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Grove Lane Handsworth

Ian FOFB

Ian FOFB

Brummie yes ! Novice no !
Unfortunately the photos at the start of this thread have been lost, if anyone has a copy of these please let one of the admin team know. Many thanks.

The 'then' pictures are taken from old postcards, the 'now' pictures taken from Google Streetview.
The older of the pictures is thought to date from the 1920's.

Ian.
 
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I like looking at the people in the old photos, the hats the people wore, wonder if the photos were taken on Sundays, and it's nice to see how some buildings have survived. Also in many of the old photos, the absence of trees, or recently planted. I remember the very small trees in our road when I was a child and how they had grown to almost nuisance level these days.
oldmohawk..:)
 
yes i am glad the old houses are still there ii used to deliver milk around that grove lane
and the complete area many years ago for midland counties way back
best wishes astonion
 
The 'then' pictures are taken from old postcards, the 'now' pictures taken from Google Streetview.
The older of the pictures is thought to date from the 1910's.

Ian
 
I don't know Handsworth at all but my great-grandfather lived there and my grandfather born there. They are on the 1901 census as living in Church Grove. Out of interest does anyone know if this still exists?
 
This thread has lost many of the early images, so please let a member of the admin team know if you have any. (Having said that its difficult to tell what images they were - afraid relying on members memory). Viv.

Meanwhile, here's a few of Grove Lane.

First we have the "Boulevard", Grove Lane

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Next, a c1910 image courtesy of the Black Country Museum

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Then we have Phyllis Nicklin to thank for the following two images taken in March 1968; the junction of Grove Lane and Soho Road, followed by Handsworth Grammar School.

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This photo is titled ‘The Grove’ meaning the pub to the left. Most of the buildings in the photo are still standing. Someone might be able to date this by the car and tram. Viv.

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Many of the buildings in the old photo are still there today including King Edwards School on the left. An interesting car pulling out of KEGS driveway on the left, I suspect not contemporary with the date of the photo. The photographer would have been standing on the corner of Branksome Avenue. Viv.

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I think that's Grove Farm in post #16. If so, it's a substantial farmhouse and was also known as Kents Farm. The farm was at the junction of Grove Lane and Hinstock Road. Grove Lane swimming baths were built on the site in 1907. Source : Birmingham Archives.
 
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I think that's Grove Farm in post #1. If so, it's a substantial farmhouse and was also known as Kents Farm. Location for the image below is given as the junction of Grove Lane and Hinstock Road. Grove Lane swimming baths were built on the site in 1907. Source : Birmingham Archives.

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The earliest reference I found was in 1859 for a marriage of a daughter of the late Mr Hailstone of Grove Farm
 
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I think that's Grove Farm in post #16. If so, it's a substantial farmhouse and was also known as Kents Farm. Location for the image below is given as the junction of Grove Lane and Hinstock Road. Grove Lane swimming baths were built on the site in 1901. Source : Birmingham Archives.

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i think you are absolutely right viv...same steps leading up to door seen in both photos

lyn
 
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Surprisingly, the dual carriageway remains in place today compared with this 1917 image. Perhaps some of the trees are those shown in the early photo. I think the supporting wall next to the tram might be the same wall.

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Not quite as I remember it in either photo & certainly did not remember the trams.......The dual carriage way I remember very well as it was always safer to ride my bike delivering meat for the butcher on it.
 
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