Formans Road Sparkhill.

[Nettle]

Hi all, my great grandmother was Mrs chambers who owned the sweet shop on Formans Road. I was wondering if anyone has any memories or photos of the shop?

Hi, was she still there in the 60’s? I grew up in the wool shop a few doors down and remember getting sweets from there. 1d Cadbury bar of chocolate, cones of pineapple chunks etc and Lucky bags! Was the pork butcher next door?

 

[Nettle]

I remover Ronnie Foley and he had a younger brother called Barry and his Mom was Violet a quiet little dark haired lady and his dad was a small ginger haired man who wore sped. The ladies wear shop was run by Mrs Nash who had a daughter called Grace who was my age and I think David and Brian Morcom lived next to their shop. David married Junes friend Joy
I remover the green grocer being a large red faced man with a mop of wavy hair. Do you remember Bill Harley who's Dad
kept the Pork Butchers shop next to Chambers sweet shop at the Stratford Road end? Sorry - I meant Ronnies dad wore
specs!
Pat

Hi, My sister married Roger Morcom the younger brother of David and Brian. Their Mom and our Mom who owned Barbara’s wool shop in Formans road were good friend.

 

[Nettle]

does anyone remember Lucas bicycle repair shop?

Yes I remember it! I grew up next door in the wool shop in the 60’s and I remember getting fireworks from them too

 

[BrummieGeoff]

My mom was a customer of the wool shop in Formans Road in the 1950s and 1960s. She knitted all the time when she wasn't working .... producing jumpers etc for herself, my brother and me. I often went into the shop with her, and was sent to pick up extra rolls when she ran out of wool.
I knew all the shops in that stretch of Formans Road .... and in the 1970s I worked as the "butcher's boy" delivering meat for Halliwell the butcher on the corner of Percy Road.

 

[bygonebrummie]

Hi, was she still there in the 60’s? I grew up in the wool shop a few doors down and remember getting sweets from there. 1d Cadbury bar of chocolate, cones of pineapple chunks etc and Lucky bags! Was the pork butcher next door?

I grew Up on Percy Road in the 60s and 70s. I loved going to the wool shop on Formans Road with my Mum. The shop had a lovely smell and I liked looking at the honeycomb of shelves containing neatly piled balls of brightly coloured wool. There was a butchers next to the sweet shop and next to that a delicatessen/butcher that was owned by a gentleman called Stan.