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Re: What is that Street ?

GER22VAN said:
View attachment 10737 I know that the main Street is Bloomsbury Street but I am not too sure of the side Street. A Trade Directory would solve the problem. I think it could be Lupin Street but I seem to remember Lodge Tyres but also remember a Coach Park so I begin to ask myself where was that?
Thank you for any help that is rendered.
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was it andy's coaches on bloomsbury st, where they used to park some double decker buses as well some charas, me and my cousins used to play on them in the mid 50s
 
Re: What is that Street ?

pmcdermott said:
was it andy's coaches on bloomsbury st, where they used to park some double decker buses as well some charas, me and my cousins used to play on them in the mid 50s
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I don't remember the name or double deckers there, but there seemed to be a lot of coach's so I think it could quite well have been Andy's coaches.
 
Hi i used to live in Erskine St if i remember right the side streets at the top end of Bloomsbery St were Henry St, Heanage St and then Lupin St [thats where the school was]
 
Astoness,hi i,m a newcomer i,ve just seen a photo of Vauxhall Rd and the corner of Erskine St [that has amazed me] i lived at no.3 next to Harris coal merchants yard If this photo was taken early 60s i believe the 3rd. car down belonged to me i was 20 at the time i worked 7 days a week just having bank holidays and christmas off to buy it.
 
hi dek and a warm welcome to you...so pleased that you liked that pic...hope you enjoy the forum and if you need any help just give us a shout..

astoness
 
Sospiri

Maurice I know it was a while back but you were looking for a photo of Perry Pens. If you look at the rear left of this photo you can just make out the photo. In the second photo I have enlarged it a little.

Phil
 

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Can anyone rember the snooker hall in Gt Francis St opposite the Junction. From the Co-op towards Duddeston Mill the last of the shops was the Post Office, next was a sweet shop then a dark passage leading to the hall,I played there many times.
 
Hi dek carr

I remember the snooker club although I never used it much, I preferred the Railway Club in Inkerman St. One of my mates lived next door to the snooker club. If I remember right the family name was Evans. I think they moved out in the early 60's.

Also if I remember right this photo shows the alley to the club, I think its the one with the sign over it next to the house with the new frontage where my mate lived.

photo courtesy of Carl Chinn Birmingham Lives.

Phil
 

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Hey dek, my sister I went there a couple of times with our friend Sylvia, had to leave early one time though as they were having a Strip show, girls wern't allowed to stay back then (not that we wanted to any way) and we were also classed as too young about 15/16 ish.
 
So Pomgolian

This is how you spent your formative years, hanging around snooker halls. You know what they say about snookers players don't you?

Phil
 
Pmc1947 Phil your spot on with the photo of the snooker club. never new any thing about strip shows honest! we used to play a game for a few bob called Contenental.6 people could play at once we had 6 bottle tops with the numbers 2-7on them they were put in a bag. you racked all the balls up by the black spot then you had to pot a red and pick a top with a number out of the bag ,you then had to try and pot your colour if this was not possible you could pot somebody else,s ball if you managed this nothing was said they could play on but coudn,t win that game with 6 players all potting other peoples balls the game went on all evening until somebody potted a red and then their own colour,game over pick up the money Dek.
 
Dek

I played in some places that would take you to the cleaners given half the chance playing Continental. I had a mate that was brilliant he could go into the Piccadilly club in town that used to be full of hustlers and come out about an hour later £10 better off and I'm talking of the early 60's and that was more than a weeks wages to some people.

The only bloke I ever met that was half that good playing around Nechells was a lad from Scotland by the name of Joe Higgins but I don't think he ever played at that snooker hall. He only lived over the road from you in that block of flats next to the Hamlet.

Phi
 
pmc1947 said:
Hi dek carr

I remember the snooker club although I never used it much, I preferred the Railway Club in Inkerman St. One of my mates lived next door to the snooker club. If I remember right the family name was Evans. I think they moved out in the early 60's.

Also if I remember right this photo shows the alley to the club, I think its the one with the sign over it next to the house with the new frontage where my mate lived.

photo courtesy of Carl Chinn Birmingham Lives.

