Brettell Lane & Amblecote In The Good Old Days

Video done one sunday morning in 1993

[@deirdrehaigh9662]

Fond memories of Brettel Lane, it was my first home after my marriage in 1967. My husband and l rented a flat behind the Post Office. It was lovely just walked out of our door and all the shops on our door step. We emigrated to Australia in 1968, looking back it was one of the happiest times in my life. Love Oz my family are here, but my heart will always be in England.

[@barrygreen9341]

Blimey must be getting old. Late 80s are the good old days!

[@sgbh8874]

Trevor the barber? Was in there one day. He did a lot of his work with an electric razor. He was half way through cutting a customer’s hair when the power went off, so he got his manual clippers out. Lucky for me, the power came back on when it was my turn. Lovely bloke and a proper old school character.

[@groovygraham123]

brings back so many memories for me

[@mickwright3805]

There was no big macs then no litter

[@olipreece8917]

Miss the old brettell lane

[@iainclark5964]

I remember using the Amblecote library many times in the 70s!

[@Mark333032]

Wow. What a find. One of those shops at 1.54 was my grandparents' newsagents and their family home. Eric and Daisy Griffiths died in 1978 and 1979. My father, Bryan, their only child was born and grew up there alongside his Uncle Jack and grandad Arthur. Sadly, Dad died in 2022. Does anyone remember them? It had been a family shop for a generation or two before them. When Dad married Mum in 1961 they moved away and we grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire but used to visit my grandparents Eric and Daisy at the shop in the 1970s. When my grandparents died, Dad sold the building and I think it became a hire and knife sharpening shop for a brief period. Many years later, the day after I was married in September 1992, we drove along High Street heading off on our road trip honeymoon just as that row of shops was being demolished. I stopped to take a few pictures. So this video was actually sometime earlier in 1992.

[@emmarobinson1240]

Noticed there was very little litter back then!

[@richardgeorge8612]

I remember the fish and chip shop at the bottom of Brettell Lane, run by the parents of a boy I went to school with Peter Panai, hope I've spelt it right,lovely food such a nice family

[@LosAngelesRaiders]

Brilliant video dawncrystal. Some pics of Brettle Lane appear in a book about Stourbridge/Halesowen which features pictures taken by local residents.

[@thedoubleoutoftrouble]

It did have character then and a lot more pubs

[@thedoubleoutoftrouble]

Who can remember China hill takeaway and a j mees photoprints that a thought for a true amblecote and also the little pig pub ran by ken b.

[@adelaidetrainsandothermetr2525]

Remember the Chinese, lived opposite there and was mates with Ting Hong lee whose dad owned the shop. Good ole days

[@Michael-tl2qr]

much better then than the mess they have of made of it now, it had character and charm, now its just traffic and plastic fast foods and tesco expresses

[@Canalcoholic]

What a dump. Most of the buildings remain, road has been improved. Miss the glasshouse cones, I used to work school and Uni. holidays at Stuart’s and Royal Brierley.

[@ianhayden2547]

I was an apprentice glass maker at Web and corbettes and grew up around there. Audnam was a lovely little village, I remember that Amblecote was near stourbridge football ground, or have I gone completely nuts in my old age?

[@Metalmachinecrush]

Two wheels bike shop used to be just over the lights on the left before it moved to the bottom of brettle lane.

[@pigbrick1965]

i miss raj tandoori....super food

[@richardgeorge8612]

just at the start as the camera pans left of the traffic lights the second empty shop with the blue and white front I believe was a chip shop. I went to school with a boy called Peter Panai whose family used to own this business before the video was shot, I have been told that the family returned to Greece, many happy days living there in Nursery Gardens

[@dawncrystal9650]

hello mate yes we called it georges chippy as far as i know the family still lives in stourbridge as i see them from time to time

[@thedoubleoutoftrouble]

Jack and georgina ran that chippy . Wish it was still open they were the best around .0

[@WordsleyBaggies]

Looks a damn sight better now..traffic still a nightmare though.

[@lindaadams4831]

I remember the Newsagents in the 50s and 60s owned by an ex Albion footballer..can`t remember his name !!!

[@robertwilliams684]

Linda Adams Ray Barlow ,played for the Albion

[@lindaadams4831]

Thanks Robert, been trying to remember his name for ages !!!!

[@Johnny_Seven]

@@lindaadams4831 I remember Ray Barlows shop. I used to walk down to there from Hawbush Road to get my Airfix models. Happy days.

[@jonnyg8888]

much better now , bit of a dump then