Shard End, Thornton's Farm 1910
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Photo of Shard End, Thornton's Farm 1910

A Selection of Memories from Shard End

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Shard End

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My family moved to Shard End in 1951 to 11 Freasley Road. The estate was in its first stages then, no shops and no bus service, it was a walk to Lea village for the bus across the old bailey bridge. There was a lot of open ground in those days, I was still at school and an old bus used to collect us and take us to Pype Hayes Sec Mod school. When I left school I worked on Castle Bromwich airfield until I was called up ...see more