Old street pics..

[oldMohawk]

nice pics phil on post 2697..pic 1 showing tucker eyelets later to become tucker fasteners...sadly recently closed down
lyn

Hi Lyn - When I used to go past Tuckers upstairs on a bus I remember looking at their lines of machines working. It was quite a modern looking building for its time. I also remember 'our gang' walking down to look at those floods. The River Tame was very dirty in those days, with Hamstead Colliery and Ray Hall Sewerage works upstream.
Phil

 

[berniew]

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[berniew]

I know 1947 was a bad winter Phil but was that part of Walsall Road prone to flooding

 

[oldMohawk]

Hi Bernie - Yes I remember one or two floods there until they carried out flood improvement work in the area. I also remember seeing flooding in Old Walsall Rd Hamstead in either 1965 or 1966.
Phil

 

[berniew]

The only one I can find of those shops I think the tobacconist was Coopers wnen I lived around there

 

[derekw]

What a great pic that is Bernie,it certainly aint like that anymore......is that a horse and cart coming down the lane.

 

[csmith604]

how nice and peaceful it looks, not like today with the traffic clogging everywhere

 

[berniew]

Probably one of Raggy Allens and it aint like that anymore Derek

 

[berniew]

The next few pics are from a collection of kids photographs this and the next are captioned children playing in the street in Hockley 1943, looks later to me , from back to back and tunnel entry slums no location but if anyone recognizes the street it will be a bonus

 

[berniew]

Hockley no2

 

[berniew]

Dartmouth Street 1935

 

[berniew]

Another view of Birmingham Central Goods Depot it stood in a triangle of Allport Street , Suffolk Street and Holliday Street

 

[brummie nick]

In # 2714-5 I'd say 1943 is about right, I think the sand buckets hanging on the walls means the war was still on, I wonder what game the girls are playing, looks like it could be one we called 'statues' were you had to pose in the position when the person turned round.
Nick

 

[berniew]

It's like I remember the kids and streets when I was a kid Nick

 

[berniew]

Another crude attempt to enlarge Carols posts I hope she doesn't mind Brumgum

 

[derekw]

Re pic 2715...and they don't play that anymore,either,Bernie.

 

[berniew]

Well that's true Derek but there wasn't a car in sight then or for most of my childhood except main roads

 

[brumgum]

View attachment 88098View attachment 88099Another crude attempt to enlarge Carols posts I hope she doesn't mind Brumgum

Thank's ever so much Bernie, i was able to just show my Dad this on my smartphone on my visit today but the faces didn't ring any bells, a bit early for him 1925 i think.
It looks a wonderful room though and the kids don't seem too badly attired ride:

 

[Vivienne14]

That Floodgate School classroom looks to me like a very caring and nurturing place. And the children seem, on the whole, very happy children. How good to see that sort of example. Viv.

 

[berniew]

Your welcome Brumgum I seem to remember reading a very disturbing report on Floodgate Street school from around the turn of the century, they had installed baths and some of the kids were sewn into their winter clothes and had to be cut out to be bathed , they had all sorts of nasty infections and it was taking 30 to 45 mins to get the dirt off Viv

 

[Vivienne14]

Well Bernie no wonder the little ones seem happy. The classroom probably became a very important place to them having most likely come from appalling housing conditions. Wonder if it was usual for schools to install bathing facilities at this time. Never heard of it before. Viv.

 

[berniew]

I don't Know Viv the link to the report is on this site I'll have a look for it

 

[berniew]

Here's the link originally posted by Carol https://birminghamchildrenslives.wordpress.com/2012/05/

 

[brumgum]

i have a few shots of Floodgate Street School, amazing it survived really.

 

[ellbrown]

It's now part of the Digbeth Campus of South & City College Birmingham (previously South Birmingham College before the merger with City College Birmingham last year).

One from 2009

 

[mikejee]

Berniew
Regarding your post #2725, I shared a flat with a teacher for 9 monthe in 1968. It was his first job, and was somewhere in Aston, I cannot remember where now. He told me that they had had one child starting who was sewn into their clothes

 

[berniew]

You would think all that sort of thing would be long gone by 1968 Mike

 

[carolina]

Hay Mills (but no address)

 

[carolina]

Coventry Road, Small Heath

 

[DavidGrain]

I was at a meeting of a local history group some years ago when a slide was shown of a butchers shop with joints of meat hanging outside like in the Coventry Road photo and one member of the audience could not believe that meat was displayed like that.