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Pawnshops

jennyann

jennyann

Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Does anyone remember the pawnshop in the Six Ways Aston area? I
remember one along from the Orient Cinema on the High Street.
It actually had the classic three brass globes hung outside of the shop
which always fascinated me.
There may have been another one along Alma Street also.
 
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Jennyann........ my husbands mother, Margaret Bonner (ne Yardley), who was living on Newtown Row at the time, remembers Powson's, the pawn shop on the corner of Alma Street and High Street. She recalls it being there as a child and also remembers it being there in her early married life, living in Potters Hill. They also sold new jewellry.
She can also recall, as an adult, one on Newtown Row, round the corner from Philips Street, beside a chemist shop. She has a childhood memory of another one on Aston Road, owned by Mrs Ball, it was next door to a shoe repairers.
 
Does anybody remember the pawn shop that was next to Woolworths on Aston Cross? They had unredeemed articles for sale. My father bought a necklace from there for my mom, and the story goes that she went ballastic; :evil: as it cost £5 - and they didn't even have 5 old pence to waste. This was in the 1920s, anyway i still have that necklace, it's red glass beads on a strand of what i can only imagine is gold links, as for a long time it used to be in my youngsters toy box, and it would finish up in the back garden, and stay there until i had a tidy-up. It never rusted so i wonder !!?? My mother never thought much of jewellery, only ever wore her wedding ring. i suppose she was a simple soul, who had no time for worldly possessions. She always said, she was happy with peace and quiet, and health and happiness meant more to her than all the money in the world. Just as well really, because we never did have much !! :roll:
 
:idea: The light's just come on :!: I remember the name of the pawnshop next to Woolworths on Aston Cross - It was Biddles - wonder if this was the Eden of Biddle and Webb the Birmingham Auctioneers. If so wonder if they sold my dad rubbish or rubies? :madeyes:
 
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Biddle had a shop on Newtown Row just round the corner from Phillips Street, along from Tomothy Whites Chemist.
 
:idea: Yesss! i can remember that one Rod, but did they also have the one next to Woolies :?:

I can also recall - although this isn't really related (or is it :?: ) that my husband (then my boyfriend :wink: ) bought me an eternity ring from the pawn shop next to Woolies. It was a band of small marcasite hearts, and i was really chuffed with it, however, he then said that it cost him 6d from Woolies, i was mortified, and it took him at least 6 months to convince me that it was the genuine article, but i never had the respect for that ring that it deserved - god knows where it is now, think i lost it. :madeyes: I'm a bit like my mom in that respect -no worries about material things! :roll:
 
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I was sent to a place called Hunts near Aston Cross to collect things back for my Mom; the shop was behind a jewellers shop, down an entry.

I think she called it a pledge office?

Once it was her wedding ring, the other time it was the canteen of cutlery. I remember the guy in front of me buying paying for a pair of shoes back.
 
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I was sent to a place called Hunts near Aston Cross to collect things back for my Mom; the shop was behind a jewellers shop, down an entry.

I think she called it a pledge office?

Once it was her wedding ring, the other time it was the canteen of cutlery. I remember the guy in front of me buying paying for a pair of shoes back.
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My parents used that pawnshop often,amongst other's.I was often sent to redeem stuff for them,once the people in the shop got used to me after seeing me with my mom so many time's,happy day's hehe.
 
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A Lot of folk used the pawnshop to help them get through the week. At least they were only borrowing money on their own belongings. Woe betide the wives who didn,t get their husbands suit back out for the week end or the alarm clock to get them up for work.
 
my mum used to pawn dads suit on monday get it back by friday, so he could wear on sunday,
very sad for mum and i hated going down that entry to the pawn shop but it was to feed the family
they were good old days and i used to think that we were the poorest family, we were all in the same boat, its good to have the memories

to look back on hey bless all the brummies xxx
 
This was our Pawn Shop which was still there to the death(3 balls and all)in the early 60s almost opposite the Adelaide.Dek
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you know i dont think i ever saw my dad in a suit,i bet my mom never got it back.lol there was one on green lane just up from ebh hospital.you could get some good tat off them,that folk did not collect.
 
HI MIKE;
Yes ndeed i remember it as being hunts and you had to go to the hatch in the entry
i only ever went once for my old lady to take our old manns suit ;
but my nan is mother lived in white house street she was a regular with lots of things
when our mom was in hospital hveing a kid we used to have to stay at our nans for about a fortnight
whilst the old man was working on lodge rd on the flat for charles harris bakelight moulders
 
Hi ya Jean You are right about SWinglers I thought it was the name of the Pawn shop
On the branch of Church lane and Church Road,can't remember where Swinglers was
or what they sold,so long ago Jean
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I will ask our Albert when he gets back off his holidays Rob. Maybe I remember the name because mom and my aunts were forced to use it?.
 
I remember Mr Swingler quite vividly, he was a rotund Jewish gentleman who wore gold-rimmed spectacles, in the late 40s and early fifties, my mom frequented his establishment every Monday, either for herself, or for others who were to ashamed to stand in the queue. In those days you could pawn almost anything from clothing to items of jewelry, you had six months to redeem your pledge, if you didn't it was sold to offset his outlay.
 
Jean, if my memory serves me well, there was another thread about pawn shops,or Church lane, and I am sure someone put a picture of Swinglers on there, I've searched my photos but there are over 8000 and they are not organised, (JUST LIKE ME)
 
Thanks Astonite sounds a bit like myself at the moment. Can't wait for my brother to come home to ask him. He is quite a few years my senior and will remember more.
 
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