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Voices of Kingstanding (8)
- Barry Gater on the Circle shops in the 1950s…, Barry Gater remembers the shops on Kingstanding Circle in the 1950s. The clip is shown under ‘Memories of Barry Gater from the 1950’s’ on the Kingstanding Circle shops …
- Walking round the Circle, about 1940I lived in Hurlingham Rd so my approach to “The Circle” was along Kingstanding Rd from Haringey Rd, past a small school/Nursery, then the Birmingham Municipal Bank, past …
- Father Christmas and a goatI went to a day nursery close to kingstanding circle in 1942 to about 47. Still have many good memories. It was a wooden building with a pram shelter outside. I remember …
- Vimto outside the Charlie, and on to Hollywood…ed on now. I was a member of the cine club at the circle community hall, I ended up working on a few films in Hollywood, whoever would have thought that it would inspire …
- Digging pits on the Pimple…ech. Had part time jobs with co-op butcher on the circle and paper round at Kirtons on Kingstanding Road, (by Lathems the drapers.). Our house back garden was on the fenc…
- A brand new house in Cooksey Lane…ries of our life in Kingstanding, shopping at The Circle, going to the park, playing on the green opposite our house. The family left Kingstanding in about 1969. My Grand…
- ‘Got any gum, chum?’… them ‘got any gum chum’ Down on the Kingstanding Circle area drunken GIs would be thrown in the back of military trucks and taken back to the Pheasey base by the MPs. Wh…
- Gran’s house on Dormington Road…she would collect off the road for her roses. The Circle had lots of good browsing shops although my gran would only visit shops she had interests in, like the post offic…
Heritage archive (8)
- The Circle from the air, 1930s1930s — Kingstanding Circle in the 1930s. Voices of Kingstanding uses this aerial view on its pages for the original Kingstanding pub and the Odeon. Barry Gater told the …
- Shuttered doorways under a tiled frieze, the Circle, c. 2011…Hillcox asked readers on Voices of Kingstanding’s Circle shops page: “What used to be behind these doors?”
- Faded toy-shop lettering above a shop at the Circle, c. 2011…Hillcox asked readers on Voices of Kingstanding’s Circle shops page: “What shops used to be here?”
- The old and new Co-op near the Circle, c. 2011…Voices of Kingstanding’s page on the Kingstanding Circle shops.
- A. M. Oldham, draper, at the Circle, 1930s1930s — Oldham’s on Kingstanding Circle, 1930s. Bernie Ryman writes on Voices of Kingstanding: “This is a photo of my wife with her mother out side their shop, A M OLDHAM…
- Kingstanding Circle Community Association: the planned extension, 19791979 — Kingstanding Community Association and extension, artist’s impression, 1979. The community hall at the corner of Kings Road and Kingstanding Road was opened by the…
- Kingstanding Circle Council Nursery, 198829 August 1988 — The old council nursery on Kingstanding Road, 29 August 1988, before it was knocked down and rebuilt. The single-storey nursery building, painted white w…
- The Kingstanding pub and the Odeon, 1960s…of the Beacon / Odeon Cinema / Mecca Bingo at the Circle. Alan Hitchman writes there: “The Odeon Cinema was a regular Saturday morning matinee … there was always a Cowboy…
Landmarks & places (7)
- Kingstanding Circle…s, with the Odeon’s tower beside it. Kingstanding Circle is the great roundabout where Kings Road meets Kingstanding Road — the heart of Kingstanding since the estate wen…
- Shops of the Circle…, Rochelle’s, Knights, Lennons and the Co-op: the Circle’s shops and shopkeepers as Kingstanding remembers them, from 1930 to today. Bernie Ryman was sure of one thing. A…
- St Mark’s Church… from Holly Lane (now Kingstanding Road) near the Circle in 1928. Bandy was a game rather like hockey, once played in the woods — and the cottages there were well known i…
- Icknield Street…e, the farm that stood just south-west of today’s Circle, it said the Roman road “does not exist as a modern road”. The line was there, in other words, but not the road i…
- Roman Field…Kings Road met the road north, close to where the Circle is now. The parish tithe map of 1841 had a Roman Field and a Lower Roman Field. A walking route printed in 1863 w…
- Kettle House FarmThe farm just south of today’s Circle that gave its name to the Kettlehouse estate: in the deeds by 1814, a Calthorpe farm from 1846, and farmed by the Judds until 1936. …
- King’s Vale Well and Pumping Station…s now Kingstanding, a short walk south of today’s Circle. The Company was about to make a very expensive bet there, and lose it. Six million gallons a day Looking back in…
Birmingham history: people (5)
- Josiah Wedgwood…Birmingham resident, but he was part of the Lunar circle, helped pay for Priestley’s Birmingham laboratory and made the most famous image of the campaign against the slav…
- Erasmus Darwin…m. Yet without him the town’s greatest scientific circle might never have formed, and Birmingham might never have got its foxglove doctor. The doctor from Lichfield Darwi…
- William Withering…iety. Withering was one of the Lunar Society, the circle of Boulton, Watt, Keir, Priestley, Galton and Darwin that dined together each month near the full moon. The frien…
- James Keir…most often at Boulton’s Soho House. Keir knew the circle from both ends: Darwin from university, Boulton and Watt from Soho, Priestley from the laboratory, and Thomas Day…
- Matthew Boulton…favourite meeting place of the Lunar Society, the circle of friends — Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, William Withering and others — who met near…
Birmingham history: places (8)
- Newhall Hill meeting ground…ack the Reform Bill. The speakers stood on a half-circle of wagons in the valley while banners crowded the slopes. In May 1832, as the Bill hung in the balance, came the …
- Statue of Joseph Priestley, Ratcliff Passage… other end. Two members of the Lunar Society, the circle of friends who met by the full moon to talk science, face each other again across the heart of the city that once…
- Statue of James Watt, Ratcliff Passage… Munro, a Scottish sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. The Dictionary of National Biography lists among his works “a colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham”. His…
- Kynoch’s Lion Works, Witton…ere demolished. A photograph caption on the Outer Circle bus history site records the “IMI Witton gates & head office building 2003 – not long before demolition”. The las…
- Gaumont Palace, Colmore Circus…3 that the screen measured “95 ft. around the semicircle and 32 ft. high”, reported to be the largest in the country. That screen made the Gaumont a destination. From May…
- Curzon Street Station (1838)…urzon Street Station)”. The story has turned full circle. The building that greeted the first trains from London in 1838 now waits for a new line to London to open beside…
- St Mary’s Church, Handsworth…and Heathfield’s lodge, and the story closes in a circle. Boulton, the businessman; Watt, the engineer; Murdoch, the practical genius who made their machines work. They s…
- Upper Priory Cotton Mill…se in Birmingham, with two donkeys going round in circles.
Birmingham history: firms and societies (1)
