Photos of Cotteridge
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Turn of the Century
The Birmingham and Worcester Canal, at Lifford Lane / Pershore Road Bridge; about 1900
1910s
Cotteridge School 1912 (photo courtesy of Mr T James)
1920s
Cotteridge Infants 1928 (photo courtesy of Mr George Nicholls - please contact us if you know who any of the children are!)
1930s
1773 Pershore Road in about 1930. William Fleetwood once lived here.
Cotteridge Carnival, 1936/7. Cliff Fleetwood writes, "The vehicle is a long nose Fleetwood's Bedford lorry which were not running much after 1940/41. The last job that this particular vehicle was engaged in was going around most of the public air raid shelters emptying the chemical closets. It was driven throughout by a man called Johnny Biddle. His one claim to fame was an incident when emerging from under a railway bridge near to Kitts Green, when a bomb dropped by a lone German bomber exploded and took the front engine bonnet off the lorry. Two seconds later and Kitts Green would have been covered in s..."
Kings Norton Fire Station band, circa 1930 (click on the picture for big version)
The "bottom shop" at the corner of Frances Road and Lifford Lane, early 1930s (thanks to Jan Lovesey for this - her website has loads more information)
1940s
Cotteridge School - St George and the Dragon mumming play from 1945 (photo courtesy of Mr T James)
Cotteridge School football team 1945 - 46; players
included Barry Hicks, George Caldicott,
Cedric Herbert, Fred
Lee and Derek Base (photo courtesy of Mr T James)
Thanks to Cliff Fleetwood for these photos. He writes, "my father, Bill Fleetwood, was possibly one of first 'horse whisperers', who won vast numbers of trophies for his horses" in the 1920s and 30s. He remembers, ""Snowy" Mason, or "Dripping" Ballinger, or Herbert Wathen who lived in Dell Road. Finally Walter Carrol who was the blacksmith responsible for shoeing most of the horses in the area, & who originally acquired the land in Breedon Road from Fishers. Dad bought the whole property from Walter."
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Alfred Kinsella -
this photo courtesy of his grandson, David. Alfred worked at Fleetwood's
and David was keen to find out any more information. A full history
of WR Fleetwood Ltd is here.
Cliff Fleetwood has replied with the picture below.
Cliff writes, "Is this Alfred? If not I would love to know his name (the man not the horse). He was the last man employed by Fleetwood's to drive horses, and the picture was taken in the late 50s. His job was to cart materials to R.J.Hunt Ltd. I have also managed to recall another carter who was also employed on that work, as well as carting at Sturges Lifford Lane. His name was Frank Harvey and I think lived in Selly Park".
Also thanks to Cliff Fleetwood for this picture of the Police Aux MS, taken in Tally Ho in 1942/3. Cliff was based in Stirchley Police Station.
Back Row L to R: Lol Avery, Cliff, Stan____, (?).
Front
row, Roy Mosely, Stan Boraston, Ray Mosely (yes they were twins).
1950s
Mr and Mrs Winscott - Newsagents, Watford Road
1951
This is now owned by Mr and Mrs Garfield
Crowds watching Bees in Watford Road
Cotteridge Carnival in the 1950s
Cotteridge Primary School football team, 1959-60. Thanks to Neil Brown (goalkeeper) for this: contact us if you want to get in touch with him.
Update: Marty Holeyman has e-mailed to say that he is the Harry Potter lookalike on the right hand side. If anyone wants to get in touch with him, e-mail using the link at the side and we'll forward it on.
A trip, possibly to Kettering Park, organised by Frances Road resident Mrs Butler in circa 1952/3. Participants were Frances Road residents past and present and include Lois Brown, Molly Hickey, Phyllis Patrick, Maggie Snipe, Alice Howes, Rodney Stokes, Sidney Banner and Steve Lovesey. The coach is provided by Birmingham firm Ludlow Brothers. (thanks to Jan Lovesey for this - her website has loads more information and pictures).
1960s
The Life Boys which met at St. Agnes' Church in the 1950/60s. Thanks to Mary Thorpe for this, who writes: "the top one features just Reverend Fred Carroll and Miss Jennifer Fryer and the second is about a year later. Names of the boys (on the first) I can remember are: next to Revd. Carroll is someone Edge, next to Miss Fryer is Paul Cooper, then back row second from the left is Robert Bassett, Stuart Maddocks, Leslie Ormrod, [don't know] David Harris, Martin Holeyman, [don't know], someone Gilman, (don't know). I have a photo (somewhere) of the Girls Life Brigade which I shall send when it is found. Hope someone can fill in the rest of the names!" E-mail us if you can help. Names shown in blue were added by Les Ormrod.
Thanks again to Mary for this photo of the Girls' Life Brigade at St. Agnes Church, sometime in the early 1960s.She writes, "again, I can't remember names, but those I do remember are from top left, Mary Harris (me!), two sisters, unknown, unknown, Janet Fisher, Jacqueline someone, unknown, then on the front row, unknown, Delia Harris (no relation), Joan Badger, Reverend Fred Carroll, unknown, Anne Fisher. I do hope someone is able to furnish the other names. I continued in the GLB, eventually going to the Company at the Methodist Church until I started helping Joan Badger with the Brownies back at St. Agnes's in the 1970s".
1970s
Police flats (now local authority housing) under construction on Breedon Road, on the site of the former Fleetwoods yard. The full history of WR Fleetwood Ltd is here.
Walter Warring the barber of Midland Rd. for over 70 years
Silver Jubilee, 1977: The Queen's car, Pershore Road, in between Holly Road and Cotteridge Road (unfortunately photo taken too early).
Silver Jubilee celebrations in Cotteridge Road
The driveway to St. Agnes' Church Hall (1977)
Discos at the Breedon Cross, around 1976-8
Thanks to Matt
Chambers for these - more of his Breedon photos are available on
Flickr by clicking here.
Snow in Cotteridge Road. The entrance to the bar door of the Grant Arms. Possibly 1981.
Cotteridge at the turn of the Millennium
Cotteridge Island, looking down Watford Road (away from the church); July 1997
Pershore Road, from outside the Jet garage, looking downhill towards Stirchley
The Breedon Bar (Pershore Road / Lifford Lane)
closed in 1994 or so, caught fire in 1995;
was demolished in
early 2003 and has been redeveloped as affordable housing
Number 47 bus from town arriving at Watford Road / Pershore Road
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham at Cotteridge School's
Centenary celebrations, 2nd October 2000
The Lord Mayor, on the right; with Pam Flello, school caretaker and Queen Victoria for the day
Cotteridge in 2008
Cotteridge - looking down Pershore Road from the junction of Watford Road and Pershore Road South- autumn 2008.
The old Barclays Bank building is closed - as of 2008 planning constraints and the economic downturn (plus a massive safe) mean it's sitting empty awaiting development.
Beaumont Court - the old Cotteridge bus depot, now old people's housing, built in the late 1980s
Breedon Court - flats on the site of the old Breedon Cross pub, completed in 2004
Birmingham and Worcester Canal, looking towards Bournville
Cotteridge Church. The new buildings to the right were opened in 1989 and are used for community facilities and a day centre for the elderly.
Cotteridge Fire Station.
Cotteridge School - note the new play equipment and double glazed windows, amongst other upgrades.
The Sea Scouts at the corner of Dell Road and Pershore Road - TS Sherbourne
Kings Norton Station
The former "Jet Station" on the Pershore Road, near the school, is now a Murco garage - the used car sales yard immediately to the right of this picture is now two houses.
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