KIDDERMINSTER 1936: A memory of Kidderminster

Kidderminster 1936

A Memory of Kidderminster.

I would often go to Kidderminster with my father, he would go there to do ' The Banking' he was about 30 years old, ran the new Mitre Oak Hotel at Crossway Green and played cricket for Hartlebury 1936. In later years, I was back from National Service in Egypt, the dance at the Black Horse on a Saturday night was a bit of a draw ( 1955 ). Remember the policeman on traffic duty in the middle of Kidderminster.

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I also remember well the policeman's pulpit, my parents were neighbours of Sergeant Powell who often was that policeman
TBC garage K16103
My father (Frank Francis) worked at this garage TBC following his return to Kidderminster at the end of the war. He worked there through all of the remaining 40s and 50s. As a young boy I had the run of the garage and its roof garden. TBC (Tenbury Baths Company) owned the swimming baths at Tenbury Wells and an open air pool and filling station at Fenn Green on the A442.
Beyond the garage on the left are the Central ABC Cinema and Rawlins paper shop, then the junction with Prospect Hill and Green street. On the skyline on the other side of town is the gas holder in the Gas Works, pulled down following the advent of North Sea Gas pipelines.
The roof garden was not visible from ground level, or even atop a Midland Red double decker bus. The garden was very attractive.
The managing director, Colonel Birtcher, lived in a large house in Bewdley which I visited as a child helping my Dad to cut grasss in his orchard.
At some point the Carpet factory behind the garage was demolished for a car park and TBC bought part of the site opening up a huge work shop for cars and lorries and even agricultural tractors. The finest in the region.

By alanfrancis66 on Thu Jun 4th 2020, at 9:59 am

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