
Lyn, the mom and young lad were my mother and me! The person who was knocked down was an elderly gent who I think had just come out of the bank. This was in the 1950's....mom would catch the No 5 to Six Ways to use that branch of the Municipal Bank rather than the nearer one in Perry Barr. Never knew why!

Big Gee
 
Does anyone remember a mother pushing a child in a pushchair and it rolled in front of a vehicle?. It was round about that time and Pete's mom saw it happen.
 
Lyn, the mom and young lad were my mother and me! The person who was knocked down was an elderly gent who I think had just come out of the bank. This was in the 1950's....mom would catch the No 5 to Six Ways to use that branch of the Municipal Bank rather than the nearer one in Perry Barr. Never knew why!

Big Gee

oops sorry big gee i misread your post...teach me not to rush..
 
There was a pub on the left of the photo at the top of Alma Street. Was it called the Dew Drop. I remember when they started pulling down all the houses going up Alma Street towards Six Ways not too long after the Council had spent a lot of money renovating them!


hi jenny..typical council...there is a pic of the dew drop inn on the forum somewhere....
 
I agree with Brenda that the building is a bank, but somehow I don't think it was the Municipal, as there was a Municipal Bank just past the Orient cinema. There was also a large National Westminster bank on the corner of Victoria Road/High Street. I think the bank in question was bombed during the war.
 
went out with a girl from alma st aston in early 60's name was brenda can't remember her surname, lived at No 16 I am sure, met at the Lacarno I think did't go out for long though, funny how a mention of something brings to mind other things.
paul
 
hi sylv;
yes it was the large westminster on the corner of victoria rd in a red brick bulding and there was a firm of solictores and accountants above the banking hall and there front door for the above company was in victoria rd and the banks exit and entrance was on the very corner of victoria rd at a angle
and incidencely we have disgussed this bank many times before about two or three years ago so there is alot of info; regarding this bank on our history back log on this forum ;
best wishes astonian
 
Hmmm....could've sworn it was a Municipal Bank, but it appears not. Mind, I was talking of a memory from nearly 60 years ago, and a lot of brain-cells have disappeared over that time. The accident witnessed by my mother and myself happened close to the zebra crossing on the right of the bank, which I think must be Birchfield Road.

Big Gee
 
Hi Big Gee,
I'm trying to remember how we used to drive cars over Six Ways - no give way road markings or traffic lights.
oldmohawk
 
Hi OM,

there are no traffic lights or road-signs now, and it's a nightmare, especially if you've come along Victoria Road and want to turn right onto the Birchfield Flyover. My dad's driving-method in the old days was probably the norm - just keep going where you want to go until something gets in your way and makes you stop.

Big Gee
 
Sylvia, not the Nat West, they did not come into being till early 60's when the National and Westminster and another Bank combined to become Nat West, it could have been the Westminster (my old bank) Eric
 
hi moss
nice to hear from you again;yes thats the bank sylv and myself are on about i lived about a one hundred yards from the bank
and the up stairs above the bankng hall was a firm called mitchells accountants and solicertors i used to go with a girl named carol whom worked for them as well thats was before i went out with mickys sister sheila many years ago when we was both young meaning you and my self
i am hoping to pop down to westeren soon so i will hope to see you down on he town take care moss best wishes alan ; astonian
 
Hi Alan
I am glad it was the bank you were talking of,but i am not the moss you are thinking of.I am mossg,i know there is a mossy and 2 or 3 maurice's.Maybe i should consider changing my user name as i am sure it must confuse many members.Moss.
 
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