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Gower Street

Poor kids in the third photo, all sad and pouty-lipped - perhaps they had played up and been shouted at!
 
BOB1 said:
Hi Ray just came across your thread and it gave me many memories of the time I lived in Gower street during the 1950,s and 60,s.
My family originally lived at 17 Gower street and we moved up to across the road to live face in you next door to the Meeks in 1958.
I went to Lozells street primary school and was in the same class as your brother Brian, and an old friend of mine, Spud Taylor, lived just below you in a back house.
I don`t know if you remember me but I assume Brian will, my name is Bob Plant and I have a sister Carol and a brother John.
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So sad to see the demise of a very old garage, compared to how it looked in its heyday. See post #202 on the Wheeler Street lozells thread. Sorry can't seem to create a link on my iPad.
 
for anyone wanting to get their bearing on marks photo 8 the church you can just see is on lozells road and still there

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BOB1 said:
Hi Ray just came across your thread and it gave me many memories of the time I lived in Gower street during the 1950,s and 60,s.
My family originally lived at 17 Gower street and we moved up to across the road to live face in you next door to the Meeks in 1958.
I went to Lozells street primary school and was in the same class as your brother Brian, and an old friend of mine, Spud Taylor, lived just below you in a back house.
I don`t know if you remember me but I assume Brian will, my name is Bob Plant and I have a sister Carol and a brother John.
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Hi Bob thought I’d let you know Brian passed away 16/12/2020. John lives in Lichfield and Carol in Cumbria.
 
Michael_Ingram said:
Three photos of Gower Street Infants from 1933 and 1934 with my middle sister (born 1927) on the left (with dark hair) and an older one, unknown date with my eldest sister on the left (born 1923)
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Fantastic. Looking for my late father Douglas Burton and his sister Joyce.
 
This is RJR transport that my great great grandparents Richard John Richardson and penninah (Pennie) brought back in the early 1900s and they lived in the manor house with their family my great Grandad (Harry) then went on to run it. It was very sad when the council compulsory purchased it and disregarded the fact that my great Grandad didn’t want to sell but they took it anyway and smashed it to the ground and put the ugly buildings that are there now.. i’ve never seen these photos of it being bulldozed to the ground. All that history so sad.
Does anybody remember Hary Richardson?
At the time of Him owning and living in the garage before it was compulsory purchased he was married to a Lillian who had a sweet Shop.
As his first wife Edie who was mother to my Nan Mary, sadly passed away quite a few years beforehand. They also had their own Taxie rank.
My great grandfather, Harry held quite a few titles in the British transport area. He was a very proud local popular and loved man.
 
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