(Central Library ref WK/E2/535) Goosemoor
Lane bend, 29th August 1932
(Central Library ref WK/E2/535)
The "after" photo. Much better! No centre white-lines though (the present keep-left signs etc were placed around the late 1970's and other work has continued from then). The Pavilion Cinema on Gravelly Lane is in view (left).
Yenton Motors
The garage (where Hawthorn Close now is) that sold
petrol until in the 1970's and closed a few years back moved to
the junction of Birmingham Road and Chester Road where the
McDonald's now is but was independent until the mid-70's and
bought by Yenton of Birmingham Road when it's Goosemoor Lane
owner retired. Yenton Garages also in fact lay on both sides of
Birmingham Road. All 3 three are gone now. At stages during it's
existence on Goosemoor Lane it was called Yew Tree Garage and
Goosemoor Lane Garage and was run by a family called Speake.
emailed in;
"The garage mentioned was run by my Grandad, George Speake. He was married to Audrey my gran and they had two children, Derek - my dad, and Christine, my Auntie."
www.obgt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk has pics of old Birmingham garages, though not the Yenton.
Anstey College
This originally lay off Chester Road roughly where
Lennox Grove and Hellaby Court are now (an apartment block there
is called Anstey Court). They owned the Anstey field on the
Goosemoor Lane bend and the field's entrance was from Gravelly
Lane (now the disused old people's home). Anstey College had a
soft tennis court, three cricket nets and a hockey pitch. Girls
only many say but I seem to remember mixed teams using the field
in the 1970's.
Goosemoor
Lane bend, 2002
