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Unless somebody took an LMS loco and placed it on a GWR line it has to be Winson Green, not Benson Road. Equally so for anyone who was around in those days they would instantly realise the train is inbound to New Street. The background is Winson Green Road with Heath Street a little way of to the left (obvioulsly not in the photograph) and, if you came out of the station up the stairs/tunnel shown on the photo and turned right you finish up going towards the "nick" and the "Green" itself.               Patrick Limacher        Email: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>p.limacher@ntlworld.com</U></FONT></div> <div>   </div> <bR> <div> 20/05/04</div> <div> 100% Winson Green Road Ex LMS - The station closed in 1957 but the line is still very busy. </div> <div> The Ex GWR station was'Soho & Winson Green' on Benson </div> <div> Road; closed in 1972. This line reopened in the 1990s being </div> <div> used by Central Trains & the Metrolink.</div> <div> Ray Norton <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" >Email: </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>ray@norton1781.fsnet.co.uk</U></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> **************************************************</div> <bR> <div> 27/03/04</div> <div> re:The mystery identity of the station (Winson Green or Benson Road). Am I being unduly simplistic here? Surely the fact that the photo in question includes the nameboard for the station actually in shot on the platform clearly indicates that the station is indeed Winson Green? <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Mike Doyle</FONT> Email: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>miked@supanet.com</U></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> *******************************************************</div> <div> 20/03/04</div> <div> "I lived in Victor Rd and was a keen train spotter (in the pre-diesel days). We were lucky as we seemed to be surrounded by railways of all descriptions. </div> <div> The station in the photo is on Winson Green Rd - I am absolutely certain of it<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" >,</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" > being a frequent visitor to both it and Benson Rd. A huge clue is in the engine and number plate. The jubilee class engine was part of the LMS stock. Winson Green station was LMS only and Benson Rd was exclusively GWR in those days. "</FONT></div> <div> All the best   Keith Devaney  E:mail <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><U>Keith.Devaney@amersham.com</U></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> *****************************************************</div> <div> 15/02/04</div> <div> I lived in Benson Rd 1961-1973opposite the railway station that is definately the railway station on Benson Rd . Me and my bros used to dare each other to run along the the bridge without getting caught the houses to the right of the picture is where we lived the third one along, my bedroom was the 'attic' I used to watch the trains from the skylight and play in the yard, I went to Benson Rd School and then to Handsworth New Rd Girls School. I am so glad I found this site tears poured as I read through the pages. I also remember the air show at Summerfield Park my dad took us for the day out will get photos of mother to send to you I will go to Benson Rd railway station and take a photo to compare keep up the good work  </div> <div> Christel Haddon (Prokowski)  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Email: </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>chrisken@haddon.fsnet.co.uk</U></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> **********************************************</div> <div> The photo is actually the station in Winson Green Road, not the one in Benson Road. Look through to the other side of the road bridge -- its far too open to be Benson Road, where the tracks were in a really deep</div> <div> brick-wall lined cutting. If it was the Benson Rd station we'd be able to see the Bacchus Rd bridge.</div> <bR> <div> I think I was in Bobby Barnett's class at Benson Road School and I remember quite clearly the incident where he jumped out of the train because it didn't stop at Soho & Winson Green station.</div> <bR> <div> Lower down the same page, I also notice the photo of the Talbot Inn in Talbot Street. My mother and her parents and her brother and sister lived at the Talbot from 1914 to 1920. Mom's father was Ernest Arthur</div> <div> Neale and he was the licensee of the pub. Arthur's wife (my Nan) was Frances (known as Fanny) and she was originally from the Isle of Man.</div> <div> Mom was Mona Neale (later Mona Ball) and her siblings were Kathleen and Wilfrid. In 1920, the Neale family moved to Markby Road, which is where I was born (at number 30) in 1940.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >All the best </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >John  Ball  </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >E-mail: </FONT><U>wfha@clara.co</U>     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >web site </FONT><U>http://home.clara.net/wfha/</U>   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >06/11/03</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ********************************************************</div> <div> I am certain that the picture of the railway station at the top of the photographs page is Winson Green, not Benson Road. </div> <div> Benson Road was, I think, called <B>"Soho & Winson Green"</B>, also; the lie of the land with a high brick wall at the back makes me think of <B>Winson Green Road </B>with the station backing on to <B>Aberdeen Street</B></div> <div>    <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Phil Edwards </FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Email: </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>philje@myself.com</U></FONT>  29/11/03</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ****************************************************</div> <div> The railway station pictured is without doubt the <B>Benson Rd </B>one and the train is heading for Snow Hill. If you look at the houses/shops in the background they are on the brow of the hill descending to Benson Rd school and <B>Park Rd / Factory Rd</B> junction. My uncle George was tragically killed here on 23/12/1958 on a foggy morning when he crossed the lines instead of using the footbridge and was hit by one of the new fangled diesel trains which witnesses claim he wouldn't have heard coming in the thick fog.</div> <div> That was a devastating Christmas as he and my aunt lived next door to us in <B>Markby Rd,</B> he was a smashing bloke and as my aunt had gone to work the police knocked on our door at 09;00 and just told my mom not knowing that she was his sister, a Christmas best forgotten and none of us ever used the station from that day on, even crossing the road bridge made me shudder.