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Old street pics..

I like this Harborne one carolina, there is some development work going on at the moment on the building in the middle, I've always called the Clock Tower?
Lovely clothes too!
rosie.
 
rosie said:
I like this Harborne one carolina, there is some development work going on at the moment on the building in the middle, I've always called the Clock Tower?
Lovely clothes too!
rosie.
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Rosie I lived in Harborne for a while and still go back occasionally and still like it there.
 
rosie said:
I like this Harborne one carolina, there is some development work going on at the moment on the building in the middle, I've always called the Clock Tower?
Lovely clothes too!
rosie.
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I went to a lecture about Old Brum, and someone commented on how people in the pictures always looked rather smart, the chap giving the talk said, the only people with cameras were usually professional photographers, that worked Monday to Saturday in their studios, and only went out on the streets on Sundays, when most people in those times wore their ‘Sunday Best’ clothes.
Nick
 
I'vr worked at Thornley and Knight a few times contracting Fashionz , it used to amaze me how they matched the colours by eye , the café was pretty good
 
I hadn't thought of that Nick! It would account for the men in straw "boaters" and ladies in lovely hats in some of the photos.
rosie.
 
hi alan I lived at 229? or was it 29? tower hill , right opposite the hp building that backed onto the school playground . the block and all the houses around the back of it were demolished to make way for a new hp building . this left a bare patch on the corner of upper Thomas st , opposite the foundary . my parents were peggy and eddie lundon , he worked in hp. my best mate lived a few doors up , steve hughes . an older girl played with us in the street 9 I think she was about 15 at the time ,her name was ester . ring any bells ? regards roger
 
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