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Warwick Road Acocks Green

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There are three other Warwick Road threads, links are below:


Warwick Road Tyseley
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/warwick-road-tyseley.62315

Warwick Road Greet
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/warwick-road-greet.52998

Warwick Road Olton Solihull
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/warwick-road-olton-solihull.62573.
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Here is a photo for members to id if you don't mind. A pal of mine sent the shot and I just cannot identify its location. Any idea's lads / ladies ?where is this.jpg
 
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I think it has to be Warwick Rd at the Stockfield Road junction and the church would have been the Acocks Green Congregation Church which was replaced by Colliers Garage.


A slight addition, the church was demolished in 1970.
 
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Phil it is as you say. As a five year old would race along the pavement on the left to the smithy, that was opposite the church, to watch horses being shod. Went to Sunday school at that church. The shops on the right included Amison,s, the butcher and Howell's the Greengrocer. Just a little further on, on the left was "The Britannia" pub. When I first married lived in Stockfield Rd.
 
Another view of the Smithy on Warwick Road opposite Stockfield Road. The tag says 1914 but I think it looks older than that.

Added later I've changed the photo for a better copy.

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Post 11 seems to show tram tracks but no overhead wiring. Trams commenced along Warwick Road in 1916 and were abandoned in January 1937.
I agree that Post 14 does give an impression being older than 1914: not one motorized vehicle in sight.
 
A little way down Warwick Road toward Knights Road was Harold Greenways fishing tackle shop the best of it's kind in the area on the 70's. I spent a lot of money on there in there when I was secretary of the Talbot fishing club, but I had to give it up because it interfered with my drinking time.

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I'm almost certain there was a Greenway's fishing tackle shop at Kinstanding too - corner of Hawthorn Road and Warren Farm Road. Viv.
 
quite right viv...i posted a pic of it on the forum..most likely on the kingstanding thread

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Thought at first there was a vehicle parked alongside the shop to the right but think it must be an ironmongers shop with all the ironmonger's paraphernalia on display outside ! Viv.
 
In the fifts and sixtys he sold the old cast iron and fancy tiled fire grates ripped out of those golden ages along with numerous dezigned chimmney pots that people bought for use of planting plants and dezign orniments was the fad for them way back
 
Hi Alan, they were still trading in the 80s (may not have been the same family) I bought some tiles there. As you say some lovley old fire places.
 
A rather poor image of the Methodist Church and Sunday School that I assume was bombed out during WWII and replaced with the new Methodist Church in 1959 that stands at the junction of Warwick Road and Medlicott Road today.

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And this is the junction of Knights Road, Tyseley Hill, Warwick Road where a few notable changes have been made in recent years. No date with this image, but it must be early in the 20th century.

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Phil,Thanks for this series of pictures very much "my patch" in 1940's. No sign of tram lines in this picture and they ran into Acock's Green until 1937. My grandparents used these shops on the corner of Knight's Rd. I recall that the third shop from the left was Tennants, a grocery store and to the left was Whittakers a green grocer. The steeple of the Congregation church on the corner of Stockfield Rd is even in the background of my avatar.
 
Hi robert i hasnt to say they have long gone as you can imagine warick road end its tottally disastor along with te other shops hav all gone on that stretch boarded up either that they are crumberling fast and falling down its deserted he only place surviving is the social club along there best wishes Alan,
 
The Dolphin pub on Warwick Road in 1939. Image from Birmingham Mail.

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And the Spread Eagle, sorry no date (1880/90 ?). Viv.

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Warwick Road, Acocks Green Village, the date has to be around 1912-13 because the building being erected on the corner of Station Road is the Picture Playhouse that opened in 1913. Incidentally it closed in 1929

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I wouldn't think that this photo was taken very long after my previous posted image, but this catches the Red Lion public house to the left with it's horse trough outside so the poor horses could get a drink while their owners refreshed themselves with another type of liquid inside.

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Two pics of the Britannia Pub, on the left near Stockfield Roas looking towards the City.
 
Another image of a horse drawn bus outside the Spread Eagle, Warwick road c1900. Was the Spread Eagle a terminus, I notice on the destination plate it Says Acocks Green and on other similar images it says High street to Acocks Green. Given the way the bus is facing would that be High Street Solihull as opposed to High Street Birmingham?

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My knowledge of horse buses is very limited Phil. There was a period , about the time of the photo, due to ownership changes, when the horse buses connected with the steam trams in the Sparkhill area. The same folk owned them both at various times. The horse buses plied between Sparkhill and Acocks Green, Shirley and Solihull. Inns, pubs and coaching places were obviously a long time stopping place for the transport systems in the centuries before the 20th.
I know you will agree that there was no better place to stop. ;)
 
For about a year steam trams ran up the Warwick Road as far as the Greet Bridge, but the service was uneconomic, so was abandoned as the bridge was too rickety to take the trams, and the service was replaced by horses till and Horse buses were used along the route till February 1916. by then the bridge had been rebuilt and electric trams were introduced. These did not go as far as Acocks green ti Warwick road though till October 1922
 
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The Old Chapel on Warwick Road is now a bridal gown shop and is situated on the left immediately after the railway bridge
as you leave Olton.
 
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