WEST BROMWICH upper HIGH STREET, the part that no one visits, or even cares!!

[@awalkwithphil]

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[@geoffwbaU]

Fascinating stuff Phil. In my early years I grew up and lived in Florence Road, until the family moved to Black Lake in 1962. The building now occupied by the gym used to be a garage if memory serves me correctly and later became an AA service centre. It has probably changed hands a few times since then. The newsagents on the other corner has always been there I think, run by various people. A few yards into Florence Road was the site of a WW2 bomb hit and remained a pile of rubble well into the late 50s and possibly beyond. The church you saw is Holy Trinity and still very much alive and has changed little over the years. Opposite the church was Holy Trinity Infants school wher I was educated- it was a very old building and in more recent times was knocked down , to be replaced by a more modern school building. The area in the 50s was a decent place to live but it all sadly went into decline with the changes in the population demographic and I certainly would not want to live there now !

[@awalkwithphil]

Brilliant information, Im always interested in WW2 bomb sites and I was not aware of the one at Florence Road, as you say the area now as changed rather dramatically over the last 20years or so, many thanks for your comment much appreciated

[@geoffwbaU]

@@awalkwithphil I've found a website which confirms my information at www.westbromwichhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WestBromwichBombing1940.pdf I was beginning to doubt myself after I posted it ! I was born in 1947 and I cannot remember when my parents moved to Florence Road. The German raids were in 1940 and it is very unlikely that they were living there then . I will have to do some more digging by reference to the census and filling in some gaps in my family tree.

[@shanefrance5071]

West bromwich was great in the early days 😢

[@awalkwithphil]

I share your view

[@awalkwithphil]

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[@parshotamlal4776]

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[@jameshollyoak8230]

I didn’t realise that premier inn had gone from the bond plaza building , stayed there once many years ago and it was full of swingers from the swinging club next door , , what a mess that street has become

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

Hi Phil I was bought up in West Bromwich it used to be a nice town it not now it is so sad to see West Bromwich going down hill from Marie 😔

[@awalkwithphil]

Most will agree with you, sadly I doubt it will ever recover

[@paulhill196]

Hi Phil at the start of Upper High Street on the corner on the left hand side I remember a carpet / furniture shop and I worked in the old George Salter building for short time it was turned into factory units I worked for a firm called Littlewood and mills mig welding and at 85 the Chinese was call the Rose of China and I worked in Trinity Street for Trinity boilers arc welding enjoyed the walk around Upper High Street completely changed.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Paul for the info and support

[@Outandaboutwithpoggy]

Had many a nice meal in the Rose of China, worth the climb up the 200 steps, their chicken and mushroom soup was my favourite

[@awalkwithphil]

@@Outandaboutwithpoggy nice to know someone also remembered this long gone restaurant

[@simonnoble2345]

Thats the high crime area, all the bedsits in the backstreets, not the pedestrian part by kings square

[@tommorrissey]

Ah you are up my neck of the woods now Phil. The Olde Wineshop, my cousin ran The Prince Of Wales in the late 80’s and I went to The Chosen Few nightclub ( I think it was up that way but I may be corrected) for my 18th birthday.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Tom, great memories

[@parshotamlal4776]

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[@salopian4037]

Well, Phil, I can only think of one word to sum up that neck of the woods - and that is depressing, thoroughly depressing! I shudder to think what most of the old-timers would think if they could see their beloved town now. Further words fail me - well, they don't actually, but better that I don't say them!

[@awalkwithphil]

It is pretty dire

[@Wench64]

This is what I said, I know someone who lives near the town and he said it's terrible, he's in his 70s and feels like a foreigner in his own area, and can't get out and he was in the army

[@salopian4037]

@@Wench64 I thoroughly sympathise. I too am in my 70s and, although I have worked and lived in the area in the past, I now live many miles away in the Welsh Marches - and have done so for over twenty years. My heart bleeds for those who can only watch everything changing around them and can do nothing about it. I still have friends in that situation that I'm in contact with, so I very much understand. We will watch the powers-that-be in the next day or so - including the BBC - droning on about the D-Day heroes - whilst they have destroyed everything those heroes fought and died for.

[@baggiesikhsingh9871]

Only for the Sportsman, the Vine and my beloved WBA.!. BoingBoingBaggies:-)

[@rssagoo5780]

My road roebuck lane

[@Outandaboutwithpoggy]

Hi again Phil, had you used to be the leader of the West Bromwich Charlemont boys club based in Pennyhill Lane,many years ago as your face is uncannily familiar to me, by the way what camera do you use to record your video's please, I do short videos on my scooter around Dartmouth Park, being somewhat restricted with my walking, I use a pocket 3, Gopro Hero 9 and my mobile, another good video by the way, cheers Mike

[@awalkwithphil]

@@Outandaboutwithpoggy it’s a DJI pocket camera 3 and no that isn’t me that you describe I must have a doppelgänger

[@Wench64]

Sorry but I am 59 but I was bought up in old times by older people, I could see the decline in the 90s, it makes me sad, in the 70s and 80s, we had football special buses, or you walked from the albion, to West brom and then caught the bus, I went to the albion a few years ago and walked through the high street and couldn't believe how it had become

[@awalkwithphil]

I suspect most people who do happen to find themselves on this part of the HS are indeed walking up to the Albion ground

[@ctrmediawalsall4262]

Do you like West Bromwich Phil?

[@judithparker4608]

Do you remember Salters taken over by Avery...moved East....We Bought Won Switched....loyalty. using...New..Metric Discount Pound 1971......Shutting Doorways

[@robertjohnson9971]

No-one visits because they don't speak South Asian languages. It's like an extension of Handsworth now.

[@Wench64]

Sorry Phil how old are you, I feel like a dinosaur, when I see what has become of this great town

[@awalkwithphil]

I think we are of the same generation, the last ones who will carry the memories of a once great town, I really struggle to find any major positives. Practically every street I visit now has been changed for the worse

[@anothervoice9578]

@@awalkwithphil It's the same everywhere. Our gov't was infiltrated long ago whilst we were asleep at the wheel. It is still infiltrated today by those who seek to destroy English culture. We are now seeing the result of our own laziness.

[@bobbygreen6985]

It's a dump and we all know why