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Old street pics..

That slide was still there in the late 50s although Lawford St had gone. The park was on the corner of St James Place and Vauxhall Rd there was a set of 4 swings and a roundabout and the parky Lanky Jack
 
COv and Brum and I suspect other large Cities have street with the same name. So what who or where was/is Chandos? Nico
 
Nico said:
COv and Brum and I suspect other large Cities have street with the same name. So what who or where was/is Chandos? Nico
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Sir John Chandos was one of England's greatest soldiers of the Hundred Years' War and a founder member of the Order of the Garter.

No idea if it has anything to do with him though.
 
I went to chandos school for a few years and it was next to highgate park and led to shawbury grove to the flats where i lived in 1961 to 1966,i can remember a few names and still have a few memories of living there.
 
Thanks everyone. Chandos must be a person then. Any ideas on how Long Mynd Road got named, in Northfield. I could takea guess as it is personal to me. My BF lived there when they were new and am told he built the houses, and he came from the Long Mynd but would he have been allowed to name the road. I wonder how they decide.Nico
 
The Lyttelton family of Hagley Hall (Viscount Cobham) are related to the Chandos family but reading Wikipedia it looks too complicated to work out how the titles are related.
 
Roads are named by the local authority but usually property developers are allowed to make recommendations. The Long Mynd is in south Shropshire quite a long way from Birmingham.
 
wigandem said:
I went to chandos school for a few years and it was next to highgate park and led to shawbury grove to the flats where i lived in 1961 to 1966,i can remember a few names and still have a few memories of living there.
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Thanks wiganden working from a dodgy memory
 
DavidGrain said:
Roads are named by the local authority but usually property developers are allowed to make recommendations. The Long Mynd is in south Shropshire quite a long way from Birmingham.
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So he could have named it then as a Master Builder. The Long Mynd is not that far really. Google says 1hr and 11 minutes from Brum Centre. It didn't curtail my BF anyway who drove around with a caravan in tow from job to job. He built houses factories and schools as was the building boom then, in Droitwich, Birmingham, (hence me) Shropshire, Stourbridge, Coventry, Worcester etc etc even Derbyshire and Stoke. Thanks for that information. Nico
 
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Smiled at the Park Bench in Picture #2366 - The Cast Iron legs for the bench were made to look like tree branch limbs.
 
Carolina & berniew, thanks again for the fabulous pictures you are posting. I could look at these for ages. Lovely.
 
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