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Warwick Road Greet

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Brings back so many memories, I used to live in greet and went to Greet School. I must have used this road hundreds of times.
 
More memories, I was a driver for Lowes Transport when their yard was almost on the corner of Manor Farm Road. I drove a large artic the length and breadth of England Scotland and Wales for a few years for that good old firm.
 
I previously posted on another thread that my Dad worked as a viewer at the Brooke Tool Co. in Greet and my sister worked at the toffee factory almost next door. I occasionally to load my lorry with tubes from Serk over the road. I did once load 60 foot long stainless steel tubes polished up the bore and delivered them to a Power station.
 
Stitcher

I worked at the Brook tool in my first job after leaving school in 1962, I remember it as a terrible place that paid terrible wages to the young people that worked there who were expected to turn out the same amount of work as the adults for a third of the wages, I lasted about three months before I walked out. I also remember in the late 70's when the factory was converted into units we leased two parts of the factory as our depot, but when the lease expired we moved to bigger premises. I see that it is all part of the computer Tech outfit SCC now.

Over the road as you say was The Serck I had friends that worked there as well and they say the deal was near enough the same there, it's no wonder I ended up working for myself. I think the young people that are able to find a job today (the few that can) get a much better deal than we ever did.

This photo of lorry drivers outside the Serck are too early for you to be among them I should imagine.

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Phil said:
Stitcher

I worked at the Brook tool in my first job after leaving school in 1962, I remember it as a terrible place that paid terrible wages to the young people that worked there who were expected to turn out the same amount of work as the adults for a third of the wages, I lasted about three months before I walked out. I also remember in the late 70's when the factory was converted into units we leased two parts of the factory as our depot, but when the lease expired we moved to bigger premises. I see that it is all part of the computer Tech outfit SCC now.

Over the road as you say was The Serck I had friends that worked there as well and they say the deal was near enough the same there, it's no wonder I ended up working for myself. I think the young people that are able to find a job today (the few that can) get a much better deal than we ever did.

This photo of lorry drivers outside the Serck are too early for you to be among them I should imagine.

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Yes Phil, a bit before my time but a great photo.
 
Well phil it aint changed much from them days to todays dys i can tell you
only there was not much traffic in thoses days
Alan,, Astonian;;;
 
Phil said:
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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Phil, there was also another church, or more correctly, a Mission Hall, it was called St Bedes. I used to go to Sunday School there. It was a green corrugated building opposite the Warwick Road side of Greet School.
 
Looks like it was originally a tin tabernacle. Think it would have originally been just the one building and may have had an extension added at a later date. Good to hear it's still there ! Viv.
 
Hi.
My parents ran the sweet shop No 237 Warwick Road, Greet and ran it for a few years. We moved from the shop in 1966 and went to Bewdley Worcs.

On trip last year to find the places we lived at, I found that the house my Father/Mother lived in No 65 Hume Street - next to the garage was now a car park for Asda supermarket. Next was Warwick Road to find the sweet shop and this is now buried under a dual carriageway.

Would any member have any details or photo's of Hume Street and Warwick Road and when was the old buildings pulled down to make the road way.

Many Thanks.
Paul Burns.
 
Here's a photo of Warwick Road in Greet between St John's Road and Percy Road c1963 ..... was the shop in this block ?
 

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Here's a photo of Warwick Road in Greet between St John's Road and Percy Road c1963 ..... was the shop in this block ?
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Great photo Brummie Geoff, but if shop was at 237 Warwick Road, I believe it would be further down the hill, past the Greet Pub and the petrol station, and just past an island, in the direction of Golden Hillock Road but not that far, as you can see from the map it was near the Waggon & Horses public house.

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Hi.
Many thanks for your help and yes that's the shop as shown on the map. I think that 235 was a cafe as I and my sister played with the children who lived there. We both went to the school in Percy Road ,which is still there I think.

With the photo of Warwick Road, about where the middle car/van is driving away from the photographer there is some one standing in a white coat and the shop was around that area. and opposite the shop was a toy shop.

As for Hume Street, I forgot to put that it's in Cape Hill Smethwick.

Many thanks .
Paul Burns.
 
Paul Burns said:
Hi.

As for Hume Street, I forgot to put that it's in Cape Hill Smethwick.

Many thanks .
Paul Burns.
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Yes I had realised that, here is a map to show the position, the road coming downwards on the right hand side is Windmill Lane, and below the Garage on the right was a Billiard Hall

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Paul Burns said:
Hi.
My parents ran the sweet shop No 237 Warwick Road, Greet and ran it for a few years. We moved from the shop in 1966 and went to Bewdley Worcs.

On trip last year to find the places we lived at, I found that the house my Father/Mother lived in No 65 Hume Street - next to the garage was now a car park for Asda supermarket. Next was Warwick Road to find the sweet shop and this is now buried under a dual carriageway.

Would any member have any details or photo's of Hume Street and Warwick Road and when was the old buildings pulled down to make the road way.

Many Thanks.
Paul Burns.
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Hi Paul,
I know this is a bit further up the road in Tyseley, but in my memory that stretch of the Warwick Road from Tyseley to Greet is merged in one. I love this photo: horse-drawn vehicles and manure in the road, gas lamps, the tram lines and overhead cables. My grandfather lived at 519 Warwick Road (a GWR engine driver) and as a child I used to love sliding down those banisters.

My father often repeats a story that during the war a barrage balloon broke loose from its mooring on the corner of Reddings lane and floated down this very stretch of the Warwick Road, with my father and his pals chasing it and hanging onto its cables all the way to the Greet. After the war my father worked a as an auto setter at Brook Tool in the Greet.
Jason
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Unfortunately I think the Greet shop is just out of shot on this aerial photo from June 1935 (from the excellent Britain from Above site).
But it does give a good view of Greet Primary School .... I went there too 1961-67.
I recall that the Fellowes sweet shop on the corner of Percy Road and Lea Road got a lot of the school trade. There were a lot more sweet shops around in those days !
 

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Yes I had realised that, here is a map to show the position, the road coming downwards on the right hand side is Windmill Lane, and below the Garage on the right was a Billiard Hall

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Hi.
Many thanks for this , Managed to kick a few footballs on the roof of the garage and our window cleaner made a few bob getting them off the roof. I was born there in 1954 my sister was also born there in 1952.

The little square box at the bottom of the garden was the outside small room !

I'm sure that there was a Scribbans Bakery in the same road - but might be wrong.

Do you know roughly when the superstore was built, I had a look in a old A-Z of Birmingham dated 1988 and shows it was there.

All this info is going into a history folder of my family and all info received so far is most welcome.
Paul Burns.
 
Jason Ellis said:
Hi Paul,
I know this is a bit further up the road in Tyseley, but in my memory that stretch of the Warwick Road from Tyseley to Greet is merged in one. I love this photo: horse-drawn vehicles and manure in the road, gas lamps, the tram lines and overhead cables. My grandfather lived at 519 Warwick Road (a GWR engine driver) and as a child I used to love sliding down those banisters.

My father often repeats a story that during the war a barrage balloon broke loose from its mooring on the corner of Reddings lane and floated down this very stretch of the Warwick Road, with my father and his pals chasing it and hanging onto its cables all the way to the Greet. After the war my father worked a as an auto setter at Brook Tool in the Greet.
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Hi.
Many thanks for the photo, I remember this part of the road be it a bit more busy when I used to go loco spotting at Tyseley shed. These visits with out getting caught started my career of the footplate for 40 years.

There used to be a couple of drivers who would come into the shop in the early morning to pick up their cigs and they made promises to take me around the shed - I'm nearly 67 and still waiting.

Thanks again for the photo.

Paul Burns.
 
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