</div> <div> The irony of the story being that the day started happily for my uncle as that was the day of his works Christmas party, he had a knife, fork and spoon in his pocket for this purpose and though he normally commuted on his motorbike and sidecar that day he decided to use the train as he would be having a drink, thus his unfamiliarity with the station and being on the wrong platform just before the arrival of his train.</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Pete Ellis</FONT>    Email: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>p4ellis@blueyonder.co.uk</U>     </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >22/11/03 </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ***********************************</div> <div> Another incident that happened at that station around 1949 involved a pupil in our class at Benson Road School ( Bobby Barnet who lived in Park Road). Traveling back from Snow Hill he realized the train was not going to stop at this station and  jumped from the train. The door from Yeomans the butchers opposite was lifted from its hinges and used as a stretcher to bring the badly injured boy to the front of the station to await the ambulance. We never saw Bobby for over six months until one day he appeared back at school. </div> <div> Ted Rudge <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >22/11/03</FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ***************************************<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Rosemary recollects another tragedy involving pupils from Benson Road School and a fatal train derailment. The full story can be found on the Streets pages under <B>Lee Street</B>.</div> <div> also see<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B><U>Waverton and beyond </U></B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>on the Schools page</I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Does anyone else remember these incidents??????<B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>*****************************************************************************************************************************************************</I></div> <div> <I>NEW PHOTOGRAPHS taken </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >December 2002 </FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="17f6e260.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="294" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="18265270.jpg" border=0 width="357" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Lodge Road</B> taken from the corner of <U>Talbot Street </U> </div> <div> note part of the wall gone and new houses built on the grounds of All Saints Hospital </div> <div> <IMG SRC="18170160.jpg" border=0 width="368" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Devonshire Arms  Lodge Road (still there)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1846e170.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="17c6a1b0.jpg" border=0 width="362" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>                <B>Lodge Road</B> from <U>Lees Street</U>      <B><U>The wall gone forever  </U></B><B>   </B>Lodge Road from <U>Kent Street North</U></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="18664f90.jpg" border=0 width="356" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "The Talbot" still there in <U>Talbot Street</U> (and the gulley)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="18a6d160.jpg" border=0 width="365" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1896e160.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <bR> <div> The other end of the gulley [now blocked off at the top} and the Recreation Ground (The Rec.) </div> <div> <B>Its now officially a PARK you can enter the park from both Musgrave Road and Talbot Street</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="18762210.jpg" border=0 width="354" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The bridge <B>Musgrave Road</B> taken from the corner of <B>Devonshire Avenue</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>**********************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="21c78fa0.jpg" border=0 width="376" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="21972fa0.jpg" border=0 width="370" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>**********************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1e5c2290.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>THE 11th SOUTH STAFFS BAND</B></div> <div> <B>Do you know any of the names they were all from Winson Green / Smethwick 1914 /18?</B></div> <div> <B>From Tony Warrington</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*********************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>BACCHUS ROAD</B></div> <div> <B>PUBLIC WASHING BATHS</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2bfbc220.jpg" border=0 width="444" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>***********************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>BENSON ROAD 1964</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1a45ee60.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Anita Gregory 9th birthday with cake, Girl holding hand ?</div> <div>   Mandy Sadler (girl check frock), Maxine and Julia in front,  Boy is David Gilbert. </div> <div> Can anyone from Benson Road name the little girl on the right please.</div> <div> ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************<B>*</B></div> <div> <B>DUDLEY ROAD</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24588ff0.jpg" border=0 width="392" height="255" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Dudley Road   </B></FONT><B>Winson Green</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Wednesday 12 April 1939. </B></div> <div> <B> ahead is </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Brookfields </B></FONT><B>then Town.</B></div> <div> <B>The road to the right is Icknield Port Road (Rotton Park) leading towards Ladywood.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="44df4280.png" border=0 width="500" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Dudley Road</B> between <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Northbrook Street and Icknield Port Road</FONT> both sides of the road in August 1999.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Thanks to MacJoseph  10/05/04</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="450f4350.png" border=0 width="500" height="309" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1af5efe0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="254" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>DUDLEY ROAD </B>(picture house)</div> <div> Opened 1912</div> <div> Closed 1932</div> <div> When the Grove cinema opened.