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Summer Lane

MossG was John any relation to Alton Douglas as I remember he wrote many books about the Midlands and in particular Birmingham which read some years ago
 
Thanks Astoness for the picture it doesn't bring any memories back to me but it is about forty years since I was there.

Pamela
 
Hi Corolina,i don't know if they were related but if you go back to Alf's post on reply #337,there is a nice short biography on John Douglas.Moss.
 
#338. Pamela Y. I Have just read a book called a Backstreet Boyhood by Graham Twist. He used to live above The Chemist shop .There are some nice old pictures and memories you may remember.
 
Hi Tommy0121.My Dad HARRY FLOYD knew the LEWIN family.I remember our dad would drop me and my brothers and sisters off at our uncles and he would go to the GEACH PUB.
 
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Hi Tommy0121.My Dad HARRY FLOYD knew the LEWIN family.I remember our dad would drop me and my brothers and sisters off at our uncles and he would go to the GEACH PUB.
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hi irene, nice to hear from you, your dads name rings a bell, who was your uncle? where did they live? dont be shy. tom.
 
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Lovely pic Lyn, and brings back many memories for me. My mother worked at a pram factory on the left hand side of this pic. Is the pub on the right hand side the Shakespeare?
 
Probably the same one as named an area in Fosehill in Coventry - Paradise!
Mind - us "midlands" folk can take a joke!
 
mike ive heard that as well..something to do with the flow of water wasnt it...

bri it was by all accounts a rough and tumble street but then again there were others just like it..i believe that the birmingham arms pub was the best for a good old punch up...they would replace the windows one day and a couple of days later they were through again...lol..having said that from all i have read and been told from folk who lived down the lane there was also a massive community spirit..apart from fridays nights that is...
 
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At the risk of repeating what has said before about this. I don't know how old the picture is...maybe early 1900 or so...the caps look old...I have seen worse circumstances around there. Anyway, the sad thing is that these abodes were around past mid century; when at the picture's, one would see a kitchen in a US house that would be larger than our whole house put together. Occupy Victoria Square would have recieved a rude reception in those days so perhaps things are a bit better now. I think that those folk would have traded community spirit for a private toilette or more than a single cold water tap from a lead pipe.
 
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these shops were at the bottom of the lane..constitution hill end...it was at one time thought they may be saved but they were demolished a few years back...happy to say that at least i can say i went into a couple of shops down summer lane...

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tragic that this building is no longer there...

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stags head pub..summer lane...also showing st chads school on the right down brearley st..

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