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nursery rd/villa st

hi maggs...if you want the flag as your avitar you can download it from the smilies section we have on the forum....

lyn....
 
Thank you Lynn,

Do you think I am clever enough to do it? I'm not that good you know.

Maggs
 
maggs...i will let you into a secret...shh..i had to be told how to do it....lol....i will send you an instant message....

lyn
 
Not sure which newsagents my g-g-grandparents owned, but it was way back in the 1850s-60 approximately so there's probably no record of it anyway, but all the photos bring fond memories flooding back to me from when we lived around there (Hunters Road).

Harborne
 
Astoness said:
a better look at the post office. and a shot looking toward the 4 corners. the white van is outside the cafe. the shop a bit further up from the van is where we used to buy our jubblies. remember them?
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I remember the lawlers who lived next to the post office.
Bill
 
hi lyn just been looking at some of your pics
i was looking to see if there was one of my brothers old house
165 villa st or anymore pics of brougham st,i am still only trying
to find my way around the site never used a forum before its
really nice to see the old places again.
 
hi mary...go to the thread called pictures old brum..ray has just posted a couple of cracking pics of villa street. also type in brougham st in the search box at the top right hand of the page ray has also posted 2 more of brougham st......can you remind me what years your bro lived in villa street...

lyn

ps welcome to the forum.....
 
hi lyn spoke to my bro he said he lived there 1974 but his now wife
had been living there for quite some time, what number did you live at.
 
Hi I used to live next door to the Carters in Victoria Grove, they were older than me, the lads that is
 
Victoria Grove was off Nursery Rd, Just by a shop which was run by a guy called Laurence
 
Yes Lyn thats Victoria Grove, almost opposite the sally army, that phone box was a source of income to many kids! Tom
 
lol tom....theres still a phone box on that spot...not the same one though....if you type in....nursery road newagents in the search box at the top right i have posted a few more pics there that you may find of interest..dad used to be the window cleaner..he most likely did your windows.....

lyn
 
heres the sally army tom..taken last week..what a sorry state it is now....o course when i used to go there it was the original brickwork...they have been plastered over since but the bricks are now showing though...i had taken a couple more of the front but seem to have lost them

lyn
 
Hi Lyn Just looking at your photos of Nursery Rd, the one taken from what looks like the bottom of Church St, with the church hall on the other corner. We used to have school dinners there, marched in a crocodile from Wills St or Broughm St. The shop that i refered to which was run by a chap called Laurence, who was really bad on his legs was right next to the No 8 bus stop, It used to take him ages to come from the back of the shop when anyone went in, so you can guess what used to happen! Not that i was anyway involved myself, honest Tom
 
lol tom...you must be on about st silas mission rooms on the corner of well st and nursery road....well i think you are lol..is this where you mean...
 
Yes Lyn thats the place, I wonder what it had to do with St Francis school in Wills St, which was RC? Anyway it's jogging my memory now and do you remember the newsagents, which was called Robinsons, i think it was run by a woman with her aged mother who must have been 90, well it would seem that age to us anyway, I used to do a paper round for them and it was 7 days a week, all for ten bob, which was minimum wage for paperboys lol Well my round was ok because i had the block, out the shop left into Church St , or was it Angelsey St and left all the way round. Until the fateful day the old woman told me i had a new delivery, a "Racing Post" for somebody in Hunters Vale, all that way off my block for two bloody pages! And that is probably why i hate horses and anything to do with them till this day. Tom
 
hi tom...funny how a few pics can jog the memory...yes mrs robinson 66 nursery road ran the newagents...i remember it well...used to buy our fireworks from there..well our parents did...can you remember there was a little gap from the window to the woodwork...we used to look in it to see if anyone had dropped any money down....first left is anglesely st....dad used to live in hunters vale as a kid.then moved round the corner to villa st..the maisonettes are still there...was that where you delivered to...the paper shop is still there although all tarted up now..ive got a recent pic somewhere..will try and find it....

lyn
 
Astoness said:
a better look at the post office. and a shot looking toward the 4 corners. the white van is outside the cafe. the shop a bit further up from the van is where we used to buy our jubblies. remember them?
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The Lindleys lived next door,right where the post box is.
 
thats a great video topsy...the first pic is of the sally army i used to attend in nursery road...

thank you
 
Hi All.
Poor Nursery Rd is looking a bit glum without her photo's. So i am re-posting some.




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