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Gosta Green Through Duddeston

Brumgum
Map attached, but, as i said, can find little mention in directories
mike


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Have just realised i can do a bit better. It hadn't registered that it would be on this larger scale map
mike


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mikejee said:
Have just realised i can do a bit better. It hadn't registered that it would be on this larger scale map
mike
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That's a great map Mike, My Dad tells me that two generations of his family the Hines-Randles lived at the bottom house on the left, he will be very happy to see this!.
Can you help me look for another location in Aston Rd just at the back of here. My Grandparents were on the 1911 census and the address was 23ct 3ho Aston Rd, i'd love to find out where this exactly was and i can see fron your map it has some numbers on,

thanks,

Brumgum.
 
Unfortunately the very large scale map I have only covers a very small area of the south end of Aston road, but it does list courts 24 & 25. i;ve marked those on the smaller scale map attached. As they run consecutively, then almost certainly court 23 is on the western side of Aston road, in the small triangle of buildings north of Digby Street. trouble is its difficult to tell what is a court of houses and what are outbuildings or workshops attached to the back. sorry I can't be of more help.
mike
 
mikejee said:
Unfortunately the very large scale map I have only covers a very small area of the south end of Aston road, but it does list courts 24 & 25. i;ve marked those on the smaller scale map attached. As they run consecutively, then almost certainly court 23 is on the western side of Aston road, in the small triangle of buildings north of Digby Street. trouble is its difficult to tell what is a court of houses and what are outbuildings or workshops attached to the back. sorry I can't be of more help.
mike
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Thanks for your help, sorry i didn't reply but i've been away,

Brumgum.
 
mikejee said:
Unfortunately the very large scale map I have only covers a very small area of the south end of Aston road, but it does list courts 24 & 25. i;ve marked those on the smaller scale map attached. As they run consecutively, then almost certainly court 23 is on the western side of Aston road, in the small triangle of buildings north of Digby Street. trouble is its difficult to tell what is a court of houses and what are outbuildings or workshops attached to the back. sorry I can't be of more help.
mike
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I'm trying to imagine what it would be like living in one of these courts. My Nan had just had her first child in the 1911 census and she lost this daughter and another within 8 hrs of each other later on. On the census they just had one room. She lived in various locations in this area untill 1955 when she moved in with my parents.
 
brumgum said:
I'm trying to imagine what it would be like living in one of these courts. My Nan had just had her first child in the 1911 census and she lost this daughter and another within 8 hrs of each other later on. On the census they just had one room. She lived in various locations in this area untill 1955 when she moved in with my parents.
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Must have looked something like this i found on another thread..
https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=20229&d=1222811320
 
does anyone remember the old train engine in the park?used to play on that as kids
 
Hello Andy

If you mean the one in Newdegate street on the end of Vauxhall Rd, then I never played there myself, as I was too old by the time this park opened. Anyway if thats the one you are talking about here's a photo.

Phil
 

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Hello I'm from Dan Pawsons Artesian Hall Stompers who used to play at "The Warwick Castle " Gosta Green in the 1960's, Has anyone got an exterior photo of the pub ? Would be great if someone has one..... Here's hoping.
Paul Spedding.
 
Hi Paul

There one one this thread if you go back a bit. Not a very good one but it will do until someone comes up with a better one.

Phil
 
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I played there in the 1960s with brothers and sisters. but what i remember most was the big factory next to it . when it closed they emtied all the army helmets from inside and all the kids in the area were walking around in them. I kept one for years till i borrowed it out for a fancy dress.
 
I could be wrong but I dont think this has been on before.
SORRY about the size but it was Duddeston Mill Road.
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Ernie

You copied the thumbnail, here's the same photo (subject to the same acknowledgment) but a little larger. A brilliant photo of Duddeston Mill Rd just prior to clearance.

Phil
 

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The thing about old photo's is, they correct your mind and remind you just how things were. Prior to seeing that photo, if asked to describe Duddeston Mill Rd I never would have described the hill as being that steep.

After seeing the photo it has all come back to me, yes it was that steep, especially where it passed under the bridge.

Phil
 
Help needed.

I was trawling through Carl Chinns Site Birmingham Lives, when I came across the photo. Can anybody tell me where it is (get your glasses on Ernie) I have no recollection of it at all.

The caption says St Thomas Social Club and Church Hall Great Lister St 1957. I am still no wiser.

Phil
 

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Phil. I thought I knew Great Lister Street but that Photograph really has got me beaten.
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Ernie

I have looked all up and down Great Lister St in Kelly's to no avail, mind you that only means the postal address could be in the side street as the photo shows it to be on a corner.

Phil
 
Ernie

What year is that map, as it shows Duddeston Manor Road going straight over my old house in Francis St. I don't think it ever did that. in fact I think it runs along the route of the old Willis St from above St Mathews Church. A strange map indeed.

Phil
 
Marmalade
The maps are showing Greaves Place, which Brumgum thought was called Greaves passage
mike
 
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