Photos !

[jativey]

Hi  8)

Lokking for photo's absolutely anytime of Lister St, Dollman St, Inkerman St, and Gosta Green - i have a couple of Gosta Green in abt 1910  - if you can help pls contact me,

Cheers
Jan :

 

[postie]

gosta green 1950, I do have others.*‚** *‚** *‚** *‚** *‚** *‚** *‚** *‚** (c) Maria Twist

 

[Alf]

Was the TV Studios at Gosta Green?

 

[dennis]

Jim is that "The Delicia " in your picture?
used to watch the wrestling there O0

 

[postie]

Yes, Dennis that is indeed the Delicia. O0

 

[postie]

Specially for Dennis (c) Maria Twist

 

[postie]

and another (c) Maria Twist

 

[angie]

Postie ,is that the Sack of Potatoes pub to the right of the Delicia? i also remember a fountain,also when i was 4 yrs old we lived a the bottom of that road,which i think was Holt St.
Hope i am right :-\

 

[postie]

Yup, It certainly is the sack of spuds and is this the fountain.

 

[angie]

Postie, this brings back memories,gosh the old fountain which i spent hours looking down,strange child :crazy2: thank you :smitten:

 

[angie]

Its me again,do you have piccies of the row of houses running down that street,i used to run up to the pub where my dad worked,then run back down.
We lived in the very end house.
Fingers crossed :angel:

 

[jativey]

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your posts! I have some photos myself - and i wondered if anyone could draw me a map that relates to the other photos shown - this message come in two parts so please bear with me!

This first photo shows outside GG Grandad's Tobacconist's shop at No 1 Lister Street (1901) or No2 Gosta Green (1908 Trade directory) It is taken circa 1910. Can anyone explain to me whereabouts this is in relation to the other photos posted - also see part 2

Cheers
Jan


unable to replace personal photo

 

[jativey]

Hi there

This is part two - this is a photo taken from the upstairs room of the building in part 1 circa 1925

Cheers
Jan


unable to replace personal photo

 

[Alf]

Did it become a TV Studio

 

[Pomgolian]

:angel: What a great photo, I never lived there until 1957 but not much had changed.

I was always fascinated by 'Horse Troughs'  when I was a child. I remember that one being there, also the one that was in Park Lane Aston.

Hope this helps

Chris :angel:

 

[Pomgolian]

:angel: Well spotted Dave... I hadn't even noticed that it was the same area as the 'Banner' map at the top.

Chris :angel:

 

[Peter Walker]

While I was messing about setting up a lttle map of Gosta Green, Chris has done you a plan already. Never mind, this shows you a bit more of how things were in about 1913
Peter

 

[jativey]

Hi Y'all :crazy2:

This is just what I wanted - I now know where abouts GG Grandad Lived - Fab

Does anyone else have photo of this area - or memories?

Cheers
Jan

 

[postie]

reply No 11 Angie, Is this any good. :-\

 

[sylviasayers]

Most interested in the photos and maps of the Gosta Greem area, my grandad was born at 13 Lister Street, and his grandad kept at pub called the Dog & Duck in Sheep Street, it would be lovely to see a photo of that. My g.g. grandad also kept the Holt Arms in 1871.

 

[angie]

Cheers Postie,thats brill O0 :smitten:

 

[jativey]

Hi Sylvia

What were your grandad and g grandad's name's?

Cheers
Jan

 

[Peter Walker]

A point of info on Postie's last picture. Gosta Green itself is in the haze on the right of the picture, a few hundred yards up Aston Street on the right. The junction in the foreground is what was later named Central Place after the Central Fire Station was opened in the easrly 1930s. It was renamed Lancaster Place just after the war I think. The trams crossing the picture are running from Lancaster Street into Stafford Street, en route for Dale End and the Martineau St terminus. The road going off to the top left is the exytension of Corporation Street
From the motor vehicles, it's obvious the picture was taken after 1922, when trolleybuses first ran on the Nechells route, but I cannot distinguish the wires, although they must be there. I would guess the pic was taken shoertly before the old buildings were demolished for the new fire station.
I walked round there two weeks ago - you wouldn't recognise it now.
Peter

 

[postie]

Hello Peter
You certainly know your stuff, mate. the picture dates to 1933 and of course the Central Fire Station opened in 1935.
So top marks for observation. O0

 

[Pomgolian]

:angel: My Godmother's husband was 'The Fire Chief' at The Central Fire Station in the 1950's. Until he got a brain tumor and committed suicide around the early 60's. A nice man and it was very sad for all concerned.

Chris :angel:

 

[sylviasayers]

For David & Paul was the Chinese Restaurant Kam Lings. I recall going there in the early 60s and the lunches were about 5/6d. I think KL's was one of the first Chinese restaurants in Birmingham, certainly the first I went to.

For Jan, my grandad was Albert Edward Horton, born at 13 Lister Street in 1876. His mother was Mary Ann Raybould before her marriage and her father was John Raybould.

 

[dennis]

Isn't it great,
from one enquiry from JTV,about
Gosta Green,we had wonderful replies
with maps,photograph's & a lot of info
Well done to all concerned,that's what makes
"Our" forum the best O0 O0 O0

 

[GER22VAN]

That lamp post in the center of gosta green was the bus stop on the nechells route and there was a mini rag market there on some day of the week. This would be about the late 1940's.

 

[jativey]

Hi Y'all

Thank you so much for your replies - they have truly lightened my day! I work with a very miserbale brummie (egbaston) who reckons that the Aston area was a dump and always has been - obviously he doesnt remember the spirit of the area and its people, but then he always was a miserable sod!

Cheers and thanks for all your posts - we plan to visit soon - where are the nearest burial placces to Gosta Green and Lister street?

Ta very much
Jan :smitten:

 

[GER22VAN]

l believe that most burials would have been at Witton Cemetery which is quite some distance from Gosta Green and Lister Street, local churchyards no longer in use would be one's such as Saint Matthews on Nechells Parkway ( part of old Lister Street ) and maybe Saint James that used to be in Barrack Street.
Birmingham Central Library, Local History, 6 th Floor will hold all burial records.
Hope this is what you mean and is of some help to you.