No photo's of our old house in Smethwick, they knocked it down and built this Doctors surgery. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/...cial-measures/
Our house in Dawes Avenue was like this one,3 bed mid terrace with entry and front door, with a big garden around 150ft long.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-pr...ountry=england
Last edited by soulman101; 07-04-2020 at 08:16 PM.
Leasowe road flats Tipton long gone
Scoop our house on the Birmingham New Road had an outside toilet with no electricity. We had to take a candle in. It was part of a block comprising a outhouse and coal house. I never had the luxury of an inside loo until 1970 but the next house had two indoor, one up one down.
The first house also had an open fire in every room. It wasn't until i was ten in 1965 that we changed to gas.
Every one on our estate was from Smethwick. We went to Corbert st school for 6months ,then the old Lyng and we we the ist to go to the new Lyng. Lovely design,still looks good now, the main hall after the Victorian school. WE then went like most of our estate to Sponlane.
Where you from Scoop ?
My early homes have all long gone, but last year I did find an old picture of the house my grandmother was born in, and grew up in. She would have been 9 when this picture was taken (1905) in 25 Court, Tower Street, Brum -- one of the notorious back-to-back "Courts of Birmingham". It's the house one nearer to the camera than the one with the lady standing in the doorway, the first 2-storey one. My great grandparents and 9 children lived in that house! The courtyard contained the single shared privy and the shared washhouse (for clothes, not people).
Pic taken outside 88 Sandwell Rd., West Bromwich, STAFFORDSHIRE, late 50's, born and bred there from '42 to '66 when I got married and moved to Woodward Street, then moved to Dagger Lane and on to Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno where we've been since 2004.
I loved that jumper I'm wearing, it was black with a bright red 'V'.
My school days were spent at Bratt Street, Christ Church and at 8 I moved to St. Michael's RC school, finished at the Technical College in '58
Last edited by Baggies_Boy_Tony; 08-04-2020 at 09:11 AM.
Hi Tony, one the best places to live is Dagger lane . There was a BT enginner,well it was Post Office Telephones in the old days, who lived in a big bungalow on the same side as the pub. His name was Roger, he was wheelchair bound after breaking his back on a motorbike think it was at the Isle of Man. BT was good to him, kept him on gave him a workshop at the Booth st dept and he wired up some on the switchboards to save doing it on site. Saw his house for sale recently must have passed on.