Hi everyone, I too was born and lived in the Warstock area. There weren't any shops next to the Warstock pub. The pub itself was on the crossroads of Prince of Wales Lane and Yardley Wood Road. Across the road and a small island, was a row of shops, there was a sweet and tobacco shop owned by Arthur Currier and his partner (cannot remember the man's name). Arthur's wife was named Jean. Next to that shop was a beautiful cake and bread shop called Trevors. Next door was the butchers - Norman Avery. There was also a greengrocers. Just the 4 shops. Opposite the pub on the other corner were a row of prefabs. If you walked up Prince of Wales Lane towards Maypole Lane, you came to a row of shops on the right hand side. About 7 shops in total - Hills the shoe shop, Goughs the sweet shop, a TV and radio shop, a haberdashery run by a lovely old lady. Further on, was the Co-op and the Manager was a Mr Lewis. Sometimes we had groceries delivered to our home by a young lad on a bike. The Co-op fascinated me, the bacon counter, the smells of the shop, money was handed over for the items purchased and put into a canister and then placed into the chute which sent it up and across the ceiling of the shop into the paybox opposite the counter. Fascinating. Further on were more shops which included the post office. Who else remembers the pig farm almost next door to the Warstock Pub - along Yardley Wood Road? There were open fields at the back of Loxley Avenue and you could walk through them to get to the top end of Prince of Wales Lane and the Co-op. Great fields for all us children to play in. There was also a football club that would have matches on a Sunday. Happy days. If you walked past the Warstock Pub down towards Christ Church, there was a row of cottages - maybe 6 in total. At the end of the cottages was a small hut and you could get your shoes repaired there by Mr Hands. Further on were 4 little shops including the bookies.