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Old street pics..

Astoness said:
entry leading to granville st...ladywood..

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This is such an emotive picture and to me it speaks volumes.
 
patsi i have always thought that this is one of the images that says everything but tells us nothing...

glad you like it

lyn
 
These old photos set off all my old thoughts and memmories of the old as we called it on moving up to Kingstanding in 1957. It don't seem that long ago !!!! Still they say time and tide stand still for no one ????

Keep these great photos comming please

Regards Pete
 
Right I'll try again, reposting from the other thread this image of Moseley Rd Balsall Heath. It shows that section of the road from Moores book shop to the Moseley Cinema. The dirty book shop to the flea pit.

Phil
 

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These two photos would have been either side of my previous post. Oliver U Tallett's garage / car sales that ran from Sherbourne Rd to Moore's book shop. The other being an image of the road from the Moseley Cinema to Belgrave Rd.
 

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re the pic on post 430...i posted this one about 4 years ago and stated then that the date caption was wrong...late 50s early 60s...they must have been well in front to have cars like that in 1919 lol..
lyn
 
Phil said:
Right I'll try again, reposting from the other thread this image of Moseley Rd Balsall Heath. It shows that section of the road from Moores book shop to the Moseley Cinema. The dirty book shop to the flea pit.

Phil
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Now you tell me 54 years too late.
 
bernie thats very interesting to find out the old company is still going...i remember walking past the old place in villa st many times on my to and from farm st school...

lyn
 
Another photo taken on Moseley rd, this one further up toward town. In fact it is just short of Leoplold St and was taken outside Upper Highgate Girls School. Opposite Athelstan House Junior Remand Home.
 

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Phil said:
Right I'll try again, reposting from the other thread this image of Moseley Rd Balsall Heath. It shows that section of the road from Moores book shop to the Moseley Cinema. The dirty book shop to the flea pit.

Phil
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Would that be the top of Balsall Heath Rd on the right hand edge of the picture ? Just beyond that building (which I think was a bank), would be B'ham Co-op's No 6 Grocery/Butchery branch, where I worked in the 50s.
God, it all looks so SHABBY !
 
Astoness said:
re the pic on post 430...i posted this one about 4 years ago and stated then that the date caption was wrong...late 50s early 60s...they must have been well in front to have cars like that in 1919 lol..
lyn
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They must have indeed! :encouragement:
 
maypolebaz said:
Would that be the top of Balsall Heath Rd on the right hand edge of the picture ? Just beyond that building (which I think was a bank), would be B'ham Co-op's No 6 Grocery/Butchery branch, where I worked in the 50s.
God, it all looks so SHABBY !
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No the next road along would be Belgrave Rd, Balsall Heath rd was back the other way toward Moseley.

Phil
 
maypolebaz

This was the junction of Moseley Rd and Balsall Heath Rd, on the corner you can see was the Wagon & Horses public house on the other corner that you cant see was Morris Goldstein's tailors shop where I used to get my suits made when I was able to afford them.

Phil
 

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Re. post 430, unfotunately I am rather busy and because I am sorting the spare room out I do not have time to double check what I am posting before I get rid of it. The text with the photo gave the date I used and of course after a closer look it is obvious the date is wrong.
 
Stitcher said:
Re. post 430, unfotunately I am rather busy and because I am sorting the spare room out I do not have time to double check what I am posting before I get rid of it. The text with the photo gave the date I used and of course after a closer look it is obvious the date is wrong.
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No worries stitcher.

My comment was tonque-in-cheek and no way was it meant as a criticism.
 
Phil said:
maypolebaz

This was the junction of Moseley Rd and Balsall Heath Rd, on the corner you can see was the Wagon & Horses public house on the other corner that you cant see was Morris Goldstein's tailors shop where I used to get my suits made when I was able to afford them.

Phil
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Thanks for the interest Phil but I'm completely lost now !
 
maypolebaz


I've been thinking about it and you may have been partly right in the first place, it was probably Belgrave Rd that you meant and not Balsall Heath Rd. There was a Midland Bank on the corner of Belgrave Rd and between there and Highgate Square where the fire station was there was also a Co op butchers & grocers.

This is a photo of the Midland Bank on the corner of Belgrave Rd, it was pretty unmistakable.
 

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