SteveBhx
master brummie
I can do the side wall of the Gaumont that's about it
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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Tates
master brummie
La Dolce Vita......one of my OLD haunts back in the70's
Williamstreeter
master brummie
Four of us seen Marmalade at the La Dolce Vita in about 71/72
devonjim
master brummie
I was remembering driving past a Wing Yip in Pershore Street. On the left on the way out of town.
Tates
master brummie
Remember seeing Labi Siffre & had a chat with him in his dressing room.........Lovely guy.
Also met Anita Harris in her dressing room & when I was about to leave she said...."Don't I get a Kiss"
So I PUCKERED up.......like ya do......lol
Remember going home that night with her signed photograph & guarded it like no tomorrow......but before we went home had a curry in the Taj Mahal & left at 4am........Fed & WELL watered I can tell ya....hic hic.....
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
With reference to post #631 et seq, the full story of the Wing Yip organisation is told in detail in More Birmingham Memories published by True North Books Limited. Woon Wing Yip first came to the UK from his native Hong Kong in 1959 with £10 in his pocket. After a few failed job offers, he eventually opened his first Chinese restaurant with two partners in a former Clacton-on-Sea teashop in 1962. He had a captive customer base from the nearby Butlins holiday camp. Then followed a second restaurant in Ipswich near a large American airbase & the Americans were well accustomed to Chinese food.
By the late 1960s he had decided he no longer wanted to be a restauranteur. In 1970 his brother Sammy, who worked at the Hong Kong Hilton, joined him and they opened the first Chinese grocers at 135 Digbeth, supplying initially Chinese families for home use, and Chinese restaurants and takeaways that had started to spring up in Birmingham. In 1975 the store moved to larger premises in Coventry Street. In 1977, the two brothers were joined by a third brother, Lee Sing Yap, who had previously owned a store in Jamaica. In 1992 the Wing Yip Centre in Nechells was opened incorporating a Chinese restaurant, a Chinese dentist, a Chinese doctor, a travel agent, accountant, solicitor, bank, and printer. The business also operates in Manchester, Cricklewood and Croydon and employs over 300 staff.
The article stretches to six A4 pages and goes on to discuss the second generation, all well qualified as are its British employees, and its large overseas property portfolio. They also sponsor Chinese students coming to study in the UK. However, there is no mention of mikejee's warehouse! Sorry Mike.
Maurice
By the late 1960s he had decided he no longer wanted to be a restauranteur. In 1970 his brother Sammy, who worked at the Hong Kong Hilton, joined him and they opened the first Chinese grocers at 135 Digbeth, supplying initially Chinese families for home use, and Chinese restaurants and takeaways that had started to spring up in Birmingham. In 1975 the store moved to larger premises in Coventry Street. In 1977, the two brothers were joined by a third brother, Lee Sing Yap, who had previously owned a store in Jamaica. In 1992 the Wing Yip Centre in Nechells was opened incorporating a Chinese restaurant, a Chinese dentist, a Chinese doctor, a travel agent, accountant, solicitor, bank, and printer. The business also operates in Manchester, Cricklewood and Croydon and employs over 300 staff.
The article stretches to six A4 pages and goes on to discuss the second generation, all well qualified as are its British employees, and its large overseas property portfolio. They also sponsor Chinese students coming to study in the UK. However, there is no mention of mikejee's warehouse! Sorry Mike.
Maurice
SteveBhx
master brummie
130 Wattville Road 1974, not sure of the sign for this property I cannot see much evidence of torches batteries ior toys and there are a set of scales inside. The blind looks a little worse for wear also. Looking next door we have the butchers no doubt with sawdust on the floor was never sure why as a child, still not sure now. A quick mention also for the Hillman Hunter.
RobT
Acemeccanoman
This brings back some memories for me, from 1968-1972 I lived at no. 100 Clarence Road a few doors further to the right of the photo. In those years this shop was a beer retailer, Outdoor as we know it. The road to the left of the photo was George Street.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
pjmburns
master brummie
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RobT
Acemeccanoman
Window also has a sign 'Flowers for all occasions'
pjmburns
master brummie
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pjmburns
master brummie
I always thought the sawdust was to mop up any spilt blood from the sides of meat.
No shops and just a row of new build houses
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pjmburns
master brummie
Not the most recent Streetview but I need there to be no leaves on the tree. Shop is same today but tree is much larger.
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pjmburns
master brummie
Still a hairdressers.
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SteveBhx
master brummie
I thought that but its years since meat was butchered like that suppose its as you said but kept as a throwback.
izzy eckerslike
master brummie
A most enjoyable thread, so many memories of this era with Cafe's & little corner shops thriving everywhere. Travelling around Brum for 18 yrs working for a shopfitting company I would have been in many of those shops & Cafe's
Now all gone forever, perhaps this thread should be retitled 'The lost world'
Now all gone forever, perhaps this thread should be retitled 'The lost world'
pjmburns
master brummie
I suppose it might also have been that anything dropped on the floor would have to be binned if it was covered in sawdust.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Hear, hear.A most enjoyable thread, so many memories of this era with Cafe's & little corner shops thriving everywhere. Travelling around Brum for 18 yrs working for a shopfitting company I would have been in many of those shops & Cafe's
Now all gone forever, perhaps this thread should be retitled 'The lost world'
Bob
SteveBhx
master brummie
Thanks for all the comments - I have only scanned a small portion of the pictures to gauge reaction - thanks for that reaction. I have many others sorted into themes, shops, factories hotels etc, and it is only when you review them that you see how much is lost considering the majority were taken in the 1970's which I don't consider that long ago.
I will yet again add thanks to Janice for adding an extra dimension to the pictures - a hard task as I have tried on occasion to find a property and had to travel up and down a road and change years on the street view.
I will yet again add thanks to Janice for adding an extra dimension to the pictures - a hard task as I have tried on occasion to find a property and had to travel up and down a road and change years on the street view.
pjmburns
master brummie
It is a challenge sometimes and I have resorted to Kelly's Directories, Old Maps and old Phone books sometimes to pinpoint missing buildings. I am learning a lot by visiting some parts of Birmingham I don't know very well.
Thanks, Steve, for all the time scanning and posting.
Thanks, Steve, for all the time scanning and posting.
Wonderful - great job done by our two time travellers, Steve and Janice ! The then and now images are giving us so much interesting (and new) material. The thread is a joy to browse. Thank you both. Viv.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
I'll say it again hear, hear or is it here, here and thanks for a fascinating thread, particularly because of the now and then comparisons that are available.
Bob