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Post by beachcomber on Nov 14, 2016 18:19:34 GMT
A couple more photos of "The Cov" , once again I apologise if they have been posted before but I did look and couldn't see them anywhere. I'm glad to find these - I was going to ask if anyone remembered that 2nd hand shop. My mother always referred to it as the 'rag shop', and there was always a guy outside wearing a leather jerkin like the dustmen used to wear. I remember it because if we behaved ourselves we were treated to a plastic windmill from there as we walked back to Mansel Road. Very possibly after a visit to the 'welfare' as mum called it, for jabs and health checks. It must have been almost opposite that 2nd hand shop. My sister and I were reminiscing about the beautiful big dapple grey rocking horse that took our minds off the horrors to come!
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Post by mac on Nov 15, 2016 13:04:08 GMT
A couple more photos of "The Cov" , once again I apologise if they have been posted before but I did look and couldn't see them anywhere. I'm glad to find these - I was going to ask if anyone remembered that 2nd hand shop. My mother always referred to it as the 'rag shop', and there was always a guy outside wearing a leather jerkin like the dustmen used to wear. I remember it because if we behaved ourselves we were treated to a plastic windmill from there as we walked back to Mansel Road. Very possibly after a visit to the 'welfare' as mum called it, for jabs and health checks. It must have been almost opposite that 2nd hand shop. My sister and I were reminiscing about the beautiful big dapple grey rocking horse that took our minds off the horrors to come! Beachcomber
I'm not an ex resident of Small Heath so I could be wrong in what I am saying. I think you are describing the old Small Heath Peoples Dispensary on the corner of Henshaw Road that later became The Public Health Department Maternity & Child Welfare Centre I believe the building is still standing today, sorry I cant help you with the second hand shop, What year are we talking about?
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Post by beachcomber on Nov 18, 2016 15:10:16 GMT
Yes - that building would have been on the corner of Henshaw Road, and a quick look at 'Streetview' reveals that it is still there. It would have been the early 1950s when we were visiting there as small children. I can still smell the 'medicinal' smell, and hear the clatter of the small chairs on the parquet floor. It was only the lure of that wonderful rocking horse that got us in there!
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Post by mac on Nov 27, 2016 12:00:19 GMT
This scene would have been somewhat in the same area, but more or less opposite the stretch of Coventry Rd between Langley Rd and Henshaw Rd. It shows Small Heath Congregational Church and must have been taken in the 1920's because by the 30's number 476 had become Boots and after a couple of years change again to a newsagents and remained as such as long as the records I have show in 1974. Though I see now from Google that it is now some sort of an Accident Management company. Attachments:
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Post by mac on Dec 1, 2016 14:12:23 GMT
Bertram Boy Here are a few more images centring on the same scene throughout the years. I thing the first one dated 1890 would give the most problems for making an identification without the others for comparison.
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Post by mac on Jan 6, 2017 11:58:20 GMT
Back on Coventry Road, first another old but easily recognised scene, its outside the main gates of Small Heath park and is the once Small Heath tram terminus. The second image is a bit harder to locate though the shop once would have stood a little further down the road on the opposite side of the road to the park between Mandel and Aubrey roads where the car sales now stands.
1. Small Heath Tram terminus. 2. Eileen Taveners Florist Shop 710 Coventry Rd.
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Post by Jerry on Jan 6, 2017 18:31:06 GMT
Hi Mac Sorry about that, I had to block new attachments while I did some maintenance work. Should be OK now. Jerry
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Post by mac on Jan 7, 2017 20:21:30 GMT
Thanks Jerry I have now edited the post, so if you want you can delete these last two posts.
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Post by pedro42 on Jan 10, 2017 19:08:17 GMT
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Post by kev on Nov 17, 2019 16:01:02 GMT
This picture is taken looking towards the junction with Grange road and the entrance on the left is probably to the Whitmore Club which was there from around the 18th century and demolished to build the shops that now exist on the Coventry Road and the grounds which extended to the rear extended as far as what is now Glovers Road and were built on to form Cyril and Whitmore Road houses I think.
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Post by John Warre on Feb 27, 2021 22:04:06 GMT
I recognise some of the pictures. I lived at 466 1947 to 1954. My grandfather H W Warre was a keen photographer and probably took some of the pictures around 1890 to 1948. Grandma was nee Gregory and part owner of 282 which was Gregory Milliner shop (I’ve some photos). The family set up a branch shop in Weston AKA Birmingham by the sea and closed 466 in about 1960.
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