Country Road
master brummie
Thats funny, but so sweet, one of my offspring called grandad, dangwad. Bless
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Old street pics..
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izzy eckerslike
yow've med my day yaw av
Fantastic photo's, I've said it before but these photo's show a lost world where you could walk around and find local shops for everything you wanted, a cafe a short walk from anywhere. Lots of interesting family owned shops, antiques and junk shops everywhere and now gone for ever and sadly we will never see the like again.
This is the world I saw and still remember vividly when starting work for shopfitters in 1961 so travelled all over B,ham and the black country.
We refurbished every single Dewhurst's and other well known butchers shops, Withers and Finlay's Tobacconists and countless shops and offices right in the town centre such as Zissman's, George Hull, Lloyds bank and many more.
Happy days but to see the concrete mess that replaced it all is nothing short of criminal and the planners are still at it even now wanting to get rid of the market.
This is the world I saw and still remember vividly when starting work for shopfitters in 1961 so travelled all over B,ham and the black country.
We refurbished every single Dewhurst's and other well known butchers shops, Withers and Finlay's Tobacconists and countless shops and offices right in the town centre such as Zissman's, George Hull, Lloyds bank and many more.
Happy days but to see the concrete mess that replaced it all is nothing short of criminal and the planners are still at it even now wanting to get rid of the market.
could not agree with you more izzy...i cant remember the last time i went into the city centre...sadly it holds very little historical interest for me now..another reason why i have spent the last 15 years amassing thousands of old photos before demo..the written word is fine but to my mind its the photos that tell the real story
lyn
lyn
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master brummie
I saw Davy Crockett on here in the year dot.
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master brummie
Stitcher I've just noticed this pic I would have said it was clearing the ground to make way for the housing which would include Rickman Drive early to mid 60's
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master brummie
I reckon it's early to mid 60's making room for the housing that would include Rickman Drive , I moved away around 69. My mate moved into Rickman Drive around 66/67
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master brummie
Lyn it's great to see all the perimeter fencing securing everything >
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Lynn when this entry was still standing , the Evening Mail ran a story saying if there was a fire in the houses in the yard, the entry contravenes the fire regulations for escape .
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master brummie
Lyn that Granville Street pic has that eerie looking entry that took your attention behind the washing line. Believe it or not there was only four houses in that entry where some of thse people came from was just for the camera I think there were only about 10 lived up that entry
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master brummie
Best pint of Brew X1 in there , I could have drank that all afternoon without a tea break
Country Road
master brummie
Similar memories different cinema, ours was the Bristol cinema off Lee Bank Bristol rd Edgbaston, my brother and I every Saturday morning, we are the Oveltinies little girls and boys, Flash Gorden, a Cartoon good atmosphere, on the way back we bought a frozen jubbely and meandered back home. Found in Google a picture of the Bristol cinema, looking at now it was pretty impressive, at least buildings had character back then, instead of a square box, good memories the Saturday matinee.
paul stacey
master brummie
All kids in the 50's, had this magical experience, every Saturday Morning, for 6d, another world, mine was the "Royalty " Harborne!! later the "Oak Cinema," selly Oak!!
izzy eckerslike
yow've med my day yaw av
For me it was either walking to the WOB
in Weoley Castle where I lived in the 1950's or getting the 22 bus to Selly 'Oak' cinema and walking back afterwards, someone used to walk along the waiting line handing us a picture card
paul stacey
master brummie
Hi izzy, I remember the WOB, in Barns Hill, well mate, it had a faulty, rear door, where you could sneak in when you were under age for a film showing, saw Dracula, and Sat Night Sunday Morning, that way, but when about 6 or 7 lads, tried it once,got caught, they repaired it, about 1960/ 61 time!!
Richard Dye
master brummie
And those were the good old days (at least it seemed), sneaking in without paying regardless of the picture!
izzy eckerslike
yow've med my day yaw av
Yes, I did the same, aged just 11
we were told by older kids to say we were 16 and worked at the BSA and even with our squeeky voices they still let us in Us kids got up to all sorts of tricks back then, climbing over the gate at the Raven pub and getting an arm full of empty bottles and taking them back into the outdoor to get the money
nearly got caught as they had begun marking the bottles and we did a runner and never went near for months 
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master brummie
I wonder if those young men standing in the doorway were school leavers , I seem tp remember going there in August meny years ago to collect my cards so I could start work ?The 'Blitz' had not started when at least two of these photos were taken, so I've put them here.
Margaret St in the months before WW2 a fairly cheerful looking crowd filling sandbags and placing them untidily against the walls of the Education office.
Still Margaret St in the opposite direction. The trams had to squeeze past the busy scene. Would those sandbags protect the building?
Perhaps a little later the sandbags look more uniform in size and placement, but what about the upper windows? Note the 'Keep Left' bollards had light shields fitted.
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master brummie
The good old Duke of York When I was in the Winson Green & District Darts League we played there and won .
Cliff gebhard
proper brummie kid
Great photos
lmr3103
master brummie
I do remember that horse trough on the Cov Road very well, but what pub was it in front of?
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master brummie
Used to spend hell of a lot of time during the Summer holidays here as a kid , after drying either a cup of hot chocolate or hot oxo and a packet of cheese biscuits
Country Road
master brummie
Great pictures, walked down Christchurch Passage many times working close by.
Brilliant photos thank you, Westley Rd very recognisable today from the picture.
paul stacey
master brummie
Those horse troughs were everywhere as a kid, together with standing water drinking fountains with copper jugs, chained to the stand, as copper cannot hold germs, long lost common placed items, from a distant childhood !!!!!
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master brummie
Maggs when I look back nowadays I think yes they were wrong Circuses , then on the other hand I think thank you Chipperfields etc for bringing me elephants lions and tigers if it wasn't for you this kid from the backstreets would never have seen such wonders of the world
Lady Penelope
master brummie
We were in Lichfield on Wednesday and passed a bistro with a lovely large receptacle outside for dogs. Unfortunately the young man behind trod on the edge of the bowl and somehow flipped it all over the young lady he was walking with. Luckily it was a hot day!
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master brummie
I go to Norfolk regularly and the shops not oly the pubs have dishes outside for dogs
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The Bell was my local off and on for 21 years I could alternate between here and The Harvester needless to say which was my favourite , The Bell had a great atmosphere
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master brummie
Yes it was a journey I first set upon in 1966 as my apprenticeship took me to the new Castle Bromwich Rubbish Tip on the Chester Rd , this was of course going to be a big change from the last two years of my apprenticeship at the Birmingham Post & Mail.
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master brummie
I had to go to Digbeth Civic Hall as an apprentice to join the Electrical Trades Union