OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

Hi

 I am trying to find any info on Lyng Lane west brom as my Great Grandparents lived there in1914 to1930 onwards .

I really can't find any thing of use about it.

Can any one HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many Thanks Nancy

Hi Nancy

When I started work at New Street Station I used to walk up Lyng Lane every morning to catch the train from West Brom to Birmingham Snow Hill.  I lived in Lyttleton Street and Lyng Lane stretched from Paradise Street to Sams Lane.  I've been down there recently and I thought it was awful.  There was once a Methodist Church half way up Lyng Lane but it's no longer there.  Quite a few pupils from Lyng School (when it was in Sams Lane) lived in Lyng Lane. Do you know anything else?  I wasn't born until 1941 so I'm not sure I would know anything about them.

Pat

Hi Pat

I really don't know much else ,i have tried finding a picture of lyng in their era but to  no avail.

My grandmother lived there before getting married from there in 1921.Iv'e got them in the 1911 census,so i think they would of stayed there.

I know they all worked in the iron works as bolt forgers etc.

You say you lived on Lyttleton st what number as I think I may have had family from 49 Littleton st are they the same

? they were called Martins

Nancy

I attended Lyng Junior school in the late 50s - early 60s.  Used to walk up Lyng Lane to visit the railway Goods Yard sometimes if I went train spotting.  I'm sure there wasa shop near the top where you could buy 'Mojos' and 'Black Jacks' 4 for a penny.

Hi Stephen

Was Lyng School in Sams Lane then or had it moved to its new site by Albert Street/Horton street?

Pat,

It was still in Sams Lane then.  Mr Dodd was the Head.

Hi Nancy

I lived at number 62 Lyttleton.  Do you know anything about the Martins as the name rings a bell but I can't place where no. 49 might have been. I do have a group picture of children taken at the Coronation but it's a newspaper cutting not really suitable for posting.

There are quite a few children on this photo who were all from the one end of Lyttleton street. Could be a relative of yours on it!

Pat 

Hi Pat

My family members at littleton st  were George and Kate Martin they seemed to have had quite alot of children,i don't know if they all lived there? I know alot died  about 7?.

Nancy

Nancy at February 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM

Hi

 I am trying to find any info on Lyng Lane west brom as my Great Grandparents lived there in1914 to1930 onwards .

I really can't find any thing of use about it.

Can any one HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many Thanks Nancy

I was born in 1954 and lived on Lyng Lane till 1960. We lived over the road from a works (dont know name) and were the middle of 3 terraced houses. My best friend Paul lived at the fire station at the top of Lyng Lane where his dad was a fireman.The house on the corner (ie. next door to us) was also a small shop run by Mrs Bytheway. We had a shared yard and outside toilet shared by the 3 families. There was a piece of wasteland next to our houses where Mr Bytheway used to dig for worms for his fishing. Dad kept his Austin 7 car on the wasteland (it was an old car even then) On Sunday all the kids would go to Sunday School mostly to collect the stamps to go in your book. The houses were compulsorily purchased in 1960 and demolished for maisonettes. We moved to Elford Rd in Stone Cross. I went to Spon Lane infants School. My dad was born nearby in Morris St and my Nan/Grandad lived at 25 Gill St. Grandads pub was the Windsor Castle - where he spent most of the time! I remember my mom trying to get the pushchair from Lyng Lane to Gill St at night in either 1959 or 1960 when it was deep in snow at Christmas. People sold lanterns on the street. It was magical. On Saturdays my Dad would often take me to Snow Hill station on the steam train from the station at the top of the Lyng. 

Stephen Williams at February 20, 2010 at 8:39 AM

I attended Lyng Junior school in the late 50s - early 60s.  Used to walk up Lyng Lane to visit the railway Goods Yard sometimes if I went train spotting.  I'm sure there wasa shop near the top where you could buy 'Mojos' and 'Black Jacks' 4 for a penny.

We must have been classmates then . Read my posting.

Stephen Williams at February 20, 2010 at 8:39 AM

I attended Lyng Junior school in the late 50s - early 60s.  Used to walk up Lyng Lane to visit the railway Goods Yard sometimes if I went train spotting.  I'm sure there wasa shop near the top where you could buy 'Mojos' and 'Black Jacks' 4 for a penny.

The shop where you bought your sweets was probably Mrs Bytheways shop. I lived next door to them. It was a shop in what was really the front room and was quite small. They sold all sorts. My favourites were "Lucky Numbers" and she sold broken biscuits from a stack of metal tins with glass fronts. 

Hi Chris,

You would have been three years behind me at Lyng as I was born in 1951.  My teachers were Mrs. Wild, Mrs. White (I am sure she got married whilst I was there but can't recall her maiden name), Miss Richards and Mrs. Phelps.  The music teacher was Mr Tinkler (very appropriate), I remember when he bought a new pale blue Ford Anglia with 3 gears. There was also a Mr Griffiths and a Mrs Miller that took the remedial form.

Steve