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Vine Inn Villa Street

At last Lyn..the good and the bad news!!!!..this is what you have been waiti for..hope I am putting it on the right page but I'm syre it will get to you!! The picture I have got of the Vine Inn is the samre as the one you have got...BUT I have got one of 93 Villa Street, Dec 29 1960,( the one you have got I HAVE GOT DATED may 21st. 1954)...I've also got one of Villa St. from one end, much older...one of Birmigham House pub Dec 5th. 1966,one 0f 67 Villa st.( i think) towards Nursery RD.AND 2 OTHERS THAT HOPEFULLY YOU CAN IDENTIFY! ...to begin with !! I'm excited for you so ...as it will take me forever to learn how to put them on here if you send me your email address Ican scan them . send them toy you as attachments and you can put them on here!! TODAY!!!!!!...
MY MOTHER IN LAW was/is!!! TYPING GONE TO POT IN MY HURRY) Olive Moorhouse 5 back of 113 Villa Street.( born 1924 at 5 Cartes Place Villa Steet. She married in 1942 aged 18 to Len Morrall...dad was Alfred( died 1940) mom was Frances . HOPE THATKEEPS YOU GOING TO THE NEXT INSTALLMENT...ENJOY!!!
hanna
 
hi ya hanna...i will happily have any pics of villa street you have...thank you so much for taking the time...i thought it was to good to be true getting two different pics of the vine...but no matter i am happy with the one we do have...ok i am sending you a private message with me email address...thanks ever so much...

lyn..

ps..cant be sure if you moorhouses and the ones i know belong to the same family...i will have to go into it more for you...
 
all sent:wave:...hope you won't be too disappointed with these...hope too that others will enjoy them when you put them up..I'd be so chuffed to have something to share!!:beam:
 
astoness hows things been reading allthe replys the Moorhouses had relations up the street opposite thevillatavern (dirty dicks is what we called it) called hadlington
ynot
 
hi ynot..i think me and hanna are soon about to make the moorhouse connection...its a long story and we are still trying to work it all out..thanks for that..i would give anything for a pic of the villa tavern...may turn up one day...the vine did...:)

lyn
 
all will shortly be explained in full....but may i be the first to announce ...that .. I am related , by marriage to the best friend of Lyn...via the Moorhouse clan!!!:)but it's complicated!!!
 
:D:D and whats more earlier on hanna kindly emailed me those photos she said had of villa street but guess what..??? i had them in my house a few weeks before(including the vine pub pic) they came to me via my connection with the moorhouse clan...thought we were going barmy:rolleyes: mind you hanna still thinks she may be able to get some more pics so i am ever hopefull...

cheers hanna..its good to meet you....

lyn
 
o boy here we go again...lol..hanna the villa tavern was at 147 villa street...so not far from your olive moorhouse who was at 113..chances are if they were drinking folk they would have gone in there....it was demolished in the early 60s....i really cant beleive that after so long after first posting about villa street and the vine and not much happening this last few weeks its really come to life...brillient...

lyn:)
 
another Moorhouse link????...Ivy and Arthur HADDLETON who also lived on Villa Street...Ivy was the sister of Alan and Olive and the other Moorhouses...according to my husband there were alot of them!!!
 
hanna go to post num 50...ynots gran ran the vine inn and he also remembers the hadletons...this just gets better and better...

lyn..
 
I read that post earlier on but didn't make the connection as at that point I didn't know that Arthur and Ivy lived in Villa Steet...it was a passing comment from my husband ,as I once more dragged him to the computor away from his paper!!!.. Now wouldn't it be lovely if somebodyreading this knew Morralls and made the connection...a bit like your Vine Inn excitement!!
 
Astoness it wasthe mortons who lived at 113 villa street not the moorhouses (they were related) olive moorhouse used to work at the vine by the way do u remember hunts grocers shop sorry didnt reply beforebeen away tospain
cheers ynot
 
hi ynot..hope you had a good time...:) thanks for that info..its hanna who is related to the moorhouses so i am sure she will be interested...there was a little shop just before the vine and of course a little drapers shop a few doors after the cafe on the corner but the one i remember the most was at num 112 3 doors down from me..it laid back off the road as did the house next to it..a lovely irish lady named mary ann lived there although she was always telling us off for climbing onto to airaid shelter that backed onto her back garden:rolleyes:..the name hunts rings a bell but it was the wiltons i recall running this shop...dot and mal and they had a daughter linda and a son...i used to be mates with linda and occasionally work a few hours in the shop for a few quid....happy days...:)
 
just a quickie...olive moorhouse says she didn't work at the VINE!!!:(..says her mother before her did but i think, that must have been 1940 or before cos Oloive is now 84!!!...she remembers a lot of family names around that time...but I've forgotten them!!:rolleyes:... I'll write them down and post them on here!!!
 
