Hi Lyn
The photo just says court no 44 Tower St. As well as houses there was a workshop and St Nicholas sunday School.
stars
This is the Junction of Newtown Row (to the right) and Bracebridge St with Aston Brook St to the left. Dekcant be certain but i think that bracebridge st is to the right of this pic...
Hi Lyn,yes phil its the gt hampton row shops....when we left villa st we moved to uxbridge st just off gt hampton row so i knew those shops well...the tower block on the right is rea tower the one on the the right is teviot tower..little brown jug pub just out of shot on the left
lyn
I was born n Manchester St 1936 and between Manchester and Brewery St was green grocers a butcher a pork butcher Alcocks were i worked part tme while at school then news agents Bellas a barbers Blowers opposite Lower tower St net to that was W shillcocks were l worked after leaving school next to that was another green grocers then the post office then another butchers then on the corner of Brewery st was Boadhurst scrap dealersjust looked a my map mike...so they were more or less opposite lower tower st then..hard to beleive....
lyn
The pork butchers shop was part of Shillcocks before the butchers and was the shop that the F A cup was stollen fromI was born n Manchester St 1936 and between Manchester and Brewery St was green grocers a butcher a pork butcher Alcocks were i worked part tme while at school then news agents Bellas a barbers Blowers opposite Lower tower St net to that was W shillcocks were l worked after leaving school next to that was another green grocers then the post office then another butchers then on the corner of Brewery st was Boadhurst scrap dealers
Willlam Shillcocks was a football boots and rugby boots manufacturer i worked there early 50snewtown row looking towards city centre. 1978.a few yards behind the city bound bus is no 78 the shop of william shillocks boot and shoe repairers where the original fa cup ws stolen from in 1895..
my nans house was like that in 1950s. i loved the gas lighting,and candles to bedHere is a photo of a living room in a house in Gee St Newtown in 1920.
note it still has gas lighting, and comes complete with the hole in the celing.
and the rope clothes line hanging above the fire.
Regards stars
I was born in a three-storey council house in Newtown Row - opposite a quite large church (St John's?). Once a week I went with my parents to the sixpenny seats at the local fleapit The Globe Cinema (nearly opposite the Barton Arms.) Once in while, we also went to a rather posher cinema The Orient, which was nearly at Six Ways. Anybody remember any of these?
I remember the Orient!I was born in a three-storey council house in Newtown Row - opposite a quite large church (St John's?). Once a week I went with my parents to the sixpenny seats at the local fleapit The Globe Cinema (nearly opposite the Barton Arms.) Once in while, we also went to a rather posher cinema The Orient, which was nearly at Six Ways. Anybody remember any of these?