Bradmore wolverhampton, Gunmakers and Church Road

[Uplands]

Sorry, I meant SITE.

[truebritmega]

ahh ty, so it was the "battery" itself... ty

[giraffe]

Thanks for that link Bob, it's cleared up a childhood mystery as to what my grandfather did in his spare time. He worked as a turbine driver at the Wolverhampton Power station, so I suppose he had some technical knowledge, and helped out both people who still didn't have electricity, and the family budget at the same time!
I suppose you wouldn't have any knowledge of a site describing phonographs would you? I inherited mine from this grandfather.
giraffe

[Uplands]

Further to my picture of Star Street here is a more modern picture of the same place.
Is that the same place I hear you asking yourselves? Believe it or not, YES it is.

[Uplands]

Here also is a picture of the Gunmakers Arms, also mentioned in this thread which I took a few years ago.

[Uplands]

Also Gamsons shop that was.

[truebritmega]

I wish there was a pic of that old field by wenlock avenue my mom mentioned , somewhere, surely someone must have took at least one pic of it? lol
thank you for the pics, I still know the place well, I still live in Bradmore

[Uplands]

It's gone a bit quiet on the Bradmore thread so I will post a picture that I have just come across and never seen before.
The caption says Trysull Rd Bradmore and I would like to hear a few remarks about it , such as where was it taken from?
I reckon it was taken from the other side of the road from a bit lower down than Judson's cycle shop looking towards the Gunmakers Arms, which in those days was on the same side of the road as Judson's.
The tree in the distance would have been at the bottom of Oxbarn Avenue well before the shops were built.

Cheers, Bob.

[truebritmega]

Oh wow!! thank you very very much for posting that pic, I have never seen that view before (but i am only  38 lol ) i'll ask my "font of all knowledge" on bradmore (mom lol ) but from looking at it the bottom building does look like the front of the gunmakers... as it appears on another pic of it (that I think ive posted here)

well done!! bradmore has always fascinated me (well i was born here lol ) and what i want to know too, is what sits behind that gunmakers when it was there... for we know that behind it is church road, well my great great great uncle lived at 3 church road, and was a gun lock maker  Charles Brazier (he also lived at gladstone terrace, victoria road) so seeing "behind" the building would be fascinating, tho i doubt i'll ever get to see that lol... im imaginging, the current 3 church road wasnt the original one (my gun lock maker lived there around 1880 off the top o my head)