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thanks dave... yes its the black and whites one i wanted... i think the one moss put on is an old one too..hope he has still got it...

many thanks..

cheers...

lyn x
 
some of you may find this of interest...its for the kids really but maybe some grandparents may want to take the grandchildren to it and its for a very good cause...miles pet shop is on the hawthorn road....

lyn
 
moss i dont think that was the pic you posted before as i cant remember it... but its a cracking shot..its deffinately the shops that include miles pet shop i would say...

thanks everso..

lyn
 
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morning dek..yes it threw me for a second as until recently there was a cycle shop for years opposite the co op....but its deffinately the miles pet shop end...

lyn
 
Dek I have asked before but am I dreaming or was there a Hammonds Organ shop opposite the Co-op. Pete says there was. Jean.
 
Hello Lyn,The only other picture of that block of shops with Miles in it, is this one.But i doubt if it is the one you are looking for.Moss.
 
I don't think this one has been on here before,it was taken in 1928.I am told it is a photo looking along Hawthorn Rd from College Rd.
It shows the wall of the isolation hospital on the left.This is where Perry Common Library now stands.By the way the library re opens next Monday.Moss.
 
Hi all , the bike shop by Miles eventually became a Halfords , and i bought my first adult bike there a 5 speed racer by Sun. The Organ shop further down the Hawthorn rd i believe was Taylors , it sold hi fi's and organs , i used to buy my vinyls from their too , it had a great little record kiosk.

Ian
 
Another lovely old photo moss keep em coming but it,s left me a little puzzled if the wall on the left is as you say the old hospital and the library was built there how come when you look down Hawthorn Rd from Kingstanding Rd the Library is on the right hand side was the road moved over to build the houses.Dek
 
moss i think thats the one..thanks ever so much....the reason i am asking for any old pics is as some of you may know miles petshop has been there for many years now...50 or 60 i think and one of the girls who works there is setting up a little websiite for chris the owner..it was his dad who opened the shop...so many thanks to dave and moss for reposting these pics...

lyn..x
 
I don,t think it,s the Ridgeway as it shows houses on both sides of the road the Witton Cemetery wall goes from one end to the Ridgeway to the other.Dek
 
Hello MossyG. I am sure this was the shop we bought our first Radio Gram. [which we still have in the loft] I might be able to tell you the year we bought it. Also think this was where the fish and chip shop was. Used to buy 2 pennyworth of chips in a sort of cone made of news paper. Miriam.
 
Ian thanks it was Taylors. I think the name of the organs they sold were Hammond. #713 I am sure this shop became a second hand shop and one of the owners were from the Band Quill. Jean.
 
Remember the library from the 1940s and can still recall the distinct aroma from the books (all the books were bound at that time) and the polished oak floor.There was an area of charred floor that had been caused by an incendiary bomb going through the roof.At that time kids could borrow one fiction and one non-fiction book for a period of two weeks and late returns were charged 2d.a week.Spent many winter evenings lost in books borrowed from the library and still have fond memories of many of them.
There was the Octogan library at the top of Hawthorn Road for a while.It cost 2d a week (I think it was) to borrow books from there
 
Moss. Your pic of Allen's TV/Radio shop is definitely on the corner of Warren Road and Hawthorn Rd. I remember it well. (It's on the opposite side of the Co-op. My mum bought my first pair of ice-skating boots from that Co-op.They used to have a shoe department there). My mum also used to run Wright's Bread shop next to Taylors HiFi shop. She remembers when Les Dawson did the opening ceremony for Taylors shop (I think it was when they refurbished it in the 1960s/70s). If you look on street view Google maps at the corner of Warren and Hawthorn Road you can match the steep slope very clearly with Moss's pic. I remember that steep slope - nightmare in winter! Viv.
 
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