OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

Many thanks to Barbara for the new photos added onto the Home page, some great memories for all of us on there I am sure !

Also an Albion season ticket from the very last season the Baggies were at Stoney Lane has been added onto the "WEST BROMWICH DOCUMENTS" page

Paul

OMG that reynolds photo, I remember going past that on the number 11 and Bagnalls is another great memory

Where was the coal merchants in Old Meeting St, I am sure it was by reynolds, I may be wrong ?

Re the John Reynolds photo,

                                                       Something does not seem right,   This is  more like a side veiw of the building from were the allotments used to be . I think you can just see part of Old Meeting st in the bottom right corner  but the new addition and trees in the centre dont make sense as the building sat on the corner of Tildasley st and ran up the street even behind the houses. The photo seems to have been taken when all the Carters Green mods were taking place ?

                              regards john mason

Bagnalls  shop at the top of Bull st I used to go in just to look at the old black motorbike the fellow kept in the shop

isn,t that the building that once housed "hall and rice"?,dring the war i learnt to dance at Silks dancing school,about 100 yards from there..

let me correct the photograph of the crown nailworks refered to as john Reynolds. this is the factory of HALL & RICE the Reynolds company was purchased as a bankrupt concern from birmingham by Mr. Hall and incorporated into HALL & RICE. HALL & RICE was started by Mr Fred Hall  Jim Nelson Snr and W. Gill and then controlled by Mr. Fred Duncan Hall and as the grandson of Jim Nelson snr and the son of Jim Nelson who was works manager after the death of his father I resent the constant referral to John Reynolds as the important name in the history of nail making in west Bromwich

             Having lived in Tildasley St from 1938  to 1965  and travelled back on a regular basis since Ive never heard the Hall And Rice building referred to  as Reynolds and cant recall ever seeing the name on it.   [ thats not to say it wasnt, memory plays tricks on you somtimes ], 

                I  knew Mikes dad by association he used to send us off for using the canteen roller shutters  to chalk our cricket wickets on. they were also ideal as a goals.

               I was sad when the old building cme down as the side entrance in our street  was wooden and had all our initials carved on it including hearts and arrows,

               Am I alone in thinking all the kids I knew  have all seemed to  vanish despite all efforts to trace them I appear to be almost the only one left.

     Oh to be a kid again climbing on the nail works roof to get the ball back,  Sneaking into the yard at the rear of the works and exploring yhe old air raid shelter there Mikes dad would have thrown a wobbly if he had  known,

                 MEMORIES THEY KEEP US YOUNG,

               redards   john mason

I am sure I read somewhere that at the end of the day they used to keep the Towns trams it that building (Hall's/Reynolds)

There was a coal merchants where the Bantocks now is, I remember falling down one very icy morning right outside and the bloke in the weighbridge laughed his socks off. The picture of Hall and Rice was taken as they were about to knock it down it was approx where Staples is now and i seem to recall where the flowerbeds are was Don Everalls and the old toilets? before the new roundabout.

I had to take the picture as I had admired the sign writing for a long time.

I used to go to the old clinic on Hill Top for Physio in the early nineties I had to queue up outside with all the mothers waiting for the free milk. The rooms in there had the most wonderful ceilings.

Hodgetts and Bowes did my wedding invitations in 1975 so had to take a photo of them.

barbara at September 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM

There was a coal merchants where the Bantocks now is, I remember falling down one very icy morning right outside and the bloke in the weighbridge laughed his socks off. The picture of Hall and Rice was taken as they were about to knock it down it was approx where Staples is now and i seem to recall where the flowerbeds are was Don Everalls and the old toilets? before the new roundabout.

I had to take the picture as I had admired the sign writing for a long time.

I used to go to the old clinic on Hill Top for Physio in the early nineties I had to queue up outside with all the mothers waiting for the free milk. The rooms in there had the most wonderful ceilings.

Hodgetts and Bowes did my wedding invitations in 1975 so had to take a photo of them.

LCP Coal yard, my first serious girlfriends Dad worked there in the Seventies

He was also a Bouncer at the Gala Baths Saturday Nights

The photograph from the 1945 party contains some interesting faces, can anyone spot the ex MP now raised to the peerage who appears on the photograph with his twin sister, they used to live in hargate lane and went to chronehills school

MikeN at October 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM

The photograph from the 1945 party contains some interesting faces, can anyone spot the ex MP now raised to the peerage who appears on the photograph with his twin sister, they used to live in hargate lane and went to chronehills school

You know I have been looking at that photo and there is a lad on there who looks really familar, he has the look of an MP from years ago, his first name was Robin and I can't for the life of me remember his Surname ?

He is towards the back, left of middle, if you look at the lad right in the middle of the Union Jack then look at the one in front to the right of him and there is a girl with a good head of dark hair in front of him

Is it him ??

If so put me out of my misery and tell me his surname !!

New Zealand Baggie at October 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM

MikeN at October 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM

The photograph from the 1945 party contains some interesting faces, can anyone spot the ex MP now raised to the peerage who appears on the photograph with his twin sister, they used to live in hargate lane and went to chronehills school

You know I have been looking at that photo and there is a lad on there who looks really familar, he has the look of an MP from years ago, his first name was Robin and I can't for the life of me remember his Surname ?

He is towards the back, left of middle, if you look at the lad right in the middle of the Union Jack then look at the one in front to the right of him and there is a girl with a good head of dark hair in front of him

 

Is it him ??

 

If so put me out of my misery and tell me his surname !!

ten out of ten the boy in the photo is Robin Corbet and his twin sister Judy is the one further along the line with the hat on the side of her head