thats a lovely photo viv...of course back in those days to the people in it those wonderful buildings would have been the norm...to us now they are yet more lost treasures
lyn
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lyn
Good to find more fine buildings have survived in Kings Heath High Street. This view is near the junction with Drayton Road. It's easy to forget that shops like these were built with accommodation above the shop. Originally many were not just shops, but homes which offered a living below. Now they're mostly separate entities or storerooms.
superdad3
master brummie
Kings Heath: High Street
Took me a while to work out where about this was on the High Street. Realised that the building on the extreme right was the library. All changed now.
The library opened in 1906. Next door was a Seventh Day Adventist chapel. This became Hope Chapel in the 1920s. In the 1970s Hope Chapel moved to the corner of Reddings Rd, Moseley and the building was demolished and the library extended.
When we came to the area [end of 1960s] Fodens Eectrical occupied the corner shop and had a magnificant hanging collection of light shades for sale. Next door was Fallons a plumbers merchants.
Took me a while to work out where about this was on the High Street. Realised that the building on the extreme right was the library. All changed now.
The library opened in 1906. Next door was a Seventh Day Adventist chapel. This became Hope Chapel in the 1920s. In the 1970s Hope Chapel moved to the corner of Reddings Rd, Moseley and the building was demolished and the library extended.
When we came to the area [end of 1960s] Fodens Eectrical occupied the corner shop and had a magnificant hanging collection of light shades for sale. Next door was Fallons a plumbers merchants.
Some memories extracted from Carl Chinn's Evening Mail column
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Godber
master brummie
As mentioned in another thread, I once saw Bob Price and Cyril Fletcher as they walked past me after filming an episode of Gardening Today at the Kings Heath Park garden, probably around 1980.
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