Correction to my own post - I was obviously thinking of Walter Street. Apologies.Hi Astonian,
I think it ran from the junction of Rocky Lane and Charles Arthur Street through to Long Acre but I may well be corrected by the map experts.
hi dave
many thanks for your thread its okay you did not have to opologise
but by putting a another reply for correction , you in turn have made me realise my mistake yesterday in another thread regarding the old brs road services parcel depot when i asked did any body remember the base ,i said rupert st , in fact you have just reminded me it was in fact walter street so thats why nobody remembered it
thanks dave , have a nice day .best wishes astonian ;;;;
Hi I’m a Newbe to these sites, but interested in Rocky Lane / Tubes Ltd. I was an engineering apprentice at Tubes 1963 - 68 and then worked in the maintenance department for a further 2 years, leaving in September 1970 to work as a draughtsman at Joseph Lucas - King Street. Certainly remember WH Street / Hen and Chicken pub, a fellow apprentice of mine - Keith Davis and his brother lived in WH St, I remember during the early 60s looking out from the Forge Dept into WH St and seeing Mandy Rice Davis and Christine Keeler pulling up in a white Rolls Royce, at the time the boxer Jonney Prescott lived in WH St and he was involved with both of the ‘ girls ‘ . Anybody out there that remembers Tubes Ltd and engineering apprentices from that time. …..Happy memories of the company, the sports ground in Boldmere, the outward bound centre in North Wales - Plas , technical college, Albert Wykes our first year apprentice instructor ( great guy and wonderful engineer - respect ) the motorcycles the apprentices had and during lunch could be found working on them, the girls in the post room…..happy days !If anyone is still interested in William Henry Sreet I can give you more details, My Fathers family all lived in that street, and it was a 'dead end' it did indeed start from 'Rocky Lane' opposite Cheston Road, looking up the street from Rocky Lane the 'Hen and Chickens' pub was on the right, (my father met my mother there when she worked as a barmaid during WW 1!) there was a cafe on the opposite corner then three or four hoses, from then on the houses had long front gardens and the houses (Terrace Type) were immediately at the foot of the railway embankment, these carried right on on up to the top of the street. at the top were Railway Sideings. coming back down there were houses with no front gardens, but also houses lying at the back of them, these were accsessed by narrow 'entry's', one of my aunt's lived up one of these and her neighbour used a horse and cart to sell fruit & veg around Aston, overnight he would leave the cart in the street but would un harness the horse and send him up the entry, many a time I've come face to face with the horse as a child and boy was he big! his stable was alongside the house. As was the norm in those days, nearly all my fathers brothers and sisters, when they married managed to rent houses in William Henry Street. My motger by the way originated from Kidderminster and was sent to Birmingham on War work, making blankets for soldiers, she worked for Brintons in 'Kiddy' as a carpet weaver, and the bar work was extra. Don Clive