NextBackI Remember George Street, Walford Street and Red Lion Street in 1958; George Street, where I was born in 1947 at my maternal grandparents “Back to Back”, terraced house and Walford Street, with the Pub, “The Plumber’s Arms”, ran off George Street.
My parents moved to a house in Lodge Road, with “The Warwick Arms”, at the top of the hill, when I was 5 years of age.
As a schoolboy I remember leaving my Grandmother’s house in George Street to walk home alone, walking past Jack Sollis the Butcher’s shop and past Old Redditch Youth Club and down George Street toward Red Lion Street.
I would hurry past “Bob’s Café” towards the bottom of George Street as, as an 11 year old schoolboy I was nervous of the reputation of the 1950’s Teddy Boys, where the sound of Bill Haley’s “Rock around the clock” boomed and a quick glance through the front window of the café revealed jiving Teddy Boys and Girls.
Red Lion Street housed the old Fire Station and, opposite it, was the site of the Redditch Market.