</div> <div> (Note Hawley's dance studio)</div> <div> <B>Photograph supplied by Anita Cunniffe(Gregory) </B>21/01/03</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> *******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> EVA ROAD <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > DAIRY</FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1bf15900.jpg" border=0 width="277" height="400" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> 76 Eva Road around 1890-1900 the lady on the left was my </div> <div> grandmother who owned the dairy shop as it was then ,she sold the </div> <div> shop to Lottie Groves around 1930 she retired when decimal currency started. </div> <bR> <div> Photograph from Tony Warrington</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> **********************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a6ae180.jpg" border=0 width="430" height="280" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>POST CARD </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>supplied by Mc Joseph</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> *****************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> JAMES TURNER STREET</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="202fe900.jpg" border=0 width="254" height="400" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Tonys mom standing outside 52 James Turner St in 1916. where the </div> <bR> <div> family lived before moving to 76 Eva Road. She was the sixteenth in the </div> <bR> <div> Haywood family.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Photograph from Tony Warrington</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> <B>VITTORIA STREET</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="16a5c3b0.jpg" border=0 width="604" height="315" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>1953 Coronation day in Vittoria Street</B></div> <div> <B>From Eileen Daniels (nee Horton) 18/10/02</B></div> <bR> <div> ********************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12feb6c0.jpg" border=0 width="491" height="364" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>  Wellington Street</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Street party for the</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><B>Silver Jubilee of George V 1935 (I think) ---Paul Holmes </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>04/06/02.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> *******************************************************************************************************************************<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >                                      </FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="108e7290.png" border=0 width="487" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >On the left there is a space then the side of a building is painted white. At this point stood a picture house we used to call it </FONT>"<B>The Green</B>"<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  the posh name was the"</FONT><B>Winson Green Picture Palace".</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1a1366c0.jpg" border=0 width="310" height="364" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> This is what it used to look like</div> <div> Thanks to<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Anita</B></FONT><B> </B>Cunniffe nee <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Gregory </B></FONT></div> <div> who used to live in Benson Road we now have </div> <div> an image of the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>"Winson Green Picture Palace"</B></FONT></div> <div> Anita also told us it opened in 1914</div> <div> seated 1400 people</div> <div> Closed on Saturday 21st March 1959</div> <div> Last films shown were</div> <div> "Sea of Sand"and "Suspended Alibi"</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <div>                                                                                        </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="12412080.jpg" border=0 width="530" height="264" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>FOUNDRY ROAD </B>Junction with <B>WINSON GREEN ROAD</B> with <B>LODGE ROAD</B> on right.</div> <div> Photograph from Alan Dolman (Dolmans  Garage)</div> <div> *******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0c6e33a0.jpg" border=0 width="483" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Park Road cross- roads with Factory Road and Benson Road</B></div> <div> <B>Soho Taven on left Wrensons Shop on right</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks to Roger Dennelly for naming the pub.22/04/02 </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> **********************************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0cc5e0c0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="268" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="2b5740c0.jpg" border=0 width="372" height="268" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>"THE RAILWAY"  (Pub)  Park Road  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Ladies from the Railway pub, corner of Park Road and Norton Street, on a trip to Southend taken 21 September 1963. My mom, Violet Bird, is at the back with a fag in her mouth. Sorry don't know any of the other ladies, perhaps the people in internet land can help! </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Keith Bird 04/07/03</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> *******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="07ee71f0.jpg" border=0 width="487" height="287" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>All Saints Hospital Lodge Road</B> .</div> <div> *******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0cfd5f90.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Lodge Road </B></div> <div> <B>Harmer Street left.                British Oxygen Company far right. Where did the LION go??.</B></div> <div> <B>****************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="080145a0.jpg" border=0 width="532" height="346" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The long original wall of All Saints Hospital dominates one side of Lodge Road.</B></div> <div> <B>Photograph taken in 1998 shows the replacement housing with houses and streets only on the right. </B></div> <div> ****************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> <B>LODGE ROAD   </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >06/08/03</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2d3d8de0.jpg" border=0 width="472" height="222" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> On the bridge between </div> <div> All Saints Road and Paxton Road </div> <div> Year 1900??</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Any one know what this procession was about??