DavidGrain
master brummie
I can't read the destination board but I think it says Hockley Brook which would make it a cable car as suggested by Rupert
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It says Bournbrook I think and that would be Bristol Road at Dawlish. I don't think 'that cocoa' would go down well in that area. So maybe battery but have no idea where the batteries would be.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/m...=10116&ox=1264&oy=2585&zm=1&czm=1&x=547&y=123
The sheds says tramway stable at the time of the map so perhaps the tramcars were horse drawn at first. The doors look a bit like stable doors don't they. The track on the map does not curve in like the photo but it probably was changed to do so and it looks like the buildings behind the tramcar could match. Better photo below.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/m...=10116&ox=1264&oy=2585&zm=1&czm=1&x=547&y=123
The sheds says tramway stable at the time of the map so perhaps the tramcars were horse drawn at first. The doors look a bit like stable doors don't they. The track on the map does not curve in like the photo but it probably was changed to do so and it looks like the buildings behind the tramcar could match. Better photo below.
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DavidGrain
master brummie
Rupert is right this is a battery tram. I have managed to find a photo of the same or similar tram. Sorry my scan is not too clear
The batteries were stored behind the lower panels of the bodywork
The batteries were stored behind the lower panels of the bodywork
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Can anyone solves this mysterious (to me) little street in Birmingham...LITTLE HILL STREET.....full story here...https://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/.../story.../story.html Map would be ace please mike if you can?
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
This may help...I am not a tram nerd, so it is pretty baffling to me...but it is in David Harvey's book...and he very very much is THE guru...
Dennis
This subject has been on the forum before at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27436, though unfortunately the images have been lost twice. I think the report below was the original report that sparked the interest (which incidentally, with the original thread on the forum, pre-dates the report in the Bugle). I also attach gravestone pictures from the original post and a map showing little Hill St off Bristol St, just south of little Bow St, and an original report, though this is rather large, and to read it it will be necessary to save and enlarge the saved file.
This subject has been on the forum before at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27436, though unfortunately the images have been lost twice. I think the report below was the original report that sparked the interest (which incidentally, with the original thread on the forum, pre-dates the report in the Bugle). I also attach gravestone pictures from the original post and a map showing little Hill St off Bristol St, just south of little Bow St, and an original report, though this is rather large, and to read it it will be necessary to save and enlarge the saved file.
terryb18
Gone but not forgotten R.I.P.
Thats took me back a bit, I used to deliver milk there in the 70's.
Here's a link to the Mail https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/selly-oaks-lost-pubs-remembered-4696742
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
paul stacey
master brummie
I feel really sad that the OAK, and the Brooke are now gone, (how your youth slips away). Paul
I Am Nico
master brummie
Was Lench or Lenche a benefactor as there are 3 or so villages with known as the Lenches near Pershore? i.e. Church Lench
DavidGrain
master brummie
Lench's Trist provide almshouses in Birmingham and I doubt that the Pershore villages have any connection
For more information see https://www.lenchs-trust.co.uk/
A bit more on Lenches Trust here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...3&page=8&highlight=great+men+women+birmingham
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Small Heath Park photos reminds me of my father in 1940. He was rescued at Dunkirk, and upon his return to England was initially stationed at Dover Castle, but then was posted to Small Heath Park. My mother took me to see him (one of the few occasions that we had together). When we arrived, we found him sitting in the boat house drying out his clothes. Apparently he had fallen into the boating lake, as indeed had two or three other soldiers. Messing around I guess. He was then posted to Belfast, and we saw him once more, just before D Day.
posieflump
New Member
Hello from a new member who has been lurking here for some time. Thanks for the lovely pictures and accompanying stories. They've been really enjoyable.
With regard to post #561, Phil asked (two years ago, admittedly) "does anyone know why they demolished the footbridge by [Bournville] College?" This was followed by some speculation as to why it was pulled down.
I live a couple of minutes' walk from there and would like to confirm that the bridge is actually still standing and in regular use. As for it overlooking offices in Bournville Lane Police Station, there was a story in the Birmingham Mail a few years ago that a woman had mauled a sunlounger and a six-pack of beer onto the bridge on a particularly sunny day. The police were reportedly oblivious to this until the by now refreshed woman started throwing the empty cans over the bridge onto the passing cars below.
Bournville College, by the way, has now been completely demolished, and the old people's home (or "village," as they're styling it) which is to replace it is being thrown up at a fair old rate.
Apologies if anybody else has mentioned the bridge. There are about 200 pages of this thread I've yet to see!
Martin.
With regard to post #561, Phil asked (two years ago, admittedly) "does anyone know why they demolished the footbridge by [Bournville] College?" This was followed by some speculation as to why it was pulled down.
I live a couple of minutes' walk from there and would like to confirm that the bridge is actually still standing and in regular use. As for it overlooking offices in Bournville Lane Police Station, there was a story in the Birmingham Mail a few years ago that a woman had mