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Sorry for the confusion Terrypin,I meant to put Gardners milk BAR just up from Burtons menswear,we saw it on your great video.
My mother used to take me shopping on a saturday, always stopped there and had a milkshake and toast in the 50's.
I remember the High St very well.
 
jennyann said:
Hi Alberta: I am so glad that you remember Dick's in the High Street. The only other person other than locals of my era who knew about Dick's was a
lady whom I met here in Vancouver when we had a mini Fentham Girls reunion with four of us who had come together through the Internet after our Centenary Reunion at Sutton Town Hall in April 2004 which I was lucky enough to attend. Beryl lived in Reservoir Road across from the Cottage Homes and went to the National School located in the High Street. Beryl's Aunt and Uncle were Manager's of a club located close to the Pavillion Cinema at Wylde Green, called the Anstey Club. The Club used to order all their cakes from Dick's which were served at dinners and dances, etc. The quality was excellent if I remember....Cream Horns and Merangues were my favourite.

The Coffee Bar that you have mentioned was called El Toro and it came
into being after the expresso coffee bars in town got going. They have been mentioned on this site before. It was very close to the Church House and the Dolcis shoe shop. It was always a squeeze to get in there. Basically, it was a residential house that had been converted. The coffee was 9d per cup and was made in the traditional espresso machines.
We all thought it was a very special scene. The music came from
a juke box which played all the hits of the time. There was an upstairs
area as well. One night in l958 I met my first serious boyfriend in there and we went out for four years. Lovely memories Alberta.
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Hi Jennyann,

I know this quote is from a while ago but I'm very interested to hear any more you know about the Anstey Club. I live quite close to where the Pavilion used to be and we're getting together all the local history of this area which we tend to call 'Little Boldmere'. I went to the cinema and the bowling alley before they were demolished to make way for housing.

By the way, my husband's Nan worked at Dicks in Erdington, probably in the 1950's.

Also I was at Erdington Grammar 1958-1963. Where you there then? (or am I confusing my quotes and should be asking Alberta?) Do you remember Miss Mole, Miss Gawley, Miss Bushrod? I still see some of my friends and we were saying how old these teachers seemed and yet they must've retired at 60 so were far younger than we are now. How times change!
 
Slightly off topic!, can anyone remember a model shop down new street road Erdington bottom of the ramp to Wilton market in the 70's? Please
john
 
Hi I used buy models from a shop in new St Erdington in the 70's was at the bottom of the ramp to Wilton market anyone remember this shop PLEASE? Also there was a shop on tyburn road that used to sell models too?
thank you
john
mazbeth said:
Thanks Jenny O0

I've been Googling for ages to try to find out what happened to Jim Davis (and his family) and Jim Davis Models that was at Stockland Green, but can't find anything.

The reason being that when I left school in July '75 I got a job at The Gift Shop, Stockland Green, and then the next door Toyland which were both owned by him and his family.
His mom, then in her 70's was the manageress over me.
He also had his Model Shop (for model airplanes, and maybe railway engines) over the road.
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Sorry I have taken a while to reply,I remember Stockland Green very well,I worked at Sheena's Hair Salon on Slade Road for 4 years in the '60's.The model shop was up from the Plaza cinema,now a bingo hall.I know a lot about modelling as my husband's a modeller.
I don't recall a model shop by Wilton Market. I revisited Erdington 10 years ago,went in the market then.First time we'd seen a green sheepskin.All the ones we grow are white(with the occasional black one).Erdington has changed a lot from the 60's & 70's,looked on Google Earth and saw the market has been knocked down and rebuilt,looks better.
Nice to look back on this forum too.
Ann.
 
Re post 257 & 258
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Looking towards Stockland Green.
Hunton Hill is on the right.
Date is pre 1910
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At the top of Slade road near Stockland Green were tall railings which were part of Highcroft hospital. Quite often there would be patients sticking their arms thru the railings & almost begging you to run to the shop opposite & get them some baccy or ciggies. I wonder if anyone ever took the money off them & did a runner. Hope not. I loved Slade road. Went to Slade school, Drank in the Brookvale pub, Pumped money into the cafe jukebox next to the pub & courted a girl there, Bliss.
 
The Manor House of Pype also known as Pype Orchard and Wood End House, was built about 1600 and later became the home of the Holden family. The house was demolished about 1932. With thanks to Warwickshire Photographic Survey project.



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Three early photos of Terrys Lane which I am reliably informed was later renamed Eachelhurst Rd. The photos were all taken from roughly the same spot show a large house in the background. I'm assuming that this large house was The Woodlands which was near to the junction of Woodlands Farm Rd, unless of course anyone knows better.
 

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6 ways Erdington.
I remember the old shops on the left, they were much better then the building there now and I usually like modern buildings.
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I have the photo's of Terry's Lane Phil, in a book called Erdington Past and Present published by Birmingham Libraries. They were taken by Sir Benjamin Stone in about 1890.
 
Old cottages on the corner of Court Lane and Shortheath Road, Erdington. Demolished in 1904. With thanks to Warwickshire Photographic Surrvey.




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Erdington Open Market in 1929, has anyone got an idea where it was located and when did it close down?
 

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It was opposite where it is now in Barnabas road, where the Charlie Hall pub is now. Don't know when it closed.
 
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There used to be a large house on the corner where Hanson's Bridge Road meets Eachelhurst Road. It must have been demolished in the Sixties. I can just remember it, I think there are some flats there now.
By the way, am I the only person that calls it THE Eachelhurst Road? My wife said why don't I just call it Eachelhurst Road and drop the THE.
 
G G Jean said:
Will take a look next week hansonbridge when we take our dog back to the vets. Jean.
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Hi Jean, thank's for replying to my note. I don't think there is anything left of the old house. As you look up Hanson's Bridge it was on the rigt hand corner. I think it was converted to flats when I lived there in the 60's and was later demolised altogether. A run down delapidated house and rather spooky to a young lad. I hope your dog gets well, mine is sitting under my chair.
 
A view of a procession in Station Road. Think the photographer must have taken the photo from the railway bridge. Most of the buildings are surprisingly still there. Viv.

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Thanks Terry. Yes they do look like the same procession. The participants seem to be arranged into groups. Your photo seems to be ladies and children. The men in the photo I posted seem to be wearing sashes. Viv.
 
The procession in post 277 is probably the one from Six Ways to Erdington Abbey Procession to Erdington Abbey July 1914.JPGreported in the Birmingham Daily Mail on 27 July 1914
 
Yes, many thanks Brasscaster. I think the procession in July 1914 must have been especially poignant given the impending onset of WW1. In fact I expect many of those in the two photos would have, in a matter of months, gone off to war in the trenches. Viv.
 
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