Dionysius//88
master brummie
Lyn during 1970-77 I used to nip to the newsagents for 10 Embassy tipped as I only worked across the road in Henrietta St . I could'nt buy 20 or they'd have had them all off me at work
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Summer Lane
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
“The Elevator, or workshop, as the men prefer to call it, is a large rectangular building.
It was originally an old gun factory. The waste-paper (which is sorted into fourteen different grades) and other salvage is collected locally; its treatment and packing for the mills give employment, as we stated above, to fifty men, who get through something like twenty tons a week.”
It was originally an old gun factory. The waste-paper (which is sorted into fourteen different grades) and other salvage is collected locally; its treatment and packing for the mills give employment, as we stated above, to fifty men, who get through something like twenty tons a week.”
Just realised that the earlier post of the gateway says it was in Summer Lane, but the text states it was in Loveday Street. I notice there was a model Lodging house in Summer Lane that was opposite the hospital . could ther ebe two SA sites and paper confused them
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thanks mike i did wonder as it did not look like a summer lane building to me
lyn
Dionysius//88
master brummie
Where would that have been on Summer Lane then people ?
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Dionysius//88
master brummie
Thank You Lyn
Some history. Where exactly was St George's - in - the - fields church (built 1822) ? 
Soirce: British Newspaper Archive
Soirce: British Newspaper Archive
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Thank you ! Not a church I've heard of before. Crazy to think it was once "in the fields"/allotments/guinea gardens.
map of the guinea gardens also posted on below thread
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/birmingham-guinea-gardens.59045
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/birmingham-guinea-gardens.59045
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Dionysius//88
master brummie
Viv a very good find and very interesting
Dionysius//88
master brummie
Do you know Lyn I thought that tobacconist would be there forever
That is right next to the yard of the firm that I worked for" Preedy's, wholesale Tobacconists and confectioners " I was there in 1960 to i think 1964.
Thankyou Lynn for that
i was hoping the whole of summer lane would be there forever
now wouldnt that be a treatlyn
Dionysius//88
master brummie
Dionysius//88
master brummie
Me too especially the pubsi was hoping the whole of summer lane would be there forever
lyn
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Hi Lyn,i was hoping the whole of summer lane would be there forever
lyn
I'm just completing the whole of the High Street, Erdington. It started off as a project but has now turned into a Power Point. This is with great help from this website and especially MikeJee who scanned many directories for me and the posts on the Erdington threads. The pictures aren't all of the same date but it does give an overall feel of the street in times gone by.
I've got a couple of projects to finish for Heritage Week and then I'll have a go at it for Summer Lane if you like.
Penny x
brummy-lad
master brummie
There appears to be 3 threads for Summer Lane, this is the main one, the others are:-
if a moderator would like to combine them please.
if a moderator would like to combine them please.
John Duffy
New Member
Yes l’ve a couple more that I’ve never posted, Perry Barr, Erdington & Warren Farm Road that one being because of the loss of life it doesn’t seem appropriate but the one above was mine collected, I posted on facebook a short while ago, it was published in the Evening Mail & happened to be opposite where my wife was working P M HART late 60s.