OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

This is where I think it was, as I remember it

As you come down the High Street from West Brom to The Clock Tower at Carters green it was on your right hand side, directly opposite the clock.

You have a supermarket there (Nissa used to be Fine Fare) and a road the side of it, and then you have a car park with cars for sale, and now a Post Office, I think it was there where it was, along with a newsagent, and I can remember it being called the Civic Restuarant and the TowerRestuarant.

Now, to put the cat amongst the pigeons, my  Mrs swears black & blue it was the other side of where Fine Fare was

Please, for the sake of my sanity tell me I am right !!

Paul

I thought it was where the Post Office is now and the newsagents was next to the Civic ?

All I can remember that i seemed to be opposite the Tower cinema - my Mother in law worked there for a while.

I think it was on the Wednesbury side of Fine Fare and for some reason the colour dark greem came into my mind when I thought of it.  Was the frontage painted in a dark green?

Steve

If you move a little way down "old meeting street {the road to wednesbury} you come to a street on your right withe Pawsons on the corner. Now turn round and start walking back towards the clock tower---- past the sweet shop ------then on your left just proir to the tower is the cvic restaraunt--- there used to be george briscoes  grocery shop-- the news agents--post office--pimms petshop---- ralphs bakery { great pork pies} --firkins {more pork pies}--- violets pantry {bostin trifles}------- till you come to the cross guns at  john street crooss over it to billinghams  the green grocers. I know ive missed some places out  but at 71 years young you cant remember every thing. I lived at tildasley street carters green  for my first 27 years and would love to here from any  old friends.  CHEERS from john mason

P.S. Sorry about the one finger typing error im waiting for a cattaract  eye op . J.E.M.

j.e.m. has placed it's location just right, did it ever have another name?

I can remember being taken there by my Mom when I was about 5 or 6, (about 1952/3) for dinner, she said it was a lot cheaper than other places. I can still taste their chips and baked beans plus they made wonderful rice pudding ...

I think I may have found the other name that the restaurant was called when I was just a 'ickabod' in short trousers with the regulation 'snake belt'  (remember those!)

Looking through one of Terry Prices books "West Bromwich people and places" on page 64 is a photo taken in 1964.

It says it was formerly called the British Restaurant, Can anyone confirm this? 

before the war it was the Territorial Army HQ,DURING THE WAR IT BECAME THE British Restaurant,serving cheap meals2 shillings i think,so that the population could have a cooked meal in wartime,it was almost directly opposite the Tower Cinema,in 1939 i can remember standing outside looking at the Territorials who,d been mobilised.

In Memories of West Bromwich  by Alton Douglas on page 85 is a full view, as it was in 1970,  showing it then as the Clock Tower Restaraunt, almost directly opposite the church at the junction of Dudley st and Old Meeting st at  Carters Green. J.E.M.

Essa at 05:09AM on Jan 27, 2010

I think I may have found the other name that the restaurant was called when I was just a 'ickabod' in short trousers with the regulation 'snake belt'  (remember those!)

Looking through one of Terry Prices books "West Bromwich people and places" on page 64 is a photo taken in 1964.

It says it was formerly called the British Restaurant, Can anyone confirm this? 

in my post isaid i thought the cheap wartime meals cost about 2 shillings ,  my wife laughed,2 bob was a couple of hours pay then..the cost of the dinners was minute,sixpence or less,when i left school in august 1939 my take home pay was 9 shillings and 8 pence a week..about 47 new pence,she got even less,about 42 new pence

I ahave only ever know it as the Civic or Clock Tower Restaraurant and I am sure it used to be a Army Drill Hall before that ?

it was the Territorial Army (Royal Artillery) drill hall up to the outbreak of war,after that it became the British Restaurant..