Hello Jeanette,
My 'paper-round' covered both halves of Perrywood Road. I worked at what was Roden's Newsagents, next door to Moyle & Adams grocers. This was in the mid 1950s! I always considered the Calshot junction with Perrywood, as the 'bottom of that long road, as it was downhill! I lived in Heston Avenue, which adjoined Booths Farm Road, between Foden and Cramlington. I used to get to Perry Beeches, via Fowlmere and Thetford.
I was in the Mediterranean in 1960 and when I returned home in 1961, I found my parents had moved to Castle Bromwich. It's okay, they did tell me! I just didn't know how to get there from New Street!
I could have simply asked a 'Bus Inspector, but fortunately I met a chap who took pity on a 'lost sailor' and gave me a lift to Berrandale Road!
I still live in Great Barr, but over the border into Walsall, not far from the Old Horns of Queslett.
Regards John