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Newtown Row shops

Also at the junction of Asylum Road/Bracebridge Street, the building numbers changed direction i.e. from Six Ways to Asylum Road they increased but from Asylum Road towards city centre they decreased.
 

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Coincidentally, I had a "disagreement" with someone on FB about this same question. A picture of the House That Jack Built was posted, prompting a response that it was on Newtown Row. I replied that it was on High St Aston, which started at Asylum Rd, Aston Brook/Bracebridge St junction and ended at Six Ways. As mentioned here, High St, at least up to Barton's Arms, was known as Newtown Row, or just "The Row". From the Bartons up to Six Ways, High St was commonly known as the Monkey Run.
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As I wrote last year, when I uploaded the Six Ways video, I've made some panoramic image videos of Aston using public domain photos. I did this for my kids & Grandkids to see what it was like for me growing up. This one of "Newtown Row" shops in High St was a bit trickier. Using research and other images, I still had to "make up" some sections myself.
 
Banjo said:
As I wrote last year, when I uploaded the Six Ways video, I've made some panoramic image videos of Aston using public domain photos. I did this for my kids & Grandkids to see what it was like for me growing up. This one of "Newtown Row" shops in High St was a bit trickier. Using research and other images, I still had to "make up" some sections myself.
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Excellent work Banjo, love the sound effects and the occasional horn.
 
Banjo said:
As I wrote last year, when I uploaded the Six Ways video, I've made some panoramic image videos of Aston using public domain photos. I did this for my kids & Grandkids to see what it was like for me growing up. This one of "Newtown Row" shops in High St was a bit trickier. Using research and other images, I still had to "make up" some sections myself.
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Brilliant - like going back in a time warp!!
 
Banjo said:
As I wrote last year, when I uploaded the Six Ways video, I've made some panoramic image videos of Aston using public domain photos. I did this for my kids & Grandkids to see what it was like for me growing up. This one of "Newtown Row" shops in High St was a bit trickier. Using research and other images, I still had to "make up" some sections myself.
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Outstanding Banjo! This is deja vue for me. Many many thanks!
 
Thank you all for the comments. I should have added that my Dad was a barman at the Waggon & Horses in 1959. I spent many a Saturday afternoon in the snug after it had closed waiting for my Dad to finish. Most times, enjoying a Monk's pork pie and a glass of pop.
 
Banjo said:
Thank you all for the comments. I should have added that my Dad was a barman at the Waggon & Horses in 1959. I spent many a Saturday afternoon in the snug after it had closed waiting for my Dad to finish. Most times, enjoying a Monk's pork pie and a glass of pop.
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very good chance your dad served our dad then banjo...what a great area that was for shopping and the pubs of course...and now look at it..desolate;)

lyn
 
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ER Allen said:
I don't see any image or thumbnail. Would like to see photo!
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images posted before about november 2010 were lost due to the forum being hacked...since then many have been reposted but that depends on whether the original posters are still members...

lyn
 
Astoness said:
very good chance your dad served our dad then banjo...what a great area that was for shopping and the pubs of course...and now look at it..desolate;)

lyn
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So very true Lyn. My home patch roughly covered Six Ways to Asylum Rd and Victoria Rd/Potters Hill through to Wheeler St. Apart from the Barton Arms, the Shareholders pub building (wedding reception in 1967), St Paul's church and my old Gower St school building on Lozells Rd, absolutely everything else has gone!
 
Banjo said:
So very true Lyn. My home patch roughly covered Six Ways to Asylum Rd and Victoria Rd/Potters Hill through to Wheeler St. Apart from the Barton Arms, the Shareholders pub building (wedding reception in 1967), St Paul's church and my old Gower St school building on Lozells Rd, absolutely everything else has gone!
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hi banjo i take it that would have been the new build shareholders not the original pub

lyn
 
do not think so mac...i think some time ago it was used as a storage place but it looks abandoned now...below todays st view..a friend of mine worked as a barmaid there for a few years

lyn

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Astoness said:
do not think so mac...i think some time ago it was used as a storage place but it looks abandoned now...below todays st view..a friend of mine worked as a barmaid there for a few years

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My word it looks ready for demolition , Pat Brennan had that for a while after he left M&B's he put some work into that pub , looking at it now makes you wonder if it was all worth it . When it was a Ansells house an ex manager said to me about a pub wer were talking about if Mr Brennan wouldn't take it on it must be bad ., just look at this now . What a shame
 
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My word it looks ready for demolition , Pat Brennan had that for a while after he left M&B's he put some work into that pub , looking at it now makes you wonder if it was all worth it . When it was a Ansells house an ex manager said to me about a pub wer were talking about if Mr Brennan wouldn't take it on it must be bad ., just look at this now . What a shame
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i believe pat brennan was instrumental in the revival of the old crown at digbeth
 
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Banjo said:
Yes Lyn, the building that is there today was the Shareholders in 1967. Not sure when the original pub was demolished.
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hi bango yes i knew that...what i meant was was it the new shareholders where you had your wedding reception...cant be certain but i think the original one would have been demolished late 50s early 60s but thats only a guess..

lyn
 
Astoness said:
hi bango yes i knew that...what i meant was was it the new shareholders where you had your wedding reception...cant be certain but i think the original one would have been demolished late 50s early 60s but thats only a guess..

lyn
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Sorry about confusion, it was the new Shareholders where our wedding reception was held in Feb 1967.
 
Banjo said:
Yes Lyn, the building that is there today was the Shareholders in 1967. Not sure when the original pub was demolished.
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Hi, just to let you know the original pub wasn't demolished! Believe it or not, they built the new one around us and kept the pub open! People think it moved across the road but they actually rerouted Park Lane and left The Shares isolated on the corner of what had been Park Lane & Potters Lane. I remember the rebuilding very clearly and the chaps who did the building and woodwork. One of the joiners made my mum a table, which I still have, and made me a doll's cradle, which I don't have. We moved out on my 8th birthday in 1962 to The Stork Inn on High St/ Asylum Road.
 
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