sylviasayers
master brummie
Oh Phil I have really enjoyed this "walk back in time" seeing so many familiar sights from my early years. Thank you so much.
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Pete Ex Pat
master brummie
Hi Phil, You can see in photos #900 photo no 2 the old school that aston university now sit's. and photo no 4 is the other Crown & Cushion !!!!
We all got there in the end.
Many thanks Phil for the great photo's brings back so many memeories like photo no 2 that Bl--dy underpas caused so many snarl ups with th traffic going into the city from Walsall & Kingstanding & Great Barr morning & evening was a nightmare I worked for a company in Heathfield Road and it used to take me three quarters of an our from the circle Kinkstanding.. Regards Pete
We all got there in the end.
Many thanks Phil for the great photo's brings back so many memeories like photo no 2 that Bl--dy underpas caused so many snarl ups with th traffic going into the city from Walsall & Kingstanding & Great Barr morning & evening was a nightmare I worked for a company in Heathfield Road and it used to take me three quarters of an our from the circle Kinkstanding.. Regards Pete
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Wow, some memories there for me! The 'Perry Barr Restaurant' was a British Restaurant, as they were called during the war and for a few years afterwards. It was next door to Birchfield library, and I can - just - remember going in with my mother. I couldn't have been much older than about 3.
I love the photo of the block of shops at the junction of Birchfield Road with The Broadway. My parents lived on The Broadway, down near Witton Road, from 1939 to 1995. The low building on the right of the photo became the Gas Office. Maison Celeste was a ladies outfitter where mom shopped from time to time. The shop G S Clee was once owned by ex-Villa player Stan Lynn.
Lovely stuff, Phil!
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I love the photo of the block of shops at the junction of Birchfield Road with The Broadway. My parents lived on The Broadway, down near Witton Road, from 1939 to 1995. The low building on the right of the photo became the Gas Office. Maison Celeste was a ladies outfitter where mom shopped from time to time. The shop G S Clee was once owned by ex-Villa player Stan Lynn.
Lovely stuff, Phil!
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Photo #3 of post 899 must be the tram terminus. To the left is the Old Crown & Cushion, behind which the larger Crown & Cushion (as in post 900 4th phito) was built. Not seen this one before. I think this would also have been roughly where the Toll Gate was too. Viv.
Charlie
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Maison Celeste was a hairdressers G., my friends sister worked there in the fifties.
I think all the rain's soaked my brain, Charlie. Of course it was a hairdressers. The shop I was thinking of was called Margot Sweeney, which on reflection may have been in the block of shops between Bragg Road and The Broadway. Sorry about the confusion - par for the course with me at the moment!
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Gone, but not forgotten.
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Gone, but not forgotten.
The final set of photos for the journey, next will be Coventry Road from Bordesley to the old Elmdon Airport.
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A Sparks
master brummie
Yes, I'd be interested to know where the Bell and Lion was, I imagine it must have gone years ago.
Thanks again for the photos Phil. I was born in a house on the Walsall Road between Perry Avenue and Rocky Lane. My parents had their wedding reception at the Tennis Courts.
Thanks again for the photos Phil. I was born in a house on the Walsall Road between Perry Avenue and Rocky Lane. My parents had their wedding reception at the Tennis Courts.
davidfowler
Exiled Brummie
Phil, I'm already looking forward to your journey up the Coventry Rd!
Pete Ex Pat
master brummie
Hi Phil & Big Gee, The only Pub i know on the Walsall road past the Scott Arms is the Bell on the left by road that leads to the Yew Tree Estate ..
Regards Pete
Regards Pete
Apologies, I was replying to the image on posting #870 now I can see that the image was out of context to the thread..........
lindyloo
master brummie
I'm looking forward to the journey too :encouragement:
Re: The Bell & Lion. It could certainly have been where the Bell at Walstead Road is now, impossible to say. The caption of the photo says 'Perry Barr', though, and I wonder, a pure guess, if it might have been where the Tucker Eyelet factory is now? Strange I never heard the name mentioned before.
