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Erdington

Hi Kevkonk: Do you think your friend meant the Erdington Market on Barnabas Road? They used to have wrestling matches there in the mid 1950's. Don't know much more about this though.
 
Erdington High Street was my old teenage stamping ground in the min 60's. I recall a coffee bar in a side road called the Pop Inn and also the Monday evening Youth Club in the rooms over the Co-Op. There was also a posh gents' outfitters which supplied school uniforms.
I have to say I met my first serious and long term girlfriend in Erdington High Street (sigh).
 
Hi Christopher: The only "posh" gents outfitters in Erdington High Street was Stanley James which was basically underneath Burton's
the Tailors next to George Mason's.
 
Thank you Jennyann. My parents were almost reduced to penury in that outfitters buying my school uniform and all the bits that went with it (gym kit, woodwork apron etc.). It was the only shop that stocked the uniform so I think there may have been a little profiteering.
 
jennyann said:
Hi Kevkonk: Do you think your friend meant the Erdington Market on Barnabas Road? They used to have wrestling matches there in the mid 1950's. Don't know much more about this though.
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More than likely


Christopher,' the woodwork apron ', that phrase just made me smile, I had forgotten about that, took me back a bit........
 
Has anyone else noticed that the large window posters of old Erdington have been removed from outside the Co-op supermarket?
It is part of a shop facelift, I wonder what has become of them?
I hope they will re emerge somewhere else near the High St.
 
Hi Folks;

It;s a great picture of Erdington High Street, But I think this picture is at the other end of High Street I think it is where Six ways is to-day the Queens Head pub/hotel has been rebuilt and the last time I was in Birmingham was burnt out shell.

If you look at the over tramcar wires they appear to sweep round from Birmingham and not terminate as they would have done at the other end of Erdington

Wood End Rd. is to left and Sutton New Rd and Reservoir Rd.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Ray
 
Frothblower said:
Just found this photo of Erdington High street.
Is it the village green side?
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Well I can make out Hazels (presumeably the funeral directors) on the right and something Hotel on the right closer to the camera (Swan Hotel maybe), still looking hard but can't be sure which end it is!
 
Hazels funeral directors was next to the ally which lead to Mother's night club in the 1970's. My sister worked at Foxy Lady boutique in the 1980's which was a couple of doors down from Hazels. I would agree this is the six ways end.
 
So are we looking towards the City (via Gravelly Hill Nth) with Reservoir Rd and Summer Rd on the right (pre Sutton New Rd?) and Wood End Rd on the left (where is Wood End Lane?). Would the large building in the distance be Highcroft perhaps?
 
What a great aerial photo of the Cincinatti Chris, with Woodlands Farm Road and Hansons Bridge Road and Plantsbrook Reservoir.
 
Frothblower mentioning his cycle accident reminds me of a similar experience during the summer holidays in about 1956 (I'd be 11) when I was zooming down Alleyne Road one morning, hit a brick, hurtled over the handlebars and came round to find myself being carried into someone's house by a milkman and a breadman and provided with a steaming hot cup of tea by the lady of the house before going on my way as if nothing had happened. Couldn't happen now. No breadmen, hardly any milkmen, the lady of the house would have been out at work - oh, and no-one would have time to help out anyway nowadays, would they!
Happy days!
 
Johnny Matthews said:
Frothblower mentioning his cycle accident reminds me of a similar experience during the summer holidays in about 1956 (I'd be 11) when I was zooming down Alleyne Road one morning, hit a brick, hurtled over the handlebars and came round to find myself being carried into someone's house by a milkman and a breadman and provided with a steaming hot cup of tea by the lady of the house before going on my way as if nothing had happened. Couldn't happen now. No breadmen, hardly any milkmen, the lady of the house would have been out at work - oh, and no-one would have time to help out anyway nowadays, would they!
Happy days!
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Good story Johnny.
Good old Alleyne road, I've whizzed down that road a few times on me 3 wheeler and goies.
 
If you leaves things lying about on public display, there's always some little light fingered tea leaf who'll have it away!

They will probably already be on e-bay at a knock off - sorry down price!

Brian
 
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