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nursery rd/villa st

Here are a few more missing photo's



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Regards Stars
 
Smashing pics Stars. Walked up and down there a fare few times, had friends from school live in most of the roads off Nursery Rd.
 
thanks for reposting some of my favourites stars..ive got these and plenty more in A4 glossy pics so i will get a few more back on asap...topsy i must have walked up and down nursery road thousands of times in the 14 years i lived there but i just cant recall the st silas mission rooms on the corner of wellesley st..could be it was demolished when i was quite young..
the j abrahalls building that was next to the crown inn is still there...
happy days...

lyn
 
thanks stars..all 3 pics looking towards nursery road..first pic shows nursery road junction..
 
I am sure i remember the chapel in the early 60s being there ,after that i can,t quite remember .
Lovely pictures, Brings back a lot of memories standing on the corners eating our chips from nursey road chip shop in our dinner break from school.
 
topsy if you go to the first pic on post 61 you will see half a building next to the mission hall...they made surgical appliances and i think from memory it was artificial limbs...i do have another pic somewhere of the complete building...will try and find it..

lyn
 
Hi Astoness
I have blown it up a bit, it's a bit fuzy but it shows the Appliances place on the wall.
and i think that lady with her foot on the wall is waiting to use the phone.



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Stars
 
yes stars i think she is too...i used to use the one further down..just going to hunt for that other pic of the building..
 
some more from my collection..this first one is of george copes peal button makers who was at nos..152/154 villa st.i lived at 118 so it was not too far up from my house..as you can see by the condition the houses and buildings in villa st and indeed brougham street we built quite some time before the other surrounding streets and so they had to go...all the other streets going up nursery road on the left hand side were spared and renovated..


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Cracking photo's Lyn. I had relatives who were pearl button makes, i woder if any worked
for George copes , could be as they lived around there.



Stars
 
good chance of it eric..this is not a very good copy and i shall be getting a better one but i am totally convinced that the lady standing at the no 8 bus stop is our mom with my brother tugging at the reins..

four corners of nursery road and villa st...the cafe..veg shop..post office and the crown inn..

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Thanks for these pics Astoness esp the close-ups around the backs of the houses which remain largely unchanged.

Harborne
 
its a pleasure harborne and maggs...ive spent many an hour playing and messing around the old factories at the back of copes...all gone now though...harborne was it you who mentioned about 4 years back that you had rellies who ran the paper shop in nursery road...if so its still there...

lyn
 
just bringing this thread to the top as i think between myself and stars most of the pics have been reposted..

lyn
 
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found a few more..

the vine inn..villa st during the 50s...demolished 1978...it took me nearly 4 years to find a pic of this pub which was almost opposite my house..

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the villa tavern which was just up from the vine and next to southall and smiths..demolished early 60s

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