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lawford street, duddeston.

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stevie.b-123

master brummie
hello all,
i'm looking for any info on lawford street, duddeston. i have a reference to this street on the 1901 census but it does not seem to exist now. i've found a lawford close but not sure. could the reference be a mistake by the enumerator. (think it could be lawley st.)
thanks,
steve.
 
Stevie
It was close to lawley st, running parallel to it. Lawley st is the road at an angle accross the bottom left hand corner of the map (c 1910) Viaduct st and St James St are still there. there is a Lawford close, but I'm not sure if that actually runs over any part of what was Lawford St.
Mike

lawford_st_c_1910.jpg
 
mikejee, thanks for the map. shame i cannot print it off.
postie, great picture. it just shows the conditions our reles lived in. i remember living in houses just like these in heanage st in the early 1960's. shame you don't have a picture of 2 court. (thats where my gt grandfather lived in 1901)...............or do you????
thanks,
steve.
 
I lived 4 srteets up the Vauxhall rd from lawford st i don,t remember any houses from the middle 50s in lawford st and st james Place they must have been some of the first to be demolished. a small park was built on the corner of St James PLace and Vauxhall Rd hardcore base 4 swings 1 see saw 1 roundabout the rest of the ground was laid bare between the viaduct and Lawley St untill they built small factory units on it . Dek
 
Dek

You are right about the park, with one exception it was a black clinker ash surface. It seemed that most of the small parks in that area were surfaced with it. Must have been the war, it must have caused a shortage of grass. There again if we had seen what grass was like we might have aspired to better things.

Phil
 
Phil you,re right black clinker the only time we saw grass is when we went for a day out at Ward End Park as for birds it was pigeons, sparrows and starlings and that was it although when the srarlings came in to roost at night it was something to behold like a black cloud dipping and diving fantastic sight. Dek
 
dek carr said:
Phil you,re right black clinker the only time we saw grass is when we went for a day out at Ward End Park as for birds it was pigeons, sparrows and starlings and that was it although when the srarlings came in to roost at night it was something to behold like a black cloud dipping and diving fantastic sight. Dek
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I remember them in Colemore Row, what a terrible noise they made. Glad they are now gone and the buildings stay clean.
 
I have just thought of something I had a memory recall of another forum does anyone remember a man who kept pigs in the middle 50s on the waste ground by the side of the park next to Lawford St it would be where the Garage stands now. Dek
 
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