This must have been where the old folks bungalows are today. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
On Monday, and excellent contribution came in to the blog from reader Brian Clenton – and it’s something I feel many will enjoy, and hopefully spark off a few memories.
Brian sent a bunch of pictures from around his father’s butchers shop – Clentons – that used to stand at 9, Linden Road, just up from anchor bridge. The photos capture the shop and the yard opposite it that would now be where the grassed area with the trees on stands today. Many of the shots show the flats and Lindon Drive estate being built, or in a state of newness.
Note the last shot shows a clear view across what was farmland, over the canal to the Warreners arms before the estate was even built.
Brian had this to say about the pictures:
Hi Bob
I’ve got a few photographs that might be of interest to you.
My father’s Butchers shop was at 9 Lindon Road and the view across the road towards Halls Farm fields before and during the erection of the flats (Wayne House etc.) the view is over where the foundry used to be, just below the Anchor Bridge.
The old blue lorry was Taylor’s Transport from by the Vigo
Best wishes
Brian Clenton
Thanks to Brian for an absolutely fascinating contribution – and the scans are particularly well done.
Please, if you have anything to add – comment here or mail me: BrownhillsBob at Googlemail dot com. Cheers.
This perplexed me for a bit; I think the hedge has gone these days and that’s Catshill Junction through the trees. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
Can anyone identify the vehicles, please? Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
I’ve heard many people mention Clintons, but never seen a good picture before. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
I find this particularly interesting – that scaffolding looks like it took ages to erect. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
Everything looks so new – but I don’t remember that fence. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
The old foundry – now Chandlers Keep – is visible to the front left. Part of that wall in the lower foreground still stands. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.
Look carefully – that’s the Warreners in the background, with nothing but a car, fields and a canal between the Lindon Road and it. Image kindly supplied by Brian Clenton.