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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Warwickshire => Topic started by: killys on Saturday 12 November 11 18:08 GMT (UK)
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could any tell me were i could possible get some photos
of little green lane small heath,i spent the first 16 years of my life there.
or is there any one on line who lived in little green lane 1944-1960.
i have tried to get photos with no luck i have a photo of the school but that is all.
keith.
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could any tell me were i could possible get some photos
of little green lane small heath,i spent the first 16 years of my life there.
or is there any one on line who lived in little green lane 1944-1960.
i have tried to get photos with no luck i have a photo of the school but that is all.
keith.
Hello Keith.
Try ''A history of places and place names,Small Heath,Birmingham.''
Many years ago,Little Green Lane was a Grammar school,my father was a pupil there.
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Hi derek thanks for your reply about little green lane photos
i will try what you said but i thinking if you have got the little green lane gramer school
mixed up as i have never heard of it being a grammer school.
i went there my self and my brother and sister from 1949-1960.
keith.
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Hi derek thanks for your reply about little green lane photos
i will try what you said but i thinking if you have got the little green lane gramer school
mixed up as i have never heard of it being a grammer school.
i went there my self and my brother and sister from 1949-1960.
keith.
Hello Keith.
It was a grammar school before your time Keith. :)
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hi derek.
well that is really interesting what years were they when your dad
was there and did he live local to the school we had a visit to the old school
last year it was organised by the small heath circle good memories.
keith.
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hi derek.
well that is really interesting what years were they when your dad
was there and did he live local to the school we had a visit to the old school
last year it was organised by the small heath circle good memories.
keith.
Hello Keith.
It would have been circa 1920s...he lived in Hawk Street then Botha Road. :)
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http://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-s/small-heath/
sylvia
http://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=5755.0
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oops ::) :-[
http://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-s/small-heath/
sylvia
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/School.page/Little_Green_Lane_School/15880/Details
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Hi There
My name is Barry Bayliss I also spent my youth in little green la. and went to little green lane infant school and then onto st Andrews sec modern I would think I know you if u lived round there where abouts did u live? I used to belong to the swimming club at the baths and spent many a happy hour playing round the library,a lot of my time was spent outside the cricketers arms generally being a pain in the arse waiting for mom and dad or just dad after she left happy days give me a tug if you want to chat about old times its good to se little green lane is still remembered by some,hope to hear from you soon keep safe
regards
Barry
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Hi. I was at Little Green Lane, left Birmingham at age 10 in 1961 cos my Dad's factory, Clearhooters, transferred him to Nuneaton. My name was Carol Suett (I know!!!). I have photos somewhere, I will look them out. I know there was a little boy in one of them called Kevin! Wondering if it could be someone on this site? We had our photo took washing our hands?
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Hi Cazsahaw
that would be great as my brother and sister were born
around that time if could put the photos on site for me and
other people that use the site would be nice to look at.
Keith.
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Hi There
My name is Barry Bayliss I also spent my youth in little green la. and went to little green lane infant school and then onto st Andrews sec modern I would think I know you if u lived round there where abouts did u live? I used to belong to the swimming club at the baths and spent many a happy hour playing round the library,a lot of my time was spent outside the cricketers arms generally being a pain in the arse waiting for mom and dad or just dad after she left happy days give me a tug if you want to chat about old times its good to se little green lane is still remembered by some,hope to hear from you soon keep safe
regards
Barry
Hi Barry....I may be wrong but your name seems to ring a bell...I was born in the back to back houses in Perseverence Place..Little Green Lane in 1946.....went to Little Green Lane infants...we left Small Heath when I was about 7 or 8 so was in Small Heath from 1946 until 1953/4.....Miss Rowley was one of the teachers at school if I remember rightly....Regards....John
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Hello My father had a butchers shop on little green lane. his name was Tom Sankey. I was the delivery boy some 50 years ago now. nice to hat with anyone that has memories. cheers
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Hi, i do remember your dads butchers shop we lived in backhouse opposite dads shop 1956
just couple doors away was a sweet shop the owner was oliver eves when it was quiet he was
always in your dads shop chatting most people in and around little green lane used that butchers
i do remember when your dad told me about the munich air crash on that day in 1957
i left the lane in 1961 have been down it lots of times remembering how it was .
first girlfriend, first job, saving cars when blues were at home great memories.
Keith.
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Hi Keith yes your right.I remember Oliver he had a flash zephyr zodiac. It was a very close community. My parents ran a Sunday school for a couple of years at LGL school. We had loads of kids come. The memories are great, I grew up there very quickly. Very proud that my father and family were part of it.I know my father loved the people and was gutted when he had to close up..in fact he was never the same after moving.good luck to you and yours for 2017 health and happiness. Roger
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Hello Roger. I think you will remember me. I livid in Wyndcliff Rd with my brother and 5 sisters. I was a friend of yours and you brother Keith. I worked in your Das butchers shop and Keith's fruit and veg shop from time to time. Your Dad always paid me with a pork chop and a tin of beans. I remember the chocolate shop and the closed down pub owned by the Downie's. Happy days.
