Kings Norton

[Fentham]

Edit. Many photos from this thread have been lost. If anyone has copies please let a moderator know. Thanks.

Replacement images below, may vary from originals posted here. The first three are from Birmingham Library archives. The fourth is a 1956 postcard view.

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These 4 photos were sent to me by a relative in America.I think they are all from Kings Norton Green.Can anyone confirm this for me please?

Most definitely Kings Norton Green. We live there. Fentham

 

[Vivienne14]

A very familiar scene from our younger days for many of us. All that was needed was a trickle of water. This was in Kings Norton Park. Viv.

 

[Pedrocut]

January 1977, Birmingham Post....Triplex

 

[Vivienne14]

A charming image of the Green dated 1909.

Viv.

 

[Pedrocut]

General view from railway station of Kings Norton, Birmingham. E.H. Sergeant. 1938.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

 

[mikejee]

Here is a photograph of the Old Bell pub , at 5, The Green Kings Norton, also shown in the postcard on post 64. The landlord, James Fletcher can be seen above the entrance. He is listed there in directories in 1915 and 1921, but not 1913, and is on the electoral roll in 1922, but not in 1925

 

[mikejee]

Her is a corner shop in Camp Lane, Kings Norton. The street name around corner is indistinct, but is almost certainly Station Road.

 

[pjmburns]

I think this is the building

Seems to have become a house in about 2016

 

[Neil M]

I lived in Kings Norton until 2016 and before the corner shop became residential it was a small store/café The Last Chance Post and then a few years later The Toast Office but I don't think it ever regained the interest or presence of the original in post#67 despite the witty names chosen by their owners!

 

[Astoness]

I lived in Kings Norton until 2016 and before the corner shop became residential it was a small store/café The Last Chance Post and then a few years later The Toast Office but I don't think it ever regained the interest or presence of the original in post#67 despite the witty names chosen by their owners!

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seems an obvious question given the name and the post box outside but was it ever an actual post office..

lyn

 

[Neil M]

Well it's a good question! But I'm afraid I don't know the answer. I don't remember it ever being a post office in the late '70s but it might well have been before that. Foolishly I just assumed the names related to the post box on the doorstep.....

 

[Chota]

I am new here and enjoying reading about Kings Norton. I moved there in 1945 and went first to the local school and then on to Kings Norton Grammar school. After doing my nurse’s training in Worcester I returned to Birmingham to do my midwifery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and worked in Ladywood and then back at the Q E on the maternity wards. I married a Dr and we came to Canada 1972. I have many fond memories of Birmingham and finding this forum very helpful by jogging my memory while writing my memoirs for my family

 

[Astoness]

Well it's a good question! But I'm afraid I don't know the answer. I don't remember it ever being a post office in the late '70s but it might well have been before that. Foolishly I just assumed the names related to the post box on the doorstep.....

now that is a good point neil...maybe its name did relate to the post box outside...never thought of that

lyn

 

[mikejee]

Certainly does not seem to have been one since WW2

 

[Neil M]

Certainly does not seem to have been one since WW2

but Camp Lane does have a redeeming historical link which is that it commemorates the time in the 1660s when Queen Henrietta Maria's army camped out near the church on Kings Norton Green - she stayed at The Saracens Head (next to the church) which was recently renovated but is currently mothballed, or appears to be.