Re: 198 Villa Street.

Hiya Lin. I forgot to tell you. I enlisted the help of a Genealogist back in 2005, in the search for a picture of the house I lived in, behind that Garage. I found an old Map some time ago in the Central Library, and on it the house was called, Grove House. Gordon, the Genealogist. Accessed the Website, A2A (Access to Archives) and came up with documents held at the Central Library that he'd previously found.

There were no "hits" for Grove house, and 7 for Villa street, mostly relating to deeds of the properties in that street which was laid out in 1843. He was looking at the map I gave him of the area and he thinks that Grove house pre-dated other properties and that they were in effect, built around Grove house and other existing buildings, even the big Villa which is still standing next door. I wonder if Mikejee could find us something on his maps.? Reg, Cookie55.
 
The 1851 Census entries suggest that Grove house and properties nearby were middle class residences. Two families, infact, inhabit Grove house, Which in itself indicates that it must have been a fair size.

I know it was! because we lived there, for 7 years. Reg.
 
Hanna it must be your mother inlaw that worked for my gran at thevine inn minnie jones my name is tony southall had abrother named terry.
Welived there from1940 to1953
went to school with johnny moorhose .billy morton bob?harris
bob houghton anyhelp????
Yont:d
 
Hijohn
which schools did i goto blimey alot were bombed but here wego brougham st.anglesey st.gowerst.alma st back to gower st franciesconvent inhunters road iused to knock around with robert houghton is dad was adust man he made me asmashing bykeup it was great.helived at 125 villa street n/d to thevine
his momwas always feeding me any relation?????
Ynot:d
 
hi all..im absolutely delighted that after making some enquires i will soon have another 2 pics to go with the one below... the reporter took 3 pics of the locals inside the vine inn on the last day of opening...to date all i had was this one as a newspaper cutting but i will now be ordering copies of all 3:):)

lyn
 
thanks shirl..im chuffed to bits as the vine inn has been a mission for me lol....just received this morning a copy of the pic of our dad in the acorn wheeler st...the quality is amazing...

lyn
 
Lyn I am thrilled for you. It's great when you find info on your family but a photo of your Dad fantastic!!
 
vine inn 120 year old..taken 1978 mr howard eaton from icknield st on harmonica...jpg vine_inn_1978_4956871.jpg hi all...just received from mirrorpix 2 photos taken from the original pics of the locals in the vine inn on the day it closed:( november 1978....ive still got one more to order and i think the quality of the pics are marvelous...in the second pic you can see on the right the little serving hatch us kids used to buy our crisps and pop...we got to it down the entry...to say im delighted with these is an understatement...i know our old neighbour and best friend of our dads is in the first pic and i will ask him if he recognises anyone in the second..




cheers.

lyn
 
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My parents were the licensees in 1970, Colin and Mary cotrell, thanks for posting the picture, bought back a lot of memories.
 
janeey said:
My parents were the licensees in 1970, Colin and Mary cotrell, thanks for posting the picture, bought back a lot of memories.
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hi janeey there are no pics of the vine inn villa st on this thread so just wondering if you have seen it on the other thread i started???

i was living in villa street until 72 so your parents would have served our dad many times...do you have any photos of the vine or of the street as i am always on the lookout for new ones...

lyn
 
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Vivienne14 said:
They really squeezed that one in Lyn. Be very intimate on busy nights! Viv.
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lol viv...it was not a massive pub but had a lounge and bar to it..think the gardens were bigger than the two rooms put together...even now im still chuffed to have this one...

lyn
 
I am 51 years old and my mom and dad was best friends with Cora & Cyril who used to run the vine pub they had a daughter Ann at the time I knew them when I was eleven Ann was like a big sister can't remember much more at the moment our family were the SEYMOURS and lived at 1 back of 144 villa street had to go down a Halley between 2 houses to get to our house it was facing the car park of the big business place think it was called southalls
 
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