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hi Peter.So good to hear from you.Of course I remember you and your lovely family. especially your dog called sooty, I think, and every time you said flies she would launch into the air.Didnt you live at 21. Well all my family have passed now the latest was Keith with cancer. I don't think he suffered long as he died on the operating table and I spoke to him a couple of days before. I live in New Zealand now, my final settling place LOL feel free to e mail me should you wish to monty16@xtra.co.nz Good health and happiness Peter. kind regards Roger
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Hello All
Here are some photos of Green Land and little Green Lane. I Live quite away from Small Heath but I plan to visit my sister next month so I will pop down to that area and take a few photos. I think you will be in for a shock because so much has changed .
P
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I don't know if anyone is still following this page, but I'm wondering if anyone knows whereabouts 66 Little Green Lane would have been before the area was industrialised please? My wife's family lived there around 1891-1911 at least, quite possibly longer.
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Hi
Hi i was born little green lane 1944 at number 90 my gran lived just down the road in 1930 at
66 would possible be opposite my grans opposite was the cricketers arms which is still there now
also along there was wimbush bread factory but 1911 dont know what was there then .
Keith
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for that information. The Cricketers Arms was number 48 I think, which would mean that 66 was on the same side of Little Green Lane. Is that right?
If your Gran lived in 66 in 1930, maybe you are related to my wife? Her relatives who were there 1911, and I think still there after that were Richard & Ellen Asbury, with about half a dozen daughters and a son who died in the war. Do those names ring a bell?
Whereabouts was number 90? Which street was it nearest to?
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Hi Eric
Meant to say my gran lived at 55 little green lane not 66 that would be opposite 66 number 90
were i lived was just up the road passed three back to back entries was 90 over the road from my
back to back house was millward street and farther up was wyndcliff road then up again was eversley road then little green lane infant and junior school were i went happy days for me little green lane
left there 1960 was told houses were knocked down 1970.
Keith.
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No numbers showing, unfortunately:
https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/409361/286173/13/100356
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Thanks both of you for that information. It seems families were crammed into small spaces back then.
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A long shot. Does anyone have any info on prewar Little Green Lane?
My wife's grandfather, Daniel Booth, owned a large house which is reported to have stood next to the Cricketers Arms. It had a courtyard entered through a central arch and the yard contained stables. My mother in law would tell stories of Daniel, who died in 1940, allowing a circus family to house elephants in the stables from time to time. I would imagine their arrival would have caused quite a stir, especially among the local kids. Does anyone have any memories of this or have heard tales of it?
Keith
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Daniel Booth was listed as living at 54 Little Green Lane and was at Wimbush's bakery, also of Little Green Lane, at death. Age 59.
Age on 1939 disagrees with that age at death.
Address does not look like a central arch big building, a terrace?
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Thanks Chempat,
I'm aware of the 54 address. After Daniel's death the house was split into two and occupied by two of his daughters and their respective families. My wife remembers it as such, though without the stables. Daniel died during a wartime bombing raid, hence the reference to Wimbush's, on whose roof his head, the only part of him ever found, was discovered. We assume the stables were destroyed at the same time.
I hadn't realised there was a discrepancy over his age. My wife has his birth cert, which I can check.
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I can see no error in Daniel's recorded ages. The birth date recorded on the 1939 Register is correct, 17 Feb 1888 and he died, aged 52, on 19 Nov 1940, as confirmed by the National Probate Calendar.
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Hi Keitht
I was the one who started this thread with coronation 1953 I was 9 and as i said i definetly remember
mrs booth running it my gran lived opposite at 1/55 shenton the entrance was up the side of the cricketers arms and at the front was big double wooden gates i can imagine it was big at the back
and you could call it a arched front my school mates lived the next terrace house down the davis family and m mate the moores i can picture in my head from top to bottom of little green lane born there and went to school first girl friend lived there happy memories Keith.
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for your thoughts.
Marilyn confirms your description of the property though having taken a second look at the 1939 Register I see that Daniel's brother was living at 52 at the time so maybe what she took to have once been one large house was always two. She was most interested to learn that a member of the family was involved in the 1953 coronation celebrations. She was only four at the time and has little or no memory of it.
Thanks again,
Keith
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I can see no error in Daniel's recorded ages. The birth date recorded on the 1939 Register is correct, 17 Feb 1888 and he died, aged 52, on 19 Nov 1940, as confirmed by the National Probate Calendar.
freebmd has his death in 1940 as age 59
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Thanks Chempat but it's obvious that that is mathematically impossible.
Keith. from Marilyn's description of the internal architecture it's clear that Nos 52 and 54 were originally a single dwelling which must have been divided well before the war.
Happy Christmas to you both,
Keith
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Hi Keitht
Yes i think she is right probably two house as far as i can remember up till i was 15 was a big
space there the cricketers arms still there i used to go for drink before blues match.
merry xmas all Keith.
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Hi Barry, Your name rings a bell. I am sure my Dad mentions you when we talk about Little Green Lane. His name is Dan Jackson. My Mum lived in LGN her name was Linda Garrett (now Jackson).