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Ray Barrett
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
No idea where,however, the blokes seem to be wearing their Sunday best.Could it be something to do with Sunday trading hours?.
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Dunno, Jean, I just seem to remember seeing something on the Forum a long time ago about explosives being found in a flat over a shop. Can't find anything on Google linking explosives with Holte Road though.
Just taken a closer look and the top halves of both the shop and the two houses to the left have different brickwork. Where they rebuilt as a result of war damage perhaps? And are those tramlines in the road? Beyond that I'm flummoxed - never was much good at these sort of puzzles - been away from Brum for too long!
Maurice
Just taken a closer look and the top halves of both the shop and the two houses to the left have different brickwork. Where they rebuilt as a result of war damage perhaps? And are those tramlines in the road? Beyond that I'm flummoxed - never was much good at these sort of puzzles - been away from Brum for too long!
Maurice
yes i was a kid at the time of the shop he got raided donkey years ago
when the area started to get the slum cleareance it was one of the lat to go
i knew the area very well wheni was akid after the war we used to go in the old bombed house down the cellers lookingfor helmets and old gas masked and any think we could find did you remember the old picture house in ledsam street ? ,
sosipiri I can remember when they first built the very first block of flats in that area
and seen the blocks of flats being built one by one until the whole entire place of lady wood was over run , by these discusting sites
i went up staple lodge road the other day whilst in birmingham
we thought that when knocking down the old area of staple lodge and building new
houses .how wrong was we , if you look at them closel they are no better than the one they got rid of , they are yet again tommorrows slums
so compact and cramed intogether like the back to back houses of yesterdays
best wishes astonian ;;
when the area started to get the slum cleareance it was one of the lat to go
i knew the area very well wheni was akid after the war we used to go in the old bombed house down the cellers lookingfor helmets and old gas masked and any think we could find did you remember the old picture house in ledsam street ? ,
sosipiri I can remember when they first built the very first block of flats in that area
and seen the blocks of flats being built one by one until the whole entire place of lady wood was over run , by these discusting sites
i went up staple lodge road the other day whilst in birmingham
we thought that when knocking down the old area of staple lodge and building new
houses .how wrong was we , if you look at them closel they are no better than the one they got rid of , they are yet again tommorrows slums
so compact and cramed intogether like the back to back houses of yesterdays
best wishes astonian ;;
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Astonian:
No, I didn't know the area at all really and Dad died when I was still a schoolboy. However, his elder brother, William Sheppard, ran a haulage business from 56 Sherborne Street until after the war, when he moved out of town. About five years ago, on a filthy wet day, I drove up to Birmingham determined to find the old building. Apart from the steam clock all I could see was a vast muddy building site. Braving the rain, I walked through the mud and grabbed one of the building workers to ask if I had the right place. "Too late, mate, we flattened it about three months ago to build more of these yuppy flats!" We all get disappointments in genealogy, but I think that was one of my worst - missed it by a gnat's whisker!
Maurice
No, I didn't know the area at all really and Dad died when I was still a schoolboy. However, his elder brother, William Sheppard, ran a haulage business from 56 Sherborne Street until after the war, when he moved out of town. About five years ago, on a filthy wet day, I drove up to Birmingham determined to find the old building. Apart from the steam clock all I could see was a vast muddy building site. Braving the rain, I walked through the mud and grabbed one of the building workers to ask if I had the right place. "Too late, mate, we flattened it about three months ago to build more of these yuppy flats!" We all get disappointments in genealogy, but I think that was one of my worst - missed it by a gnat's whisker!
Maurice
printmeister
master brummie
June 2 1962: Newsagent Thomas Bates was shot during a robbery in Lee Bank Road. Oswald Grey was convicted for murder and became the last person hanged for murder in Birmingham. (Len did all the work! 
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printmeister
master brummie
While researching this, I came across this on the Time Magazine site:
https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894631,00.html
Anyone remember it? And if they ever caught the perpetrator?
https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894631,00.html
Anyone remember it? And if they ever caught the perpetrator?