I actually took this photo, it was taken from the back of the house I lived in (Gordon Street) from the early 50s until early 60s. The X marks the house my girlfriend (my wife for over 50 years now) lived in. This was in Artillery Street.
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Gordon Street
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Thanks. If it helps any, I lived at 23 Gordon Street, if you look at the map showing house numbers ours was in a block of 4.
Ours was the downstairs maisonette. We left around 1966/67. I do not recall the Paynes, No 21 was occupied by another family the whole time we lived in Gordon Street.
I have just remembered that I did take another photo from the house in Artillery Street looking back towards where I lived, unfortunately I never actually got the house in, what can be seen in this photo is the door to no 29 Gordon Street (to the left of centre, right of street light) 
this would have been the upstairs maisonette in the next block .
this would have been the upstairs maisonette in the next block .Eileen Gallagher
Brummie babby
Great Pic
lmr3103
master brummie
I think the Paynes moved in after you at 23 as they were downstairs and there was another block of maisonettes before the flats. The names I remember were the Pointons, the Skinners, the Newsomes, the Cridges, Mrs Nabbs, and Shirley Hunt who was a barmaid at the Acorn pub.
Lynn
Lynn
That could explain why the name Payne did not register with me. I do however remember the Pointon's, Skinners, Newsome's and Shirley Hunt. In fact Alan Pointon taught me to tie a Windsor Knot in my tie when I was in my early teens, I thought I was the cats whiskers when I managed it successfully on my own.
I found all of these post very interesting, I have an ancestor who lived at NMo 9 Gordon Street from 1911 up to his death in 1931 (Joseph Stonier Dishley). His wife was Elizabeth and they had a son call William and a daughter Florence, I am still in the process of researching the family so will keep checking to see if any more photos or memories.
brummy-lad
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roybrown5050
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Does anyone remember Anthony Green from Gordon St? He would have been born around 1950. His family lived in a house the entrance to which was off the road (you could say a gulley). I only went there a few times. He was a classmate at Moseley School of Art. I His dad must have been disabled because he drove a mobility vehicle of the three wheeler type with a joystick lever type of control and a black vinyl cover for weather protection. I think he worked for an abattoir or in the meat markets around Sherlock St. Also springs to mind a man called Terry Wood came from that area. He married and settled in Rosemary Rd Stechford when the new houses were built on the site of the former orchard grounds of what was then the Yardley Arms Pub. That was around the mid 1960s. He was a semi professional footballer with Stourbridge Town. He had one daughter who's name escapes me but might have been Jill. Any info would be nice. I'm not certain about it being Gordon St. It may have been Wolseley St, but I don't think so!
roybrown5050
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So grateful for your post, MWS, it would have been Wolseley St where I used to visit. The angle at which it joined Garrison Lane is correct. I remember Anthony had a middle initial so that's probably the correct entry in the births registry! I remember adventures playing on waste ground further up the road around what must have been Carrs Paints. It must have been a bomb site! I also remember playing 'footer' in the Garrison Lane Park. I only had to smell the woodwork glue at school and I was 'there' because there was I believe a boneyard in or off Watery Lane nearby which made animal glue and the smell of it drifted across! Also remember the vertical black and white sign advertising Wright's Ropes which I suppose was in or near Garrison Street. Thanks again. Happy memories!
In addition to Robert & Joan Green, there was also an Arthur T Green who lived at 98 Wolseley Street.
Reading through your last post, it bought back memories of myself & my late wife during our courting days (mid to late1960s), I lived in Gordon Street, she in Artillery Street.
There was indeed a bone yard close by, the smell of melting bones pervading everywhere, particularly on the number 53 bus as it travelled along Fazeley Street.
Wrights Ropes occupied virtually the whole of Garrison Street
Reading through your last post, it bought back memories of myself & my late wife during our courting days (mid to late1960s), I lived in Gordon Street, she in Artillery Street.
There was indeed a bone yard close by, the smell of melting bones pervading everywhere, particularly on the number 53 bus as it travelled along Fazeley Street.
Wrights Ropes occupied virtually the whole of Garrison Street
roybrown5050
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Thanks for your post Reddi, of course it would depend on the way the houses were numbered back then. As I remember I turned into Wolseley St from Garrison Lane and walked along the right hand side. After a short walk I turned into a side entrance (may have been a gulley) which took me to the back of those houses. Maybe the reason being that it was how they entered their house and I was just following suit. I presume that there was a frontage onto the street. If the numbering started from Garrison Lane then 17 as attested by MWS in his reply to have been the address of said Robert and Joan Green, Anthony's parents, would tie in very nicely position wise.
I'm pleased that I've stirred a little nostalgia, even if its through the lenses of rose coloured spectacles! .....Which is why we're on this wonderful site! Thanks again!
I'm pleased that I've stirred a little nostalgia, even if its through the lenses of rose coloured spectacles! .....Which is why we're on this wonderful site! Thanks again!
roybrown5050
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Well, MWS, I have seen these plans before and didn't know how to decipher them! Your explanation has made it crystal clear and endorsed what was, after all, a 60 year old memory. If nothing else it proves to me that my memory is still functioning as it should. Well done you and many thanks, as well as thanks to Reddi Master Brummie! In very short order all has become clear to me!
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
Yup. The bone yard was the other side of the wall at the end of our garden !
Andrew.
gordon street
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Ghostly looking photo of Gordon street and the corner shop at top end and Harry's shop over at Witton Street. The total destruction.
gordon street
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I think this garden is Mr browns garden or Freddie Guinness as the angle looks right and was full of roses, they lived in gordon street in the 4x4 houses, so the two building's we see are in artillery Street.
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Astoness, the pic does indeed show Mr Browns garden. I took the photo way back in the early 60s. I lived at 23 Gordon St, the Brown family lived above at no 21. Mr Brown had the back garden whilst my parents had the front garden.
The houses that can be seen are in Artillery St. The one with the X on was where my girlfriend lived (27 Artillery St.). Margaret and I started courting in 1963/64 when I was 13 going on 14. marrying in St Andrews Church in 1969. Sadly Margaret passed away 3yrs ago this month.
I still have the original photo.
The houses that can be seen are in Artillery St. The one with the X on was where my girlfriend lived (27 Artillery St.). Margaret and I started courting in 1963/64 when I was 13 going on 14. marrying in St Andrews Church in 1969. Sadly Margaret passed away 3yrs ago this month.
I still have the original photo.
Alison Goldie
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My great grandmother, Clara, lived in No.10 Gordon Street at that time. I have found her on censuses there for 1911 and 1939. They only show even numbered houses so can't see your family. I have a photo of her standing at her front door but it doesn't show much of the building.
Its been a while since this thread was added too, but I have located some further pics of Gordon Street.
No1 was taken in the front garden of 23 Gordon Street looking toward Garrison Lane, The Acorn pub can be seen behind my older brother, he is the one on the right, I am on the left and my younger sibling is in the middle. No2 shows again, myself and two of my siblings in the front garden.
In pic No2 I am on the right in the mac.
We lived at 23 from 1950 until around the mid 1960s. My younger brother being born there.
No 3 is looking towards Garrison Street, with Wrights Ropes at the far end.
No1 was taken in the front garden of 23 Gordon Street looking toward Garrison Lane, The Acorn pub can be seen behind my older brother, he is the one on the right, I am on the left and my younger sibling is in the middle. No2 shows again, myself and two of my siblings in the front garden.
In pic No2 I am on the right in the mac.
We lived at 23 from 1950 until around the mid 1960s. My younger brother being born there.
No 3 is looking towards Garrison Street, with Wrights Ropes at the far end.