Alum Rock Saltley

[frederick]

On that type of engine are the pistons inbetween the front wheels as I have often wondered      does anyone know.

[tony armstrong]

i can remember trespassing in train yards at the side of duddeston mill station in the early fifties on and off the trains being chased by the night watchman we came to no harm just mischief we also used to get chased by stable man in the coop stables in francis st happy days.

[Phil]

Tony
 
Just up from those stables was a shop and next door to the shop "Hardings" was where I lived.

[MWS]

My first memories of this shop was as a Qwick Save  Phil
Dek

As far as I can remember (which admittedly doesn't go beyond mid 70's) the supermarket on the corner of George Arthur Road was always a Tesco and the Kwik Save was a bit closer to the gate. There was also a Tesco about halfway up on the other side which I think sold mainly clothes.

[tony armstrong]

i know phil you have mentioned it before i  lived at 4/185 francis st same yard as the hortons/savages/sabins and at the bottom of dennis otooles garden on other side of the road.

[Phil]

Dek & MWS
 
We have got to be talking of roundabout 1958/59 I haven't got a directory for that year so if you are looking in Mike any idea? or anybody else for that matter.

[mikejee]

don't have that date Phil. All I can give you is :
 
1956
21 coop butchery
23 sumner house furnishers
25 florence , milliner
27 Gill drug store
George arthur rd

1962
21 coop butchery
23 sumner house furnishers
25 florence , milliner
27 woodwards drug store
George arthur rd

1963
21 coop butchery
25 florence , milliner
27 woodwards drug store
George arthur rd
 
1964
21 coop butchery
27 woodwards drug store
George arthur rd
 
1965
21 coop butchery
George arthur rd
 
1967
21 coop butchery
23 Tescos
George arthur rd

[Phil]

Mike it's strange that, because it certainly was a long time before 1967. My mother started shopping there a long time before we left Francis St and that street was demolished and gone before 63. Did you check George Arthur Rd?

[mikejee]

I did check heorge arthur rd for the 1956 and 1962 entries. all I can assume is that it came and went between 1956 & 1962

[cocacolakid]

Dennis
 
I came from Nechells which was a distance from Saltley and Alum Rock. I did know Crawford St but the only Cleaver's I knew came from Beechfield Rd Sparkbrook.

Phil..
I just spotted your reference to the cleaver family in Sparkbrook. I knew a cleaver family that lived right on the corner of Tillingham St, Ladypool Rd, and Highgate Rd. They all come to a point. I was friendly with Brian Cleaver, he was at Dennis Rd school with me.  I recall that his father worked at a paint factory. Brian told me his father was involved with the developement of a polychromatic paint finish, we know it these days as "metalic" paint, this was circa 1957. I was wondering if you know if this was the same Cleavers that you Knew in Beechfield Rd which was close to Tillingham St, wondered if they moved?
 
Sorry, this has drifted from the original post. If you have any reply, please put it as a new thread on the General sight under title "The Cleavers."  Cheers Phil.
                                                                                                                                   Malc.

[Daisy1]

I haven't been on the site for a while, so was pleased to see so many people interested in Saltley/Alum Rock, I lived in Reginald Rd and my husband in George Arthur Rd, the grocery shop on the corner of Alum Rock Rd and George Arthur Rd was Bagley's, before it became Tesco's,  we are still in touch with Ernie Bagley who lived there with his mom and dad and sister Cynthia.
My husband and I went to St Saviours school and then I went to Nansen Rd school and my husband (Robert Jenkins) went to Leigh Rd.


Daisy1 (Rita)