My grandad used to use the London tavernHi Phil
Many thanks for those brilliant pics of bye Gone. Years I will down load them it really is a huge transformation from the given time period
What do you think the horse and cart was carrying Phil..
For all the crowds was awaiting the arrival it seems was it a coffin of inportants do you think was it chaberlin or some one connected to the city
Of Birmingham , maybe any answer to that
I see the old Crawford street on the right next to the pub just cannot. Think of the name at the moment
I only went in there twice when I met my old dutchess for the first time when we was courting with then the future father in law
He was a well known man in the Irish community and when we walked in every body came up and spoke to him
And the pints of Guinea,s was lined up across the bar counter one by one they came and bought him and me the Guinness
But being young and not a boozer then I said he would have to finish it and he did
Phil there used to be another pub directly across the road can you recall that name of that one
It was next to the start of the shops and there was a telephone out sdide it
It was demolished when they built that trading estate that's there in the late fifties
Have a good day Phil even thou the weather is rubbish ha,best wishes Alan. Astonian,,,,
After the war we moved to Great Barr but dad kept the bakery going into the 1970's. We used to have drink in the Tilt Hammer on Saturday lunchtimes after all the baking was finished. There was an off licence on the corner of Adderly Rd and High St.
I can remember Bentleys the Taylor, a watch shop where I was bought my first watch, the vets, Chaplins, Abbots cars, Arthur Wallis the greengrocer, etc.
Around the corner in Adderly road there was a sweet shop, a green grocer and barbers shop near where the number 8 bus stopped. Everyone called the barber Denis because he looked like Denis Compton!
I have sorted the other photo out, the one that is tagged Saltley High St Recruitment Parade 1914. I see in this photo it is gun carriages that are being drawn by the horses.
the vets fasinated me when we past i looked in the window at the animal skelitons,and item that had been eating and was in the stomachsAfter the war we moved to Great Barr but dad kept the bakery going into the 1970's. We used to have drink in the Tilt Hammer on Saturday lunchtimes after all the baking was finished. There was an off licence on the corner of Adderly Rd and High St.
I can remember Bentleys the Taylor, a watch shop where I was bought my first watch, the vets, Chaplins, Abbots cars, Arthur Wallis the greengrocer, etc.
Around the corner in Adderly road there was a sweet shop, a green grocer and barbers shop near where the number 8 bus stopped. Everyone called the barber Denis because he looked like Denis Compton!
Thanks so much for displaying the photo of the bakers shop where I was born. It brings back so many memories around the war time when the area was under threat of bombing at the "Met" who were making Tanks.
Do you know the date of the photo?
I think the fishing tackle shop was run by Jimmy Chaplin. He was next door to our bakery. He did a lot of dealings in war surplus material after the war and got a lot bigger. He had a big american car around 1948-9 and it caused quite a stir parked in High St!
we used Jimmy Chaplains for all our fishing gear. me and dad walked from nechells. i loved having a mooch in there. i was about 6.I remember Jimmy Chaplains shop mainly as it was around 1947-1948 when I was about 10. War surplus was big business and I remember Goggles , water bottles, ammunition boxes and lots of electric/ electronic walkie Talkie equipment being available. My dad was a big mate of Potter the pork butcher in Alum Rock and they did some business together as butcher and Baker in post war Birmingham
I remember Jimmy Chaplains shop mainly as it was around 1947-1948 when I was about 10. War surplus was big business and I remember Goggles , water bottles, ammunition boxes and lots of electric/ electronic walkie Talkie equipment being available.
a wonderfull aladdins cave. i still have my fishing rods. ..they were the only place i know that sold the blanks,so you could make your own rodsHi,
I bought a beautiful brass Silvertown Telegraph Galvanometer ( a phone line tester) from Jimmy
Chaplain in the seventies. He asked me what it was, and when I told him, he said ' Well, as
you know what it is, you can have it for a fiver, and you better have the leather cas
Stay safe
Kind regards
Dave
were about was that shop? was it by the cafe?
Next to Gate Innwere about was that shop? was it by the cafe?
I remember in the 60's buying my first record from that record shop, and my first guitar from the second-hand shop nearby. Come to think of it I bought a bike there too