</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Another Mac Joseph  Photo</div> <bR> <div> ******************************************************************************************************************************</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="082ea2b0.jpg" border=0 width="490" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>H.M.Prison Winson Green viewed from Villiers Street 1960's</B></div> <div> <B>*************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="10daa240.jpg" border=0 width="426" height="292" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Mr Walter Edwin Heath</B> his wife <B>Esther Annie </B>(nee Pickard)  boy on the left <B>Henry Heath</B> girl on right <B>Jessie Heath</B> the main frontage is in <B>Ford Street </B>and the house is in <B>Park Road</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >(early 1900s) </FONT>the big lamp above the door came from the Birmingham children's hospital. Mr Heath studied at Kidderminster hospital before starting up as a chemist his wife is one of the family of Pickards tailors out of Great Hampton Row </div> <div> <B>Thanks to John Houghton for the information and photograph </B>24/04/02</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3f6aafb0.jpg" border=0 width="426" height="251" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Park Road end </B><B>of "the Flat" </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Corner  </B></div> <div> <B>Lodge Road and Ford Street </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Same location as above taken</B></div> <div> <B>2nd February  2004</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="29c5eeb0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="235" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>"The Flat 2000"</B></div> <div> <B>Looking towards Park Road</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>***************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>LODGE ROAD  (the flat)</B></div> <div> <B>                            </B>1950s                                                            1990s (<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >supplied by Stan Hussey)</FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2982cd10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="209" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="2973dd20.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>"The Flat" Lodge Road  at the cross roads with Icknield Street and Key Hill</B></div> <div> <B>******************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2992cd60.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="29a7fd20.jpg" border=0 width="383" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> <B>NORTONS STORE Key Hill viewed from "The Flat"</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>One corner of "The Flat" viewed from Icknield Street.</B></div> <div> <B>*</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>*****************************************************************************************************************************</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1b75efa0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="29b51fa0.jpg" border=0 width="337" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>"The Flat"  Lodge Road 1954  </B>(supplied by MacJoseph)</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3d35e020.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="258" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>"The Flat"  Lodge Road 1961  </B>(supplied by MacJoseph)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="838" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 213 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3fa5ecf0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="207" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3fc7dce0.jpg" border=0 width="381" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 213 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3fe73cf0.jpg" border=0 width="371" height="207" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> The Flat 02/02/04</div> <div> Note houses now built </div> <div> on the corner of </div> <div> [Little] PARK ROAD</div> <bR> <div> Photographs supplied by Mac Joseph 03/02/04</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>*************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="29e43c80.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                   <IMG SRC="2a024c80.jpg" border=0 width="292" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Building of HOCKLEY FLYOVER 1991 </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>supplied by Stan Hussey</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="94bc2f90.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>   <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Construction of the Hockley flyover </FONT></div> <div> Dated 6 september 1967</div> <bR> <div> <B>photo supplied by</B> Alan Elliott</div> <bR> <div> <B>************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="39bc2df0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="223" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 31/12/03</div> <bR> <div> From just over the boundary in Hockley a business card</div> <bR> <div> Note the address 174½</div> <bR> <div> Thanks to Mac Joseph for sending it to us.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>*************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d61f2b0.jpg" border=0 width="287" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Kirby Road and Bacchus Road sign over shop "A.D.Wimbush"</B></div> <div> <B>******************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d75e090.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="265" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>"Congregational Church" 1973 formaly known as the "The Institute"</B></div> <div> <B>Front </B><B>of the Church i</B><B>n Lodge Road with one side  in Lees Street.</B></div> <div> <B>********************************************************************************************************************************</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0e333b40.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="436" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>Page 36 Carl Chinn's Brummagem Magazine</B></div> <div> <B>These are Mrs F Asprey's grandparents Mr and Mrs Bennett who ran a pub in Lodge Road Winson Green almost opposite the gates of All Saints Hospital. </B></div> <div> <B>Reproduced by kind permission of Carl Chinn.</B></div> <div> <B>****************************************************************************************************************************</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <DIV 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