E Wallins Builders merchant and timber merchant in Upper Webster Street their yard backed on to copley Street it was quite a big drop as Upper Webster Street was lower. The house behind the lorry was were a friend of mine lived many years later his name being alan Lees
47 Upper Webster Street by angela coles
angela, then angela Harvey and Timmy Healey
It was a grocery shop called Irene’s; I was born there in august 1959 to Irene and David Harvey. There were two other shops in Webster Street the crowley’s shop on the corner of the bomb peck and Patel’s Indian shop on the corner of Webster Street and clarendon Street and the pub called the clarendon arms.
My father had a hot dog van he used to park by the Hippodrome on wrestling nights and when the pubs turned out. Timmy Healy lived in the house/lock up that was getting demolished, his family was Della, George and Sharon Healy. The lock up was a blind making factory. My mother worked for them as well.
That’s all I can tell you about that I was very young then. When Irene and Pamela sisters worked for the HP sauce factory the HP did the christmas parties for the workers children. I remember a magic act and a large tin of paints off Father christmas.
The Portland metal works factory made car parts and metal channels that you put in filing cabinets the owners where charlie Willy. It was a Family run factory the sons where Michael and Mark Willy. Irene and Pamela worked there about 1967.
In the photo was Irene Harvey, June Price, Iris Bradbury, June Hazel, Betty and Irene. Pamela married a man from clarendon Street John Powell his brother was David Powell. They went to Burlington Street School.
angela coles
Upper Webster Street V E Day
I had the shock of my life when I saw the street I was born in published in the Evening Mail picture above it even brought tears to my eyes.
I was born on the 2.11.35 in 45 Upper Webster Street by the lamp-post on the right side of the street going up. I had also three brothers and one sister they were Ted, Fred and Johnnie Berry, alice Berry and me Lilian.
The two men talking in the picture, one looks like my father Ernest Berry and my mother's name was Mrs Lily Berry.
My eldest brother Ted Berry has passed away. We all went to Burlington Street girls and boys. I left school at 15 which was in 1950.1 went to work in Ingall Parson and clives on Newtown Row just up the road from the Barton arms. I had £2 10s a week, working as a sewing machinist I had a few jobs in my life. I worked for 19 years in the GEc Witton, also eight years in a silver warehouse in Hockley. I worked for 49 years but now I am retired and putting my feet up.
My sister alice and I used to sing carols in the Barton
arms at christmas time and we used to get plenty of money. also we used to sit outside the albert Hall Dance and listen to Sid Phillips Dance Band and watch all the couples going in. We used to go to the Globe picture house on a Saturday morning, they were all good memories. I will never forget ever.
I even remember when I was four in 1939 and running up the hill to Mrs Lane's shop for the air raid shelter because the Germans were dropping the bombs on aston and when the end of the war came we all got dressed up in red, white and blue and had a street party.
Plus bonfire night we would light a bonfire in every street where we lived and marched round them all with some, one banging on a drum.
They were all good memories I shall treasure forever. I was wondering if I could have a photograph of this picture blown up. Mrs Lilian Mccormick cottrills Lane alum Rock.
