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Ladywood Road

  • #17 Bob Johnson posted this in another thread - entitled Not Making Anymore.
Spring Hill.
Where Spring Hill library now stands there used to be a 'spring well', this was supposed to have curative properties.

I have seen the area referred to as St. Mary's Wood but that, I believe is a later (post reformation name). I suggest it would have been Our Lady's Wood, hence the name we have now.
 
Bob Johnson said:
The first picture 'Security Scaffolds' I would suggest is Spring Hill. George st west is behind the photographer and Steward st can be seen at the end of the shops to the right.
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thanks bob..maybe someone with access to kellys could look that up to confirm spring hill..

lyn
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The Spring Hill photo is in this thread: Post 18, photo 9

Spring Hill

Looking towards Spring Hill from Summer Hill Road, the only constant seems to be the Library. So through time we have .... Early 1900s/1910 ? (sorry, no specific date). A very busy junction and cabman's shelter in the middle of the road. Maybe a cinema (?) opposite the Library on Summer Hill...
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What is in these evocative black and white pictures that we remember but don't see today? The corner shop not a myth or historians joke, but a living entity and look how many there were. Another prominent t corner building was the pub a great many streets had one on the corner. Funny how these pictures have interest and character much as I love the colour pictures of Ell et al that we see today these pictures have atmosphere. I am a lover of the black and white photo. My interest in Ladywood raises from the fact that when Victor Yates was the local MP, my Dad who found that this was not a land fit for heroes and the job he had pre war was not for him post war, so he became the conservative agent for Lady wood, there was a coterie of Tories in Ladywood and I often accompanied him as he toured the ward and of course at elections I helped, delivering leaflets, a runner at polling booths, he was quite succeßful and I made lots of friends in those corner shops and back to backs and got to know Ladywood very well. It was quite a large ward. He also got on very well with Victor Yates, but then Dad found out what the Tories did best, the knife in the back and various promises denied. However he went on to better things and the best job he ever had, until his early death in 1964
Bob
 
thanks bob nice post..i am just glad i grew up when life was in my humble opinion a lot slower and simpler..streets were full of life..neighbours always ready to help out in times of trouble...pubs were full of people putting the world to rights over game of dominos or darts i could go on...our social history and community spirit has changed so much over the past 50 years and while i do accept we must move on i dont have to like it all :(

bob as you have an interest in ladywood i will check my files as i may have a few more streets and road photos i have not posted yet

lyn
 
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Astoness said:
thanks bob nice post..i am just glad i grew up when life was in my humble opinion a lot slower and simpler..streets were full of life..neighbours always ready to help out in times of trouble...pubs were full of people putting the world to rights over game of dominos or darts i could go on...our social history and community spirit has changed so much over the past 50 years and while i do accept we must move on i dont have to like it all :(

bob as you have an interest in ladywood i will check my files as i may have a few more streets and road photos i have not posted yet

lyn
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Yes times were different then, people had pride, pride in their home whether back to back or a mansion, pride in their job and it went through every strata of society. Of course jeans and trainers were not common place and my Dad would wear a suit, tie and his trilby to go and see Villa play and the other great thing about those days was family, there was always family around. Perhaps someone can confirm or correct me, but I remember that Rotton Park Road featured in the Ladywood ward somehow, but was surprised last time I was up there to see that it ran into Hagley Road

Bob
 
Astoness said:
hi folks i have set of photos that i dont think i have posted yet so hope they prove of interest to members...hover over them to see dates taken and in some cases the numbers...i thought photo 14 was interesting as it shows a domestic employment agency..all gone now :(

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Hi Lynn
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hi folks i have set of photos that i dont think i have posted yet so hope they prove of interest to members...hover over them to see dates taken and in some cases the numbers...i thought photo 14 was interesting as it shows a domestic employment agency..all gone now :(

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Hi Lyn, Great photos, thank you. Picture number 7 is actually Ryland Street, which was off Broad Street. I knew it very well, we used all the shops along there at one time. The shop just before Johnson's fruit shop was our Chip Shop. Great 4 penny worth chips!! Keep the photos coming!
 
thanks for that correction denise...always good if members know the area..posted some of prescott st earlier if you are interested

lyn

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hi folks i have set of photos that i dont think i have posted yet so hope they prove of interest to members...hover over them to see dates taken and in some cases the numbers...i thought photo 14 was interesting as it shows a domestic employment agency..all gone now :(

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Lyn pic 3 the name Ridout I don't know whether it was this Ridout or another that was on Dudley Road after Ladywood Rd was demolished where I used to go and pay a neighbours hp for her television . Another chestnut back in those days was , imagine a very wet Saturday afternoon I was about 9/10 coming back from the Crown picture house, running through the mud created by demolished houses I came across a particular sticky patch straight through it or so I thought . I then looked down only to see the worst no left shoe . Mom's going to go mad what can she do at 4.30 Saturday afternoon and school on Monday . I was right she hit the ceiling , but as always out she went and come back with a new pair of shoes what a stalwart thanks Mom
 
ahh bless yer mom john...in fact bless them all.. very often going without so that we did not :)

lyn
 
Great photo’s Lyn, working at Spring Hill, I use to attend a dentist on monument road. No 8 route. It’s like every where the changes with time. Thankful for historians and BHF.
 
The Beeches on Ladywood Road in 1909. This was at 156 Ladywood Road. Viv.

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Subsidence in 1961. Onlookers seem to be a bit too close to the edge !
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Thanks for posting the photos I had several relatives that lived in Ladywood , Ryland / broad street area (Moxon's, Boultons, Callaghans /Masons ) my 3 x great Uncle was Publican of The Station Inn at 24 Ladywood road on the 1901 Census. Its brilliant reading everyone's memories
 
Sadly my extensive collection of Victorian and Edwardian portraits don't include many street scenes. But here is Daisy Living (who became Daisy Forrester) with her employer Frank Jones outside his ladies' clothes shop at 108 Ladywood Road. It was printed on a postcard and Daisy sent it to my grandparents. for Christmas. Frank must have done these as a business promotion. Early years of last century - the franking doesn't include the date. Anyone care to date it from the hats in his window?

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Hi Stokkie, I don't know if you are aware but No. 108 is shown on one of Lyn's pics at the start of the thread.

EDIT: and also on the picture showing the Billiards Hall
 

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brummy-lad said:
Hi Stokkie, I don't know if you are aware but No. 108 is shown on one of Lyn's pics at the start of the thread.

EDIT: and also on the picture showing the Billiards Hall
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Thank you John,
No, I missed this. I see that there's a narrow entry to the right of 108 too. I never knew Ladywood Road well myself as we lived in Bearwood. Mom brought me to see Reservoir Terrace in about 1963. We mostly visited the Reservoir or Coxwell Road where her old friend lived. I last visited Osler street about 15 years ago.
Derek
 
He is not listed there in 1910 edition (which probably refers to 1909),, nor in the 1946 edition (probably refers to 1945), but is listed in the 1944 edition
 
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