Warwick Road Greet

[Paul Burns]

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 !

Hi.
Many thanks for the photo of the old school. I only went there for a few weeks as my parents sent my sister and I to Greenmore College .

Many Thanks.
Paul Burns.

 

[sheila jones]

The shop in the picture (Hydes ) was,up to Nov. 1940,my father's wallpaper and paint shop,(Lewis 's).We were bombed out on the night of 19th Nov 1940,my 4 th birthday,moved out and Hydes took over. Up till then, I remember running alone down Wa rwick Rd to a sweet shop Betteridge 's at the next junction with a copper or two to spend! Could n't do that nowadays aged 3 + or even older.

 

[Paul Burns]

Hi .
Many thanks for your notes about your shop in Warwick Road. Just about going out at a young age, my sister, me and my cousin would be given a bag by my Gran with the empty beer bottles, the correct change and go to the off licence to get a new bottle of beer for our Grandad. Our age about 5-6.

Also to make money, we went around collecting empty Corona bottles and taking them back to the shop to collect the refund.
I tell my Grandchildren all about this and they cannot believe this, shows how times have changed.

Paul Burns.

 

[sospiri]

Paul,

If that money on bottle returns was still operating, a few shrewd operators could even make a living out of it! But I used to like the penny bottles of pop, which was just a flavour tablet dropped in the bottle and then filled with soda water, and you drank there and then on the spot. But then an old penny actually had value.

Maurice

 

[devonjim]

Have a memory of walking home from Tyseley Cinema, after the Saturday matinee, I lived in a grove off Tyseley Lane, it's 1947'ish. We would take a right turn maybe Medina Road and on a corner, maybe with Havelock Rd was a shop that sold 1d "pop" that was made on the premises. Please does anyone else have memories of this haven?

 

[sospiri]

Jim,

Exactly what I described above. Can't help with your location, but mine came from the little shop operated by the Birch family in Knowle Road, Sparkhill adjacent to the allotments entrance, now back to being just a normal house.

Maurice

 

[BrummieGeoff]

devonjim ....
I think this is a photo of the shop on the corner of Medina and Havelock Roads. It's earlier than 1947, but does it ring any bells ?

 

[Jason Ellis]

I think that might well be the corner of Medina Road and Havelock Road, Tyseley. The architecture certainly looks familiar. But if it is, the contemporary title of "Medina Road, Hall Green" isn't right. If it is Medina Road, that is in Tyseley, not Hall Green. I am going to send this to my father who fortuitously at the age of 92 is still 100% compos mentis. What is absolutely crazy about this is that the young lad with his back to the camera in the centre of the shot is the right shape and hairstyle to be my own father!

If, heavenly fortuitously it is him, he will be able to name all of his playmates also in the shot. He still talks about them as it it were just yesterday.

 

[devonjim]

devonjim ....
I think this is a photo of the shop on the corner of Medina and Havelock Roads. It's earlier than 1947, but does it ring any bells ?

Thank you! I would love to say yes but I'm really not sure. I suppose not surprising after 70 odd years! I had a play on GoogleMap and hovered over this view. The premises on the LH corner felt a little familiar. Anyone with a directory confirm that there was a shop here in 1947?

 

[RobT]

Thank you! I would love to say yes but I'm really not sure. I suppose not surprising after 70 odd years! I had a play on GoogleMap and hovered over this view. The premises on the LH corner felt a little familiar. Anyone with a directory confirm that there was a shop here in 1947?

In 1955 there was a Dennis Clarke Shopkeeper at 110 Medina Road, at the junction with Havelock Road

 

[Sajohn]

Looks like Yardley Grammar tuck shop. I was there early 50's & can remember the Smith's Crisps bags of broken crisps for 1d (floor sweepings it was said) The Yardley boys playground was on the left over the fence.
John

 

[devonjim]

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.

As I said I lived off Tyseley Lane, two of our neighbours were engine drivers, my grand father with whom we lived, worked in signal maintenance based at Tyseley, two of his brothers worked for the railways, one as a driver the other as a plate layer. I never got a trip around the sheds but I did get to visit the signal box at Bentley Heath.

 

[Holtie]

Have a memory of walking home from Tyseley Cinema, after the Saturday matinee, I lived in a grove off Tyseley Lane, it's 1947'ish. We would take a right turn maybe Medina Road and on a corner, maybe with Havelock Rd was a shop that sold 1d "pop" that was made on the premises. Please does anyone else have memories of this haven?

Hello! Unfortunately I am slightly to young to remember the corner shop at the time you site. However I can firmly confirm that it was 110 Medina Rd Tyseley, because my mother bought the shop in about 1969/70 from a lady called Mrs Woolley. We lived there till around 1977 and then moved to the Wirral on Merseyside. Even for me it’s astonishing to see the place way back then! Thank you, brings back many memories.

 

[Clive F]

Hello! Unfortunately I am slightly to young to remember the corner shop at the time you site. However I can firmly confirm that it was 110 Medina Rd Tyseley, because my mother bought the shop in about 1969/70 from a lady called Mrs Woolley. We lived there till around 1977 and then moved to the Wirral on Merseyside. Even for me it’s astonishing to see the place way back then! Thank you, brings back many memories.

I can confirm that the shop on the corner of Medina Road and Havelock Road was considered the "tuck shop" for pupils of Yardley Grammar School and in my time at that school, 1957-62 was in the ownership of "Woolleys".

 

[Ogri]

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.

Hi Paul,
I went to greet school in the 50s/60s and if i remember rightly there were 2 shops selling sweets on that section, 1 sold newspapers the other was more cigarettes etc , they had a " Kraven A " sign outside and i bought my first watch from them ,the other had the toy shop on the other side of the road , and ther was a cafe between them .
Cheers
stay safe
Ogri

 

[Pedrocut]

Phil’s post no.31…..The junction of Warwick road and Mountford Street, Greet in 1962, with a head in view if Hyde's newsagent shop.

Post in thread 'Warwick Road' https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/warwick-road.48258/post-603747

 

[stevefaulkner]

The shop in the picture (Hydes ) was,up to Nov. 1940,my father's wallpaper and paint shop,(Lewis 's).We were bombed out on the night of 19th Nov 1940,my 4 th birthday,moved out and Hydes took over. Up till then, I remember running alone down Wa rwick Rd to a sweet shop Betteridge 's at the next junction with a copper or two to spend! Could n't do that nowadays aged 3 + or even older.

Hi Sheila, I think Betteridges was my great uncles shop. He was Norman, had a brother Arthur, and a sister Mary , my Grandmother. Mary married Frederick, my grandfather who died during the war. - Desperate to find a photo of Frederick.