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New John Street West between Summer Lane & Newtown Row circa 50/60s

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Tom Ross

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I am new to this brilliant site. My name is Tom Ross and grew up at 2/437 New John St West. I went to St Chads RC infants Juniors and Seniors. I would love to see any pics of the school or street. Living "up the entry" as we called it was fantastic. at the front of the entry was Millmans Shop.
 
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Goalzone said:
I am new to this brilliant site. My name is Tom Ross and grew up at 2/437 New John St West.
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Hi Goalzone - Welcome to the forum. There are five viewable photos on the forum with 'New John St' in their file names, the links are below
37-39 New John Street West #124
This Court Was Next To 58. New John Street West.#124
Newtown New John St Great Hampton Row. #848
George Fisher barbers,corner of Gt Hampton Row and New John St West.#9
Great Hampton row New John Street #75
There are nine photos in the forum image host 'Coppermine'. Most of them were uploaded by a forum member who had saved them before the forum was hacked in 2011.
You could see them yourself in Coppermine or I could make them appear in this thread.
 
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Good morning Tom and welcome to the forum .The only picture i can find of this stretch of New John St West is this one, looking from Newtown Row towards Summer Lane.
Moss.
 

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This brilliant..I remember the furniture shop on corner..opposite corner was the WHITE HORSE pub..I got the 19 city circle to Blues with my Dad every other Sat.if you look up street past bus..I lived at 2/437 up the entry behind Milmans shop-great memories when life was about people and not what size TV you owned
 
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Hi Tom,here is a picture of The White Horse,not very good quality i'm afraid.Moss
 

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hi tom and welcome to the forum...listened to you many times on the radio and was hoping one day you may find this forum as i knew you lived in njsw....not sure if you are interested in seeing pics of all the pubs that were on the lane but here is a link to them...we lost the original postings of them when the site was hacked but i have reposted them all which starts at post 117 on the below link...i take it you went to st chads school in brearley st just down from the stag pub..if so i have just one very poor pic of it...will sort it out and post it for you...

lyn

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=29653&page=8&highlight=pubs+summer+lane
 
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here you go tom...as said earlier its not a very good pic of the school but the only one i have seen to date....dated 1983

lyn

 
mossg said:
Hi Tom,here is a picture of The White Horse,not very good quality i'm afraid.Moss
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Why do we (well I mean me really) assume that a man lurking outside a pub is up to no good?! Apologies if this man is someones relation/ancestor! But you've got to ask yourself, why isn't he INSIDE the pub enjoying himself? Viv..
 
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totally agree viv...lurking outside is no good for anyone lol
 
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Viv
Maybe he didn't have any money, and was waiting for the bookies runner to come with his winnings, so that he could go inside and have a drink. Or, perhaps he was waiting for his wife to come out of work with her wages, so that he could go inside and have a drink
 
I'll go with your 'bookies runner' theory Mike. Thinking it was his lucky day, he'd had a flutter on a white horse ! Viv.
 
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My old School..the nearest green gates were for the Infants and the far ones for the seniors-I loved that school
 
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Thanks so much for some brilliant pics of my old school and the one of the No19 bus is brilliant because I can almost see where I lived at 2/437-thank you all
 
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Goalzone said:
Thanks so much for some brilliant pics of my old school and the one of the No19 bus is brilliant because I can almost see where I lived at 2/437-thank you all
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happy to oblige goalzone...there are a couple of njsw threads on here with plenty of photos..

lyn
 
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Although there are some very similar photos to these three on here and on the linked pages I have checked and I don't think they are quit the same, obviously they have been taken at a later or earlier time.
 

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mikejee said:
Viv
Maybe he didn't have any money, and was waiting for the bookies runner to come with his winnings, so that he could go inside and have a drink. Or, perhaps he was waiting for his wife to come out of work with her wages, so that he could go inside and have a drink
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Maybe he WAS the bookies runner, or he was waiting for the pub to open, not all day opening like now.

Nick
 
Tom Ross said:
I am new to this brilliant site. My name is Tom Ross and grew up at 2/437 New John St West. I went to St Chads RC infants Juniors and Seniors. I would love to see any pics of the school or street. Living "up the entry" as we called it was fantastic. at the front of the entry was Millmans Shop.
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Hi my name is Andrew Meah and I grew up not to far from you I lived at 4/356 New John St West I attended St Georges infant/junior and Comprehensive school we were the first year to go through the whole comprehensive school as it was built ready for our year to start in the first year I lived there in the early 1960s and my mom had a cafe on New John st in the early 60s I remember there being a bomb peck at the bottom of the houses where we played and had all our bonfire nights good memories there was a cake shop on the corner with Wheeler Street called Baines did a cracking Pineapple tart
 
hi andrew and welcome...thanks for your first post i hope tom picks it up but hes not been on the forum for some time...if you have any old photos of your part of njsw we would love to see them as they are very thin on the ground

lyn
 
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