Mark Tooze
master brummie
Not my photos but they do show Wastells:-
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Lozells Road, Shops, Pubs, Businesses etc
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Lloyd
master brummie
Was going to say the very same thing!
Richard Dye
master brummie
I remember those……on a rainy day with too much stuff in the bag, they could be big trouble. I think we paid 4d for them so we always seemed to want to fill them up as much as possible!
wastells would have been round about here
Yes big trouble if you put bag on pavement at bus stop on a rainy day
Iv got the T shirt
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Wow!!! Yes you had to buy that, I bet it was more than a penny though. A, don't put it down on a wet pavement bag. That is one of the later ones with string handles the earlier ones had rolled flattened paper handle they were more comfortable on your hands but didn't fair too well in the rain as the water ran down off your sleeve.
The previous post mentions the Villa Cross cinema. how many remember the Saturday morning kids films with the usual sing along..."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile". with the music and the word on the screen with the ball bouncing from word to word. The boos and cheers with the villain or hero, and the massive cheer that went up when the film broke or stopped in the projector and melted.
I think it was tupence or sixpence to go in but you could leave the queue pop to the loo on the right of the foyer then out the loo and straight into the theatre..
Bran
Wow!!! Yes you had to buy that, I bet it was more than a penny though. A, don't put it down on a wet pavement bag. That is one of the later ones with string handles the earlier ones had rolled flattened paper handle they were more comfortable on your hands but didn't fair too well in the rain as the water ran down off your sleeve.
The previous post mentions the Villa Cross cinema. how many remember the Saturday morning kids films with the usual sing along..."We come along on Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile". with the music and the word on the screen with the ball bouncing from word to word. The boos and cheers with the villain or hero, and the massive cheer that went up when the film broke or stopped in the projector and melted.
I think it was tupence or sixpence to go in but you could leave the queue pop to the loo on the right of the foyer then out the loo and straight into the theatre..
Bran
Richard Dye
master brummie
OMG, seems I did that more than once!
Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes, paid 4 pence for that!
And for sure at the Villa Cross every Saturday morning….
I took a younger cousin when I was a16 and the talking continued for the whole 2 hours. The younger kids never stopped!
Anyone remember the name of the furniture Store next to Wastells, I used to work on the furniture delivery vans delivering as far away as Smethwick and Handsworth, most of it must have been sold on the HP as occasionally we also follow the bailiff around collecting furniture if ever anyone answered the door!
The Pub in the top picture is the Lozells Inn....I had my 18th Birthday party in the room with the bay window at first floor in 1972....it was a surprise party organised by my mates and the team from Woolworths which is a bit further up the road on the right!
I was a regular visitor to the toyshop....couldn't wait to spend my pocket money on Airfix models and scale soldiers....the window was actually a large bay window, the right hand side return next to the wall was full of cheap Airfix models in plastic bags hanging in the window......the other shop was a pet shop, the window was always full of puppies and baby rabbits for sale, one day in the 1960's my aunt's house in Anglesey Street was burgled, one of the things stolen was her King Charles Spaniel, which was subsequently recovered from the window in the pet shop!!
In later years these two shops would have become Woolworths!....i worked there 1970 to 1974, first two years as a Saturday lad and then on and off between going to collegeHere is map c 1915 showing position of 89 & 91 in red
By the 1960's the two shops on the left of this photo subsequently became Woolworths, I think the shop next door or on the corner was a bakersOn the picture below (c1910) you can just see the Berners St name on the road leading off to the right. I reckon that means that no 91 is the shop on the far right which is not really in the photo, but where half the awning (with writing on) is visible, and 89 is the shop to the right of it with a plain awning
I know...it was one of several pubs in the area that got completely stripped out while closed down.....same happened to the New Inns in the Soho Road.....oddly the large Ansell's sign was still on the side wall last time I drove past although it had long since been converted to a shop
In the 1960's we lived in Wills Street, on a Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock it would be time to listen to the football results and check the pools coupon, this would be accompanied by tea, which was usually a pigs trotter!.....one day we came home to find my Dad boiling a pigs head... it was used to make Braun and tongue....the head would have come from Lens Butchers in George Street!...I remember it well, very only fashioned with sawdust on the floor and a big walk in freezer.....I was also sent there regularly as a child to buy "lights" , these were wrapped in paper.....and comprised pigs lungs....we would have ate them as faggots and they were also cooked up to feed the dog!......they were banned for human consumption in the 1980's!
All of the pubs I used regularly when I lived in Brum have long gone, the Lozells Inn (18th Birthday party), the Waterloo Stores, Burnt out and demolished, the Rocket in Nechells became a Mosque, the Farcroft in Handsworth ( 21st Birthday, Engagement Party and Wedding Reception) was converted to a Mosque...and the best pub of them all....The Uplands in Handsworth was demolished!
i lived in villa st from 58 to 72 lived almost opposite the vine pub and well remember lens butchers shop think his son colin took over when len retired and had a shop somewhere in sutton..my dad also had the pigs trotters..happy days down the old end..
lyn
Thats right, the bloke waiting to cross the road is standing right outside the shop that would later become Woolworths....i spent many lunchtimes sat eating dinner looking out of the middle bay window which became the staff canteen!