Phil
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wow what a great photo that is our house with the big opening number 10, it was mr evans who lived in that house,my dad used to park his car in that opening, on the other side of us was a miss kendrick i used to run errands for her and get a spam sandwich for payment,that opening led to the back of the b.r.s. depot
 
Hi Jonacs

You are right about Mr Evans, I didn't know him but I knew one of his sons and two of his daughters. If I remember correctly they were Jimmy, Margaret & Jean. I can't say I remember you though at least I don't think so.

Phil
 
Dek

Playing snooker for money can end up four ways. You can pack it up, you can get good at the game and get rich or you can end up broke. I chose the first option when my eyes got so bad I couldn't see from one end of the table to the other.

Phil
 
Hi Phil I only went there because my older sister and her friend fancied a couple of the Lads they knew hung out there... I was just the 'Kid sister'...sorry pain in the harris ..who told if they didn't let me go too. :-)

Chris/Pom
 
Chris

I know, I only used to go to snooker halls to get my mates out of those dens of iniquity. Like yourself I wouldn't have dreamed of going through the doors for any other reason.

Phil
 
pmc1947 Phil you you seem to be a man with vast knowledge of Nechells i,m sure you can help me with this one ,while browsing i came across a thread by ger22van with a photo of the bottom of Gt.Broook St and Vauxhall Rd. This showed a factory in the left hand corner with part of it,s name showing ----s B,ham Ltd. In my minds eye i,m seeing this building going to Newdigate St.down to Spooner St[where the entrance was]. I think it was owned by davenports and it was a beer bottle washing plant also Im seeing a shop opposite the Co-op i think it was a Corn shop [we use to get our chicken food there].What was next door i see another window, house or shop i,m not sure.am i right or wrong please refresh my brain.just a bit of imfo i am part of the Williams family we were the largest and poorest family in the street and probably the most trouble. still iv,e grown up since then.Dek
 
dek carr said:
pmc1947 Phil you you seem to be a man with vast knowledge of Nechells i,m sure you can help me with this one ,while browsing i came across a thread by ger22van with a photo of the bottom of Gt.Broook St and Vauxhall Rd. This showed a factory in the left hand corner with part of it,s name showing ----s B,ham Ltd. In my minds eye i,m seeing this building going to Newdigate St.down to Spooner St[where the entrance was]. I think it was owned by davenports and it was a beer bottle washing plant also Im seeing a shop opposite the Co-op i think it was a Corn shop [we use to get our chicken food there].What was next door i see another window, house or shop i,m not sure.am i right or wrong please refresh my brain.just a bit of imfo i am part of the Williams family we were the largest and poorest family in the street and probably the most trouble. still iv,e grown up since then.Dek
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hi dek
that was guys i think it was a storage depot for their beer,they also had a small outdoor in newdegate street where we used to buy small bottles of ginger beer
 
Hi Dek

I don't remember the factory you are thinking about so I had a little peek in Kelly's for the 1950's as I imagine this is the time frame that you are talking about.

This is an exctract,

159 Adelaide Arms P.H.
Jsph. Russell
here is Erskine st
169 Ashted Coaches (Mrs.
Olivia Payne, proprietress)
205 Working Boys' Home
(Vauxhall ho)
207 King William (B'ham)
Ltd. pattern mkrs
211 Watson Horace W. small
pressed & turned parts
219 Hicks Harold Ltd. hay
& straw dlrs
...here are Newdegate st.
Ashted row, Bloomsbury st
and Great Francis streets...

So I would imagine the premises you are talking about is King William (Bham)Ltd. That is of course if I am in the right place.

Phil
 
Ernie

The impression I get is that it was sort of a half way house between an orphanage and the beginnings of making your own way in life. I think it was for those lads who were too old for the orphanage but too young to be put on the streets on their own. Thats the conclusion I have come to as I can't see what else it would be.

I think by the time I lived in the area it was the local National Assistance Board Offices.

Phil
 
Hi Ernie

I'll try this post again, with the problems on site today I don't know what happened to my last post. This is near enough to what I said.

I wouldn't take a lot of notice of what I say, as half the time I don't know what I am saying myself. This home had its origins in the workhouse system originated by the Birmingham Union see this link.

https://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses//england/warks/greater_birmingham_union.htm

I think it may have started off this way in the beginning but later in years finishing up along the lines that I suggested.

Phil
 
Jonacs1 Thanks mate it,s back in me head [ Guys it was] but i,m still seeing Davenports lorries ,did they get took over in the late 50s.
 
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