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Handsworth Junction Road

carolina said:
Does anyone have any photos or memories of this road which was by Wattville Road in the 50/60s? Thanks
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I have just joined this forum, after looking up old places I used to live as a kid. We left the UK in June, 1977 (I was 14 at the time), but have been back and forth to both Birmingham and London (some family members live there) over the years.
One of the places we lived for a while was in a corner house - 34, Junction road. My mom's bedroom was above a hairdresser. House has now gone. It was on a corner, we were sandwiched in between two schools. I eventually left the infants and started in Watville (around the the other corner). If you turned to the right when coming out of the house, there was the infant school and at the end of that road was a railway / waste ground area where some of us often went to play-hang out.
We lived next door to a nice family (can't remember the parents by first name) and the son and daughter were named, Jane and Colin Griffith or Powell. I don't know why both names seem significant. I'll ask my mom, as she was friendly with the mother.I have lots of memories from living there, but probably wasting my time to say too much, here. I used to play with a few kids in area, but one in particular was an Indian girl called Indapal (not sure if that is spelled correctly).
This was in the last year or two of the 60s. We moved to Yardley Wood in 1970. Then two more houses, before we left the UK. We don't have outside photos of living in Junction Road, but we do have some pics of in the house and one of me in the back garden. Everything else is memories. I plan to go back to all the places I lived, as thus far I've only revisited the last house and school, in Sparkbrook (Golden Hillock School), since leaving the UK.

From Junction Road, the next house we moved to was in Yardley Wood ((where more memories of my childhood were created), but that's another story. Anyway, I'll stop here. Hope you find / found what you're looking for. I'd love some old photos, too.
I will eventually seek these kinds of things, myself :-)
 
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