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DavidGrain said:
There was a maternity home in Lordswood Road. I think it is the building known as Dore House which is now a care home.
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yes indeed david...i have a friend born there in 1951...think it was an overspill maternity hospital used when closer ones were full up..if the search box is used we may have a thread for it with photos

lyn
 
Hurricaneplanes said:
I used to take my fathers radio accumulator to Dingleys the cycle shop for recgarging until Durrants the radio shop provided the same service. There was a cycle shop adjacent on the right of the Vine pub. Clearly seen in the Vine photo.
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handlebar said:
Carolina, just picked up your photo of the top end of the high Street. It's exactly as I remember it having left the village in 1961. The Mews Garage sign is fixed to the wall of O'connors paper shop. I used to deliver papers for them round Serpentine Road. If Elizabeth Redmond is reading this I'm wondering if she lived in the houses next to Furbers and would remember the Reeves family (Tony and Noel and Dianne). We lived on the corner, at 275 and had a pair of shears over the top of the front door as my Grandfather (Joe Bellingham) and my dad ground lawnmowers and shears in a shed at the back. Out of interest, does anyone have, or know where I can get a photo of the inside of The Picture House (Old Harborne) in Serpentine road. I spent half my childhood in there and have fond memories of it
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Smint100 said:
Oh my word - looking for something completely different, I happened upon this page!

My mother (Beryl)'s father owned Beaumont's removals. Her sister Joan worked in the office, and her brothers James (Jim) and Charles (Bill) used to work on the vans. They sold out to Jay's in the end. Another of Mum's sisters married Tom Leonard who worked for Furber's (I think it became Furber-Leonard?) and lived in Queen's Park Road. Mum's family moved from Milford Road to Lordswood Road in one of those big old scary Victorian houses two (I think) doors down from the old swimming baths - all long gone now.

My Dad's parents ran the sweet shop in the High Street and they lived above it, although I think it was a carpet shop at one point. They still used the phrase "Sharp's the Toffee" to hurry us up, and (somewhere) I still have a toffee hammer from when they used to serve the toffee loose.

This thread, and in particular, this post, has brought back some very happy memories :)
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Smint100. My dad (Jack Groves) worked for Beaumonts doing removals for a number of years. We lived in the house next to Furbers on the High Street.
 
Hi all,

Random one here, does anyone know what year the row of terraces at the end of station road/start of gordon road were built. They're distinctly a different style to the rest of the houses on the road? :)
 
If I understand you correctly, you mean the houses on the bend? Only a rough idea but...

On the map revised 1901 there are only two properties between Wentworth Road and the fire station (oppositish Albany Road).

The next available map was revised 1913 and all the houses are now there. The layout of the houses appear to be the same as now.

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Hi All. I have just registered with your group. I happened to enter Tonks' garage on the web which was opposite my grandfather's shop (Scarf's) in the High Street, now Rumours hair salon. You have mentioned the Jennings family, who owned numerous businesses. I met many of them through the Harborne Club in Albany Road. I was born in the maternity hospital in Lordswood road in 1957. I think I was at school with Sam Lilly in 1963 at Station Rd?
 
MWS said:
If I understand you correctly, you mean the houses on the bend? Only a rough idea but...

On the map revised 1901 there are only two properties between Wentworth Road and the fire station (oppositish Albany Road).

The next available map was revised 1913 and all the houses are now there. The layout of the houses appear to be the same as now.

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Thankyou! Yes, those are the ones. Can i ask what website your using for the maps?
 
I traveled along Gillhurst Road many, many times on the number 10 bus. Very nice houses there too.
 
Hi Mike
Still has some nice properties along there many have been upgraded over the years I used to deliver papers along there and Lordswood road area and most of Harborne for various newsagents in the 60s . I lived in Wentworth Road up until I got married in 1974 .
Harborne has changed so much over the years but still a nice place to live I should imagine .
 
jennyann said:
Hi aok: Welcome to the Forum. The Birmingham Government https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/harbornehistory
pages have some great links to Harborne and also their Local History Group. You may
be able to find some information on the house that you are looking for on Harborne Park Road and perhaps a photo if no one on the Forum has one.
The Field House care home is probably the only big old house left on that road.
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HI I also lived in Harborne and worked at Bradshaws 1961-1970 ? many happy days .KEN
 
Just catching up. Smint100. Thanks for the photo of Furbers. If you look to the left of the building you'll see my fathers shed with all the roof windows. It was at the back of the house (275 High Street). My dad and uncle sharpened lawn mowers and shears and there was a pair of shears over the front door. My dad drove for Beaumonts and the Reeves family lived almost next door. I played with Diana, Paul and Noel as a kid. Brian Wade and Tony Dixon lived round the corner in Emerson Road and Raymond Tormey lived at the top. Further along Wentworth road lived Maurice or Morrisj Smith. He did all the odd jobs at the Royalty Cinema and posted the bill advertising the next weeks films. I often helped him.
 
aok said:
Hi everybody, I've just joined Birmingham History Forum and I'm finding it most interesting. Most fascinating to me is this section relating to Harborne.

I lived at Quinton Road from 1948 until 1973, I attended St. Peter's Junior School, 1953-1958 and Harborne Hill Secondary Modern, 1958-1962 and also worked at Bradshaws Printing Co in Vivian Road. I have been searching for a picture of the house that stood at 55 Harborne Park Road for many many years now with no luck, this is a very personal mission for me. The house was long ago demolished (circa late 80's), I know that a group of houses now stand on this site but prior to it's demolition the house that stood there was a very large one. It originally stood next to Clent house which was on the corner of Harborne Park Road and St. Peters Road opposite Vivian Road. Clent house itself was demolished in the early 50's to make way for further housing but 55 Harborne Park Road remained there for another 35 or so years.

If anyone has either a picture of this house or is aware of any information relating to it's residents from the mid 50's until it's demolition I would be very grateful if you could contact me. As mentioned this is a very personal mission I am on and any info no matter how small would be wonderful.

I have many fond and happy memories of Harborne from the time I lived there and would be more than happy to reminisce these with anyone out there.

Thanking you in advance.

aok
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Hi Alan is this you on BHF web site. KEN CUMMINGS
 
handlebar said:
Just catching up. Smint100. Thanks for the photo of Furbers. If you look to the left of the building you'll see my fathers shed with all the roof windows. It was at the back of the house (275 High Street). My dad and uncle sharpened lawn mowers and shears and there was a pair of shears over the front door. My dad drove for Beaumonts and the Reeves family lived almost next door. I played with Diana, Paul and Noel as a kid. Brian Wade and Tony Dixon lived round the corner in Emerson Road and Raymond Tormey lived at the top. Further along Wentworth road lived Maurice or Morrisj Smith. He did all the odd jobs at the Royalty Cinema and posted the bill advertising the next weeks films. I often helped him.
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That pair of shears over the front door was a real landmark. Thanks for the reminder.
 
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