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Hi big gee
do you not think it was by the tennis courts pub that lay back or closer to the island of the perry barr
i seem to recall a pub just down from the tennis courts pub on the opersite side there used to be a pub
it got demolished and was a big car and van hire company then years later they moved across the island to the other side
of the island as you swing around fromthe walsall rd when i ran a certain pub in the city of brum
there was a customer of mine used to come in every day from king standingwith a holdal full ofbaccki
and i went down to a pub around there to meet him on a sunday ; thats what i am thinking i klnow the tennis courts pub was up the rd that was a large pub but terible inside so it may or not have been in perry barr it all depends how much you call perry barr ;
best wishes astonian;;
do you not think it was by the tennis courts pub that lay back or closer to the island of the perry barr
i seem to recall a pub just down from the tennis courts pub on the opersite side there used to be a pub
it got demolished and was a big car and van hire company then years later they moved across the island to the other side
of the island as you swing around fromthe walsall rd when i ran a certain pub in the city of brum
there was a customer of mine used to come in every day from king standingwith a holdal full ofbaccki
and i went down to a pub around there to meet him on a sunday ; thats what i am thinking i klnow the tennis courts pub was up the rd that was a large pub but terible inside so it may or not have been in perry barr it all depends how much you call perry barr ;
best wishes astonian;;
Wotcher Alan,
I was only guessing about the Bell & Lion being where Tucker Eyelet is now (should say where Tucker Eyelet was, because it closed down earlier this year, absolutely disgraceful). I know the Tennis Courts, but if there was a pub on the other side of the road it was before my time. Again only guessing, the photo that Phil posted looks like it might be late 19th or early 20th century, a long time ago. It looked like a nice pub, too. As my dad used to say, There's no such thing as a bad pub - some are better than others.
Maybe someone will come up with the answer - I'd love to know.
Take care,
G
I was only guessing about the Bell & Lion being where Tucker Eyelet is now (should say where Tucker Eyelet was, because it closed down earlier this year, absolutely disgraceful). I know the Tennis Courts, but if there was a pub on the other side of the road it was before my time. Again only guessing, the photo that Phil posted looks like it might be late 19th or early 20th century, a long time ago. It looked like a nice pub, too. As my dad used to say, There's no such thing as a bad pub - some are better than others.
Maybe someone will come up with the answer - I'd love to know.
Take care,
G
HI GRAH ;
Yes i would like to think i am correct its closely around where i was thinking when our dear friend mossy is almost as close as i am and going
on the refence of mossy i am sure he will be correct ad closreely matches around the rd where i thought it was
there again we both could be wrong ; but if i know mossy as a youngester in his hey day whom was a very close friend to my friend whom ilived with whn i and him was young they or should i say mo with our friend micky ;
by the way you said tuckers as been demo; when i came out of the army that was first job there i was on a row of machine minding thirty machine in a row pumping in brass bars and it was not allowed to stop i walked and ran up and down behind those machines all through the shift my oldest brother
he was the inspector for th works ; i was behind the last three bay windows on the street level at the front of tjhe building ;
best wishes astonian ;; alan
Yes i would like to think i am correct its closely around where i was thinking when our dear friend mossy is almost as close as i am and going
on the refence of mossy i am sure he will be correct ad closreely matches around the rd where i thought it was
there again we both could be wrong ; but if i know mossy as a youngester in his hey day whom was a very close friend to my friend whom ilived with whn i and him was young they or should i say mo with our friend micky ;
by the way you said tuckers as been demo; when i came out of the army that was first job there i was on a row of machine minding thirty machine in a row pumping in brass bars and it was not allowed to stop i walked and ran up and down behind those machines all through the shift my oldest brother
he was the inspector for th works ; i was behind the last three bay windows on the street level at the front of tjhe building ;
best wishes astonian ;; alan
Hi Alan,
I didn't say Tucker's has been demolished, but it's certainly closed. Maybe only a matter of time before it comes down, though. I used to sell them a hard polishing felt for cleaning strip metal prior to pressing, but sorry to say they weren't very good at paying their accounts on time....
Mike,
I wonder if the Bell & Lion was a beer-house, and that Phil's photo is a lot older than we think. There just isn't a memory of that name around Perry Barr, at least I never heard anyone refer to it, and my old man knew all the pubs round there.
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I didn't say Tucker's has been demolished, but it's certainly closed. Maybe only a matter of time before it comes down, though. I used to sell them a hard polishing felt for cleaning strip metal prior to pressing, but sorry to say they weren't very good at paying their accounts on time....
Mike,
I wonder if the Bell & Lion was a beer-house, and that Phil's photo is a lot older than we think. There just isn't a memory of that name around Perry Barr, at least I never heard anyone refer to it, and my old man knew all the pubs round there.
G
