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Greenway Street, Small Heath

Great photo !

Shall move this thread to an existing one about the street. Members with an interest are more likely to see it there. Thanks for posting.

Viv.

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longwayhome said:
Couple of pictures from my late Dad to those interested in Greenway Street - Don Stockton with my Gran Lizzie Humphries. She and husband Bill kept a shop a few doors up from Stocktons. A 1925 Calendar from Williams' Electric Laundry. Dad's Gran Mary Ann McNab was Manager there.View attachment 156596View attachment 156597
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Well well well. You live and learn. I didn’t know Stockton’s Bakery and Humphries Sweeties & Pop were family related. Must tell my mum (97). We lived half way up Mount Terrace and I went to Tilton Road Junior & Infant School. May and George Brown had the first shop on the left turning into Greenway Street from Coventry Road. They had a daughter called Yvonne. According to my mum, May had a good head for business. Yvonne and I went to dancing school together. A place on the Coventry Road passed Victoria Park and sort of opposite Our Holy Family Catholic Church. May’s shop was opposite the greengrocers. They moved to Pershore Road(?). A “ladies separates” shop (knickers, bras and cardigans). My Aunt & Uncle took over the shop for a short time before relocating to Yardley.
 
terry carter said:
Who was living in Greenway Street a year before the start of WW1?

Thanks

Terry
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My great grandparents Harry and Ellen Houghton were living at 112 Greenway Street with their two sons Harry and Frederick. Subsequently Harry married and he and his family, including my mother, lived there until 1936. My mother wrote a short book about her early life in Birmingham, ‘Dad and Me, a Birmingham Story’ published by Shoestring Press in 2013.
 
My Dad, Harry Rice, was born in 1919 in Greenway Street, No 1 Back of 19. His Grandparents and Great Grandparents the Cross family/Trewollah also lived in Greenway Street from Victorian times. The men were all Omnibus/Tram Drivers along the Coventry Road. I remember visiting my Grandparents up a small alley way with a lampost at the top which opened into a courtyard where I think there were 6 houses with two outside toilets, one in each corner. The next door neighbours were the Athertons. Does anyone remember the old lady who made good old fashioned "Troach". Hard, black aniseed rock made in a tray and smashed into lumps. My Gran and neighbour never went to the pictures unless they had their "rocks" to eat. This old lady always said she would never give the recipe away and even though I have tried commercially made troach, it never tasted the same.
 
I've posted before about Greenway Street as mum and dad lived in 35 for a while (about 1941 - 1947) and mum left dad not long after i was born there in 1947

Mum and dad got back together and lived in 4/37 in one of the back to backs in 1951, backing on to the abattoir. I was only about four when mum (Gwendoline) contracted TB and dad and myself and my two brothers moved out before some demolition took place - so I don't remember too much about about Greenway, but my brother Roger who passed two years ago told me all about it and the shop at the end of the alley which i think was the Restalls - she ran him to hospital one day as he had a bad cut on his head

My grandmother Nellie Frith lived in 39 Greenway and then when she married my grandfather, Henry Edward Pearce, who was from Gloucestershire, they lived in 35

My Uncle Samuel also lived in 35 over a number of years and I think the Frith family owned a couple of the houses - possibly 35 and 37
 
Possibly a typo on your part but it appears that Nellie was a Firth not a Frith. And interestingly Nellie's parents were living on Greenway St from at least 1881.

Anyway here is a map of Greenway St from 1950...

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Yes - typo
Nellie became a dressmaker and moved to Vicarage Road near Edgbaston with my Grandfather - my brother remembers going there. I think Nellie and my grandfather must have split up as he ended up back in Greenway street!

It seems to have been a family habit!
 
Anyway here is a map of Greenway St from 1950...
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Thank you for this... I had been trying to track down 60a Greenway St as my Nan and Grandad, Reginald and Elsie Conn are registered on the 1957 electoral roll as living there, but I know for a fact that they lived in Shirley from 1939 to 1971. Could it have been a business? Does anyone remember Reg or his son-in-law Percy Williams? My grandad had a business making roller shutters for shops etc. It was called Conn, Martin and Co.
If anyone has any information or photos of that part of Greenway St I'd be very grateful!
 
EllaColes said:
. I had been trying to track down 60a Greenway St as my Nan and Grandad, Reginald and Elsie Conn are registered on the 1957 electoral roll as living there, but I know for a fact that they lived in Shirley from 1939 to 1971. Could it have been a business?
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There were three businesses at that address in the 1956 Kellys. On was Conn-Martin & Co, window blind makers
 
Lorraine reeves said:
Well well well. You live and learn. I didn’t know Stockton’s Bakery and Humphries Sweeties & Pop were family related. Must tell my mum (97). We lived half way up Mount Terrace and I went to Tilton Road Junior & Infant School. May and George Brown had the first shop on the left turning into Greenway Street from Coventry Road. They had a daughter called Yvonne. According to my mum, May had a good head for business. Yvonne and I went to dancing school together. A place on the Coventry Road passed Victoria Park and sort of opposite Our Holy Family Catholic Church. May’s shop was opposite the greengrocers. They moved to Pershore Road(?). A “ladies separates” shop (knickers, bras and cardigans). My Aunt & Uncle took over the shop for a short time before relocating to Yardley.
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Hi,
I lived at 4 Greenway St from 1942 / 1962. I think it was next door to the shop you mentioned I remember a daughter it could have been Yvonne cant quite remember. We had a large garage joined to our house where space was rented out to cars who was lucky enough to own one , also a Coal Truck was parked up the at night my dad used to sweep the truck & collect the coal bits to burn on our fire, at one time we had an ice cream cycle stored & when he came back late afternoon he would give us the ice cream that was left, On Blues match day's my dad would look after the bikes for the fans while the match was on.. I really wished we had a photo of all the bikes that were packed tightly up the yard, when the yard was full the stray bikes that came late would come into our front room leaning against our sideboard, I continually look at old photo's hope someone had taken a picture.
 
I was born at 4, Greenway st in 1942, I remember Humphries shop well used to go in for ice cream wafers & milk ice lollies
 
patb said:
Hi,
I lived at 4 Greenway St from 1942 / 1962. I think it was next door to the shop you mentioned I remember a daughter it could have been Yvonne cant quite remember. We had a large garage joined to our house where space was rented out to cars who was lucky enough to own one , also a Coal Truck was parked up the at night my dad used to sweep the truck & collect the coal bits to burn on our fire, at one time we had an ice cream cycle stored & when he came back late afternoon he would give us the ice cream that was left, On Blues match day's my dad would look after the bikes for the fans while the match was on.. I really wished we had a photo of all the bikes that were packed tightly up the yard, when the yard was full the stray bikes that came late would come into our front room leaning against our sideboard, I continually look at old photo's hope someone had taken a picture.
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I remember as a lad the match days at my grandparents Bill and Lizzie Humphries’ shop. Change stacked in piles for fast service. My sis and I used to get Bread and Butter pudding from Don Stocktons. Happy times.
 
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