peterbrook road, any photos or info

[mcfishy]

does anyone have any photos of peterbrook rd,i live in the terrace houses at the top of the road for about 40 years,the posts i seen on the site are old and photos wont open,i been told about the football pitch opposite before the mass development of the area.love to see some photos of the road......... great site

 

[mcfishy]

this is what i have so far,not peterbrook but bus crash 1981 mill lodge bridge part of the aquaduct,the drawbridge stores and the aquaduct from an angle i never seen before,there must be more finding any info or photos are a nightmare.

 

[maypolebaz]

It's great to see those old photos of the "Ackerdocks".
I remember how we kids used to swing on the chains of that lift bridge, trying to get it to rise.
I don't think the ford was as wide as that when we used to splash through it on our bikes though.

 

[Radiorails]

I recall countless children and teenagers trying to raise the deck of the bridge: I never saw a sucessful attempt, but that is not to say that it was never achieved. The width and depth of the ford, as with the others further downstream in Hall Green, was dependant on the time of year and recent rainfall. Post WW2, until the early 1950's, cars and other road vehicles were not very prolific so it was always an "excitement" when one drove through the water. Some folks came, parked their cars in the ford and promply cleaned them.

 

[ColinB]

Some of the cottages on Peterbrook Road, is yours one of these ?. Image taken from Keith Adams's Solihull Lodge, The Victorian Years, and dated 1995.
I brought a house just off Peterbrook Road in 1973 and although I no longer live there my daughter still does.
with another view of the Aquaduct

 

[BernardR]

The white one was where my Nan Rosina (Riches Nee Sperry) lived and where my Dad grew up. It was not white when I knew it though. There were 10 or 11 all boys the only daughter born did not survive. My Aunt Cissie lived at the right hand end near Solihull Lodge. Can't recall the name of the people next door to the right but remember he was a builder.

 

[mcfishy]

few doors down from that one,yes i read solihull lodge years,i got photos of houses at bottom of peterbrook road and peterbrook rise being built late 1960s,the sketch is one i found it was done early 1950s by who i dont know

 

[mcfishy]

few doors down from that one,yes i read solihull lodge years,i got photos of houses at bottom of peterbrook road and peterbrook rise being built late 1960s

 

[maypolebaz]

I remember, when very young, watching some big kids riding Track Bikes on a cinder tip up near the swing bridge.
A Track Bike was a normal push bike which had been fitted with cow horn type handlebars and had reinforcing bars on the front forks.
I allways wanted a Track Bike when I was older but the technology involved in converting my old Hercules was beyond me.

 

[mcfishy]

found this house next to the mill that was demolished in 1950s any info anyone

 

[Robert John]

In the 60's a group if friends played in the fields off Peterbrook. We also used to go to 'The Stables'. Anyone remember Chris Kenny, Rob Storer, Rob Simonds, Colin Butler, Graham ?, Basher Biggs, Phil ?.

 

[Pete W.W]

I remember, when very young, watching some big kids riding Track Bikes on a cinder tip up near the swing bridge.
A Track Bike was a normal push bike which had been fitted with cow horn type handlebars and had reinforcing bars on the front forks.
I allways wanted a Track Bike when I was older but the technology involved in converting my old Hercules was beyond me.

I was one of those kids with the cow horn handlebars, the big problem was there was a lot of glass in the cinders and you were forever getting punctures,

 

[Pete W.W]

Just found these.

 

[Radiorails]

My recollections of steep slopes, near the Drawbridge were in fact the embankments of the Stratford Canal which was either side if the aqueduct. (ackadoc). In the times after WW2 there was little vehicular traffic so cycling in the area and through the ford was simple with few hazards. It was a big event, at the time, to see the drawbridge opened; the Stratford was in an abandoned state then with very few passing boats.

 

[Robert John]

I remember the first time I rode down the big dip and up the other side on my track bike. A regular bike just stripped down with 'Cow horn' handlebars. It seemed scary but so long as you fully committed then it was pretty easy. I also remember trying to lift the drawbridge with mates. I don't think we ever managed it.

 

[Reet5]

found this house next to the mill that was demolished in 1950s any info anyone

I remember walking past this house as a child whilst going to my Nan's (she owned Spring Cottage - opposite the stables)