terry carter
Birmingham Pals
Who was living in Greenway Street a year before the start of WW1?
Thanks
Terry
Thanks
Terry
Hello there. My Dad was born and grew up at 14 Greenway Street in 1920 - his mom and dad - Bill and Lizzie Humphries kept a shop there - next to Stocktons Pie shop. Dad's Gran - Mary Ann McNab managed the Electric Laundry for years.
Regards - Gerald - Argyll.
Hello, Re Greenway Street
Next to the cobblers was the Hat shop owned by Mrs Fisher then the garage number 4 where I lived then a sweet/grocer shop next was the terrace then Stocktons Pie shop then Humphries after them was Laundry , Barbars shop, Ladies Hairdresses can't remember if thats the right order though.
Pat
From 1949 to 1960 I lived in one of the terraces off Greenway Street. A back to back house, with two blocks of four toilets each to serve the whole terrace!! In the streets and on the bomb sites we played hopscotch, statutes, tracking, rollerskates (metal wheels), skipping, marbles etc. Saturday morning at the Kingston Picture House for a tanner were great. My mum recalls a WW1 stone memorial plaque set into the wall of a house in Greenway Street. Does anyone have any information as to what happened to it? Not sure when, perhaps in the 1980's, part of Greenway Street was formerly "Stopped Up" by Birmingham City Council, i.e. part still exists and part was sold to Morrisons for a supermarket. Shame. My Aunt and Uncle (Anne and Wal) owned a general grocery shop in Greenway Street near the junction of Coventry Road and opposite the Oxford Public House. May and George were the previous owners if anyone remembers them. Does anyone have any pictures of Greenway Street or its terraces? Would love to see them. Regards