I worked with a mechanic in Kings Heath way back in 1964 and his brother in law was something to do with that garage, I am sure it was in a prominent place on a corner of a main road.Hello I saw a photo of this garage on a Facebook group dated 1960. Does anyone know the number of the road and any information on dates when it existed. I've had a look at google maps but can't work out where it was. amny thanks karen
Yes it is
Thank youJanice, your map also shows number 10 which was the chip shop mentioned on the other thread. Well done!!
rosie.
Thank youIt was as it was very near the corner of Kyotts Lake Road and the main A34 Stratford Road.
entry from 1963 phone book.
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c1970s map
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My uncle had motor bikes when they lived there think it would have been early 50s for him. My family had good memories of living there.I had my first motorbike at 16 years old, a BSA Bantam Major in 1962 and that garage was where I filled up with 2 stroke mixture. Not self-service of course. Oil in, petrol in, shake the bike to mix the blend and away you go!
Great memories and a good chip shop almost opposite.
Spot on all points John except for:-Shell petrol at 4shillings and 9pence (less than £0.24) per GALLON from one of those pumps with a pipe across the footpath. A Ford 100E, most likely an Anglia, facing away from the camera, and a couple of pints of “stera” (sterilised milk) on the step. My mum used to say it made better rice pud than the pasteurised milk, but my brother and I never liked the taste of tea with it in. Apparently it would keep longer if you hadn’t got a fridge.
What’s the quotation? “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” (L. P. Hartley, The Go Between.)
Channel Island milk, ideal for rice puddings, sorry if I divert from the thread.The milk we had at school, when subjected to temperatures below freezing point, usually were cold and had a thin ice on top. No attempt was made to thaw it. I and a few others usually drank those which were spare as a result.
Incidentally my favourite glass of milk, always drunk cold, is Channel Island milk - much more creamy.