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Geach Street

does anybody remember Betty and Sam Toon she used to sell toffee apples from her front door in geach street she lived opposite the betting shop
and on the other side of the road from Harry davis's

factory
 
loo loo. We used to get toffee apples from Toons the ones dipped in coconut were my favourite.... They had a daughter named Susan.
 
yes those coconut one were yummy, she was a lovely lady we used to call her aunty bet, her two youngest children were the same age as myself and my sister
we used to exchange clothes hahahah the family were Jeany Joany janet Samuel everlyn and susan unfortunatly there is only jeany janet and susan are left now
my niece has two children who are related to them small world we have so many wonderful memories of that area, i yearn sometimes to be back there as it was
life was so simple then take care love Lynda Upton (nee Shakespeare) 232 farm street.
 
Hi my mother put her bets on at overtons and she worked at the lampshade factory i also remember chicks shop they are wonderful memories does any body remember
Mr lawler wanting to get on the council he used to have this van that went around and had a loud speaker on top and it had this gingle vote vote for mr lawler whos that knocking your door cannot remember the last few words but i remember the tune after 55 years it was a good one dhahahahahah
 
hi loo loo having lived in paddington st i think our dad would have put his bets on at overtons..i will ask him what he remembers when i see him later on today...i know our mom set a lot of store by councillor lawler and i vaugly remember him going round canvassing in his van complete with loud speaker...

lyn
 
loo loo said:
does anybody remember Betty and Sam Toon she used to sell toffee apples from her front door in geach street she lived opposite the betting shop
and on the other side of the road from Harry davis's

factory
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does anyone remember eric toon...i was talking to day today and he said eric joined up at the same time as he did...dad also used overtons betting shop...i thought he would....

lyn
 
Hi Lyn
Love the photo's and the cars. keep them coming, i realy enjoy looking at them. Thank you for sharing them with us.

regards Stars (Eric)
 
Great pictures as usual Lyn, I am sure that there are some extras there. Some are actually of 'the Barracks' a court in Guildfrod Street. Look at the middle picture on post #104, it is behind the back Walls of the row of houses on the right at the corner oc Geach Street and Guildford Street. The pictures are: left on #107, third right #104, #105.
some time I wrote a short story about the Barracks yard, you will find it here:

https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2580&highlight=Yard
 
thanks mike...all of those pics were originally posted on this thread by john houghton and i saved them to my files...yes ive read your short story about the barracks yard..i may have a few more of geach st to post in time...

lyn
 
forgot to say mike that so long as they will load ok i will try and get all the guildford st pics back on next...

lyn
 
Thanks Lyn. By the way, looking back over my old posts, I realise that I said all that about The Barracks, etc., in greater detail not so long ago. I'm sure it can't be an age thing causing memory loss, must be the weather.
 
Lyn
they haven't gone completely. Something seems to have happened to the thumbnail. If you right click on the space where the thumbnail is, copy the https address, but remove the bit at the end which says "&thumb=1", and then put that in your browser then you get a download of the picture. Or at least I did when I tried with one of them.
Bit complicated I know, and probably not very well explained
mike
 
hi paul glad you like them but i cant see them now...oh geach st was the next to paddington st where i was born...

lyn
 
I looked it up on google, Lyne, know where it is now, just to say how sorry I was to see all your lovely photos and hard work so vandalised, after you gave us so much of old Brum.
regards paul
 
thanks paul..i would be lying if said i am not devastated at the loss of 60000 plus images which played such a major part of the forum...going back to paddington st i am still searching for any pics of this street as i do not have any at all...will keep searching though...

lyn
 
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