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Erdington

Hi jennyann, thanks for trying to get a photo. I've tried since my initial post with no luck.
You mention there are so many photos of Erdington High Street around. I'd be interested in any of High Street around Coton Lane as I used to work at Houghton's the Gents Outfitters when I first left School, which was situated oposite Owen Owen (Previously Taylors) and would love to see a picture of the old shop.

I've posted a request in the photo's section.
Thanks
 
i lived in the main high street between 1950 and 1957 my parents were Hall and my Dad worked at the cinema. The only name I can remember is Colin Clements who would be about the same age as me 59.
 
I had 3 great aunts and an uncle that lived in new street i used to visit them in the early 1950's I cannot recall the surname at the moment their christian names were Ada, Gerty,Emily, and Wal.
 
I used to liveabove a coop shop, a sweet shop backed on to our back yard and I remember playing with dummy boxes of chocolates
 
Some more photos of Erdington at the request of Paul Higgins. Most of these will be around the Tyburn Rd and Pype Hayes area.

I'll start off with three local pubs, and two more of the cafe on another thread but from a different angle.

Phil

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Great pictures, Phil. especially the ones showing the old Apollo cinema that eventually made way for the Fine Fare (might have been Fayre?) supermarket.

Thanks for the Norton pic. took me some time to work out the Bagot. At first I thought it was Paget School, but instinct told me it wasn't.

Thanks again.
 
A few more, Pype Hayes Hall & Park, a couple of Fort Dunlop and one of Wheelwright Rd. I'll have a look for some more.

Derek

W, Grooms was in Ravenhurst St behind the Moseley Arms. He started up with ex army Bedford tippers just after the war. In the 50's and 60's he had quite a thriving business although he started out in rubbish removal he soon branched out into site clearance & demolition. A lot of my uncles worked for him and though the wages weren't very good it subsidised by having their own customers. All the drivers did it and Sid who ran the place knew all about it wasn't worried as long as they cleared their sheet for the day.

Phil

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Phil, once againg great pics. The one of the shops on Wheelwright Road makes me think that I might be having my hair cut in Lowes barbers, it's the last shop on the right. Also, when I was in my early teens I had a Saturday job at the Co-op butchers, just out of shot to the left.
 
Memories Memories. It was in front of that first papershop I fell off my bike and broke my arm, one cold wet and windy evening.I was about 9 or 10. I didn't tell me Mom till the next morning.
 
It hurt like hell.
I was too embarrassed to tell me mom I'd fell off me bike.
The bone was only broke half way. I had to wear a plaster for 6 weeks. The worst thing was, it was my left arm,I could still do my school work.
 
Yes, imagine suffering a broken arm all night. Well probably would have got a good hiding for falling off your bike in those days. What do you reckon Froth?

Loved the pics even though I was an Icknield St gal. It just makes me think of our England looking at those. I like how nice the curtains are done above the shops. These day's above shops look like Doss houses or worse.
 
maggs said:
Yes, imagine suffering a broken arm all night. Well probably would have got a good hiding for falling off your bike in those days. What do you reckon Froth?

Yer when I told her next morning, I thought she was going to break me other arm.
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Well Froth that sounds about right. That's the sort of thing that would have happened to me.
 
I can clearly remember the old open top trams running along Erdington High Street - before the new route along Sutton road. The trams used to run from Six Ways through "The Village" before rejoining the "old route" at the top uf Station road.
 
very easily confused, as most districts associate that term with 'gay' marches nowadays
maybe an opportunity to revise and freshen up the word used???
thinking positively
the world is their oyster...to use a creative description
e.g. 'Unite For Erdington' [or something much better than that]
 
Looks like Phil's #61 post has lost its pics. Here's one of the shops on Wheelwright Rd by the junction with Tyburn Rd. Not sure if that's the one he posted.
 
trying to remember if 'Harvey's' the watchmender, was on that stretch...my dad used to go to him...not sure if he was in Aston too, or something
 
Not sure about the street name but I have some old Brum maps that might help....I'll check and see what I can come up with.
 
Kevkonk - I looked at some old maps but it was difficult to see the orientation at the corner of Chester Rd and Orphanage Rd. I think the photo was probably taken from Silver Birch with Orphanage Rd crossing between the camera and the Orphanage. I believe the flat roofed house on the corner of Orphanage and Silver Birch is still there.
 
Re paul Higgins google earth - Many thanks - the 'age' in Orphange is my mother in laws house !

The shot is taken in Silver Birch Road, looking towards Orphanage Rd. Turn left for Chester road (with Josiah's head on the island - still with his father Xmas hat on!), turn right for Erdington.

Brian
 
Key Hill Brian- whoops! Google earth can be really useful at times. What a pity 'street view' isn't available in the area. I had a school mate who lived in Silver Birch Road. Can't remember the number, but his dad had suits of armour in his front room study. Nobody was allowed in! In his back garden we found a brick tunnel but his mom stopped us investigating. On reflection, since it had side tunnels, it could have been a disused Victorian sewer. Anybody know about tunnels/sewers in the area?
 
Beryl M, and Jennyman, I'm a fairly new member of B'ham History Forum and still finding my way around, I lived in Erdington for many years, and it was on buying our first house in Reservoir Road, in 1955 that I needed an extra job, as a part timer I became a 'doorman' at The Palace ballroom and was there for the next ten years, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, so we may have met. The dances were run by Harry Phillips, and the MC was a well known Birmingham councillor, Ald, Harry Watton, Harry Phillips always kept a small tin of scented 'cachous' and would offer them to any lad who smelt of 'booze', saying "I'm sure your young lady would prefer the smell of these!" The small orchestra that played there eventually had to give way to the '60s popularity of rock bands, different groups played the 'intermission' spot, the most famous of these --'Carl Wayne and the Vikings' Carl eventually married 'Miss Diane' of Crossroads fame. Don Clive
 
Hi Don: Thanks for posting your memories of living in Erdington and working at the Palace Ballroom. I walked all the way from
Six Ways Erdington up Reservoir Road and down to Stockland Green when I was visiting a few months ago to meet my friend at the Modern China Restaurant.
The lovely old Stockland Inn of years gone by. I couldn't say how many times I have done that walk in years gone by. You
must have seen a few sights Don when you were on duty at the Palace. Erdington High Street was a very different place back
in those days. Many lads didn't make it into the Ballroom until they had had several drinks in the High Street pubs. I remember
the tins of Parma Violets used as breath fresheners.
 
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