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High Street Erdington
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interesting photo pete...trying to place the exact spot..looks like a church steeple on the right but i cant place where it was its certainly not st barnabas church...will have to check some maps
lyn
pjmburns
master brummie
I think it might have been the Methodist Church
Streetview today shows similar shops still there.
Streetview today shows similar shops still there.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
The shops on the right gave way to W M Taylor and then Owen Owen. The church was on Newman Road I think.
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Taylors also had shops in Potters Hill, probably until the late 1950s, and one in King's Heath. For those interested there's a thread here about the Potters Hill shop :
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/taylors-of-potters-hill.26
I remember Taylors in Erdington High Street very well having worked in a Saturday job across the road for a few years. When it became Owen Owen I sometimes went in their cafe with friends after school, but didn't often buy anything. Previously as Taylors the clothes were perhaps a little outdated and what we'd call 'frumpy'. I wonder if this feeling continued as I didn't shop there when it became Owen Owen, preferred Chelsea Girl down towards Six Ways - more fashionable and exciting. And CG was much cheaper !
Source: British Newspaper Archive
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/taylors-of-potters-hill.26
I remember Taylors in Erdington High Street very well having worked in a Saturday job across the road for a few years. When it became Owen Owen I sometimes went in their cafe with friends after school, but didn't often buy anything. Previously as Taylors the clothes were perhaps a little outdated and what we'd call 'frumpy'. I wonder if this feeling continued as I didn't shop there when it became Owen Owen, preferred Chelsea Girl down towards Six Ways - more fashionable and exciting. And CG was much cheaper !
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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The rebuilding of W.M.Taylors in the 1960s and its takeover by Owen Owen in the 1970s. Must have been a sad, but predicted, end for Taylors.
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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It stood by Woolworths according to this extract.
The Woolworths site, the cottages were 'at the back of Easy Row'. What happened to Easy Row ? Was it once behind, and absorbed into, the later High Street development ? I've not seen Easy Row labelled on a map. Does anyone have one please?
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For info Woolworths was at 153 -157 High Street.
Thanks go to LadyPenelope who posted this view of the cottage(s) on another thread. The building gives a clearer impression of the building as virtually derelict in parts.
For some reason, the person in front of the building looks 'official' to me. (I wondered if it was the vicar - St Barnabas, premises belonging to the church? or a surveyor even ?) Or could this person have lived there ? At first I doubted it given the building's condition. But then I noticed the left-hand side looks in better condition and has 'arranged' curtains at the window. Someone may have, in fact, still occupied the building.
It looks like a large cottage, or was it two cottages (one derelict) ? I see multiple chimneys.
Thanks go to LadyPenelope who posted this view of the cottage(s) on another thread. The building gives a clearer impression of the building as virtually derelict in parts.
For some reason, the person in front of the building looks 'official' to me. (I wondered if it was the vicar - St Barnabas, premises belonging to the church? or a surveyor even ?) Or could this person have lived there ? At first I doubted it given the building's condition. But then I noticed the left-hand side looks in better condition and has 'arranged' curtains at the window. Someone may have, in fact, still occupied the building.
It looks like a large cottage, or was it two cottages (one derelict) ? I see multiple chimneys.
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viv the caption on post 370.. does it say easy row was opposite the national school on the high st..is the national school marked on a map..like you i have never heard of an easy row in erdington or have i confused myself
lyn
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I suggested the need for a map so we could look at the area marked blue. Woolwoorths (now B&M) was on the corner of Barnabas Road and High Street. So assumed Easy Row must have been on that site somewhere.
i think barnabas road is in between york road and new st..
mike how many properties were on easy row..i dont know how to get onto a census without a name....thanks
lyn
It seems to sometimes have 'High Street' added after the name Easy Row. I wondered if it was a passageway leading off High Street.
This (last paragraph) may/may not be connected to the cottage but, in any case it adds to Erdington history. A tollgate board was found in an ancient house behind Easy Row pre-WW! during its demolition. The house owned by George Machin was a soup kitchen. (Maybe we could check Machin's address). The board was given to Canon F S Swindell. Wonder why it was given to the vicar? Why was the board at the house in the first place ?
Source: British Newspaper Archive
This (last paragraph) may/may not be connected to the cottage but, in any case it adds to Erdington history. A tollgate board was found in an ancient house behind Easy Row pre-WW! during its demolition. The house owned by George Machin was a soup kitchen. (Maybe we could check Machin's address). The board was given to Canon F S Swindell. Wonder why it was given to the vicar? Why was the board at the house in the first place ?
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Just found a G H Machin who was a parish warden at Erdington Parish Church in 1901.
according to the 1901 census george henry machin lived at no 165 high st erdington..occupation registrar of births marriages and deaths
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
A problem is that High Street Erdington would not appear in the Birmingham Kelly’s until it became part of Birmingham in around 1910.
It seems most likely that it was behind the premises in High Street and accessed by a passageway, and just a few cottages. Although it may have been to insufficient to name on the OS 1880’s map the structures should be drawn.
It seems most likely that it was behind the premises in High Street and accessed by a passageway, and just a few cottages. Although it may have been to insufficient to name on the OS 1880’s map the structures should be drawn.
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