My husband used to play table tennis there Georgie. Jean.
Gem St.did have a special needs school, and before that an industrial school.
Ithink I've mentioned my memories of Sheep Street on the Forum before, not very happy one's, for when the nurse came to check you out at the school I attended (St Mary's, Aston Brook) if the following week you were given a sheet of paper to take home with a perforated line across the middle, and a large 'D' stamped on both halves, it was to inform your parents you required dental treatment, and they were to sign and return one half and keep the other. Then a few weeks later the summons would come for them to take you to the Sheep Street Dental Clinic, if you were due for a filling it was best if it was a morning appointment, the Dentist had to press on a foot pedal to make the drill turn, these were usualy lady Dentists so by lunch time they were worn out and in the afternoons the drills turned very slowly and since nearly all fillings were done with a local anasthetic pain was ensured. If you were due an extraction, usually under a general anasthetic, the first bit of torture was a spring loaded device (metal) was put in your mouth so powerful that your mouth was never opened that wide before, then a nasty smelling rubber mask placed over your nose and mouth, in fact almost covering your face!. You came round coughing and spluttering blood, were ejected out of the chair and sent to a small adjoining room containing a row of crock sinks with permanantly flowing taps, and iron cups dangling on chains from the wall to rinse your mouths out! .... There were about six dentist chairs side by side by the way so you suffered everydodys agony, not a very nice place to visit, anyone else remember this place? Don Clive
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Kyrle Hall, Sheep Street was near Birmingham Central Fire Station... I used to get off the bus at the Fire Station and walk to Kyrle Hall for gym in the 60's. Georgie
Kyrle Hall Sheep street.
I'm not sure Brumgum. I just have the one I posted as Kyrle Hall. Certainly, as kyrle Hall is listed as being built in the 1890s, yours is more likely to be the original. Possibly there was an extension to it later.
Hi Georgie, We lived next door at number 62 ,I was 10 years old, we used to play in your G G Grandfather warehouse lol . We would wait for them to lock up and sneak in at night ( Great times) My dad also did some work for G G father .Sheep Street, Aston
I have only just joined the Webring... so here goes.
My father sold 59, 60 and 61 Sheep Street on 12 March 1971... this was required for the Gosta Green Redevelopment Area. Now Aston University.
In a letter dated November 1969 the Corporation were going to "erect an additonal Raking Shore towards the front of the boundary wall, which should prevent movement. Demolish a further portion of the front wall of the adjoining demolished cottage to reduce wind resistance." .....etc.
My Great Grandfather purchased 59/61 Sheep Street in 1915 for £ 560 it was then called "Centaur Tool Works" but my families business was N.Budd & Son, Tent and Marquee Hire.
I have copied the above from the original letters.
Georgie Garrett
Hi i lived in buck street at number 32 up ontill it was knocked down and was moved out to kingstandingHello all. Would it be possible for any of the members who had kindly posted photos of Sheep St, Gem St and Buck St to re-post them if they can. My father lived at 1/33 Buck Street with my Nan and Grandad before the war.with regards to the photo of buck street in post 99 it cant be 1945,as I was living in buck st: and to get wood for the v-e bonfire to celebrate the end of the war, we took it from the mission which had been bombed, workmen were in the process of clearing all the rubble away, whilst they were having a break, we took some old wood and when the foreman returned he called the police and had us pinched for theft. I had to go to court and was find 2/6p in old money. that conviction stopped me from getting a job on the post office. i was 1 0 year old at the time of this dreadful crime. our house was at the bottom of buck st on the right by the globe pub opposite queenies kip house. Joe Iommi lived half way up buck street, I believe it is his grandson tony who played with black Sabbath. John Ellis