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Pattisons New , treet Restaurant

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SBSFamilyhistory

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Does anyone remember Pattisons, excuse the spelling, restaurant in New Street.

My father Joe Burrows or as the Head Chef, Frank Dan, an Austrailian, called him Maggot as a chef there until about 1954.:)
 
Wasn't it just around the corner, in Corporation Street? Or is my memory playing tricks?

Chris
 
ChrisM

sorry but I never knew it, Dad went to work for Henry Wiggins and co in 1954 and I was born in Hereford in 1961 I was told that it was opposite the odeon. But you may be right.
 
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Hi Postied: I didn't know Pattisons had so many shops. What year would that clipping be from please.
I remember the one in Corporation Street and vaguely the one in Erdington High Street. My brother worked at Pattisons in Bordesley Green on their vehicle fleet in the mid 1960s.

ps Having a punctuation problem with strange signs appearing instead of question marks and apostrophes.
 
I wonder when your father went there, SBSFamilyhistory. If we are talking about the New Street branch and the latter was opposite the Odeon it would have been an open air job for several years after 1940/41...... or in a large circus tent! When did permanent buildings reappear there, I wonder? It sounds as though Pattisons were one of the first occupants after reconstruction.

Am relieved that my memories of the Corporation Street cafe from around 1942/43 don't need correcting.

Chris
 
A little piccy of the shop in Corporation St on the corner of Fore St. Taken in 1960. I remember eating upstairs many times in the 60's

Phil
Lost photo replaced by what I believe is same as original
CityForeSt-CorporationSt1960.jpg

City Fore St- Corporation St 1960.jpg
 
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Thanks, pmc1947, a great picture which brings back memories. I used to be taken there occasionally as a child for a cuppa and bun during the war years and immediately after. (I have a few lines I wrote about it in the archive, if anyone's interested).

Sorry, SBSFamilyhistory, it's your thread and it's about NEW STREET! When was your dad there? And does anyone know when the branch opened - in other words when did the postwar building appear? Is it the same one which is there now?

Chris
 
The place in New Street was a full resturant including family room and ladies room (where women could go and eat out on their own).

Dad would have worked there from about 1949 to 1954.

Dad even remembered making curry once a year for the Indian community when they reserved the whole resturant. 8)

One odd thing about Pattison's was as the family who owned it were Jews they didn't open on Saturdays and nobody opened on Sunday's so Dad worked Monday to Friday. :)

Does anyone now when it closed?
 
Thanks for posting the photo of Pattison`s at Fore and Corporation Streets.
My school was across the road and so was always passing by. Great to see it again:):)
 
SBSFamilyhistory.....

Was "Pattison" the family name of the owners or was it something else?

Chris
 
To be honest I don't know but I would have assumed so. Unfortunately my Dad died in 2001 so I cannot find out.

I also heard recently that the chef who my Dad worked for died in 2006.. he went back to Melbourne birth place to live. He had been back in Australia about two hours and was run over and died. I expect he went back to die but didn't expect it to happen like that.
 
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I used to go downstairs in Pattisons in Corporation Street to have a quick drink and a cake ......it had tables and chairs..but it wasn't a restaurant downstairs... It would be about 1964...
Georgie
 
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