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St Saviour's Church, Saltley

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Here's a nice postcard of St Saviours I am not sure of the date but just look at the graveyard!
 

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Thanks for the pic thats where my great uncle William known as Bill was married in 1889 to his wife Sarah Flood.
It was nice to see a photo of the church
Thanks again
Lindy
 
St. Saviour's

Thanks for the phot Moma P. It looks 'awesome!' My gt.Grandad/Mother were married there in 1886. I now have a good 'print-out', for my collection.


Finding - Draper/Roberts/Mc.Carthy/Rutter/Wood.
 
Heres a few pictures i took while ridding my bike on Sunday.
 

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Re: St Saviours and the rosery

I used to live oposite St. Saviours, in Ash Road. It always seemed to be a dark, forboding building, and the Vicarage (next door in St Saviours Road) was a grim place. I used to play in the church yard which was always overgrown.

For some unknown reason the Rosary School and my secondary school, Cherrywood, were staunch rivals. No idea why, I suppose they just didn't like each other.
 
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suemalings said:
I used to live oposite St. Saviours, in Ash Road. It always seemed to be a dark, forboding building, and the Vicarage (next door in St Saviours Road) was a grim place. I used to play in the church yard which was always overgrown.

For some unknown reason the Rosary School and my secondary school, Cherrywood, were staunch rivals. No idea why, I suppose they just didn't like each other.
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i used to live on ash road in the massonets you are right the grave yard has always been overgrown.cherrywood school was also used on a saturday for lads who had been in trouble,they used to do pe in the morning and wood work in the afternoon.
 
I lived in the flats oposite Hall Road (Block number 55)

I knew the Bebbington family and Mary Lamb who lived in your masionettes.

I lived there from about 1955 to 1967. did you go to Adderley and Cherrywood?
 
suemalings said:
I lived in the flats oposite Hall Road (Block number 55)

I knew the Bebbington family and Mary Lamb who lived in your masionettes.

I lived there from about 1955 to 1967. did you go to Adderley and Cherrywood?
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i lived on ash road in 1980 for about a year and they moved us to collage road where i lived till i got married.ps i knew about cherrywood of a saturday because i was sent there for being a naughty boy!!!
 
Hello I remember St Saviours well as I used to go to the church hall as part of Margaret Reids dancing class.
I was aged 11 when I joined and we put on a concerts there in 1962. I used to go to the Rosary junior school and lived in Alum Rock near the Pelham until I was 25. It has sadly changed beyond recognition now. Its nice to hear of familiar haunts from the past. Does anyone remember the Grand Cinema and Saturday afternoon cinema for kids at the Capitol:) ?
Cheers Silve
 
For anyone interested it looks like the vegetation in the graveyard has been cut back and the gravestones are visible. However, it was locked this morning. I don't know if that is temporary, permanent or a bit of bad luck with my timing.
 
Thanks Phil.

I had a similar problem when I went 18 months ago...

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None of my relatives mentioned in the subsequent blogs but hoping they're there somewhere.
 
I think the gates are always locked now. My mom lived in Ash Road until 2011 and I haven't seen the gates open for years. When my mom was a girl, her and her brothers used to pick the bluebells from the church yard and would get a right telling off from my grandmother.
 
Hi fashioz
To be honest with you I also have never seen those gates ever open even like your self as kids we done the number 8 bus route evey Sunday when we was kids
And I lived in Ladywood then and it cost up three penny all the way round it was never open even walked pas quite area time always over grown
But I can go back further than that as I was born in Cromwell terrace Lichfield rd and it was a few years down the line when I was eight
Our neibours started to move out and the first to go was the sharps family and they moved into a maisonette directly oppersite that grave yard
And our dad took us there to that maisonette building it was two high on a Sunday morning to visit them we are talking 1952/3 years
Them building was demoed and they built them houses after that which still stand today that was the only time I seen them open
Then our other neibour from the terrace was the cradfocks whom moved up the alum rock they was posh family craham was my friend
They kept a posh house compared to most of us up the terrace I went to see him and it was a posh Ouse a big one big hall way entrance and a big garden the red was well tree lined not like today and most of brums trees chopped down best wishes astonian
 
st savioursst saviours rd hall rd and ralph dr.jpgHere are a couple of pics of St Saviours and a couple I think were taken from St Saviours , the first one showing St Saviours Road Hall Road and Ralph Road I think , the second showing Ash Road and Hall Road and Astorions flats
 
Michael lived in Ralph Road and was a server and Bell Ringer at St Saviour's. When he was an apprentice he made a new hinge pin for the flag pole, which can be seen in berniew's photo. We went a few years ago, the graveyard was in an awful state. There was a lot of Japanese Knot-weed everywhere. Such a shame but I suppose the local population now don't have the interest in the church. If you go to villages across the country the graveyards are usually beautifully kept...Such a pity.
 
wendy ;
sorry t have to say within this age of generations of populations thereare not many faithful and beleivers left i am afraid in this world of today
but i recall it in the late fortys and early fifty,s that grave yard was left unattended for year before i ever seen it and i was only a little whipper snapper visting that family of sharps in those old astorian flats which of todays grammer they call them masonettes
take a look around the area its a differnt culture and the ageing poulation have passed over that was the church goer and beleiver we have many different cultures now
and there buryials are completely different beleives to ours do you know whether anybody attends that cemetry o church best ishes astonian;;
 
Love these pictures berniew. As I grew up in Ash Road. The second pic of Hall Road leading to Ash Road you can see the factories behind the flats. That area was my own private playground (there are houses built there now) as our house was right next to the 'opening'. Mom worked in one of those factories when she was in her 20s, painting wood grain on trunks I think. Some of the factories/workshops where housed in the old stables of Saltley Farm, which had been demolished before I got there. There were still rubble from the house, bricks and columns. I learnt to skate and ride a bike in 'the opening', hard going skating as it wasn't tarmac-ed just dirt and stones.
Thanks for posting, brought back lots of memories.
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The photo of Ash Road shows the flats I used to live in. The block on the left. We lived at number 1 which is the flat on the ground floor on the left side. Next door in the house was Mr & Mrs Payne. I used to stand on their wall, ring their bell and run away. I used to play in the church yard and on Saturday myself and a friend would go and watch the weddings and collect the confetti. The gates in Hall Road were always locked and overgrown, we used to get in through a gap in the railings or walk up to the gates in St Saviours Road.

I used to roller skate up Hall Road and then come down again at high speed towards Ash Road and swing around the corner at full pelt!
 
I hear it's been cleared a bit now but the last time I passed anyone would have had trouble getting in or out you would have needed a machete to roller skate around there Suemallings. Smashing photos Wendy
 
berniew - any ideas when the photo of Ask Road might have been taken? We can just make out the Post Office Tower in the background and know that was built in 1961. Judging by the lack of cars in the picture, it is probably between 1961-1965.
 
Hello Robert my grandmother was Clarissa Yates. Yates is a very common name around Birmingham I haven't found a connection as yet. Good luck with your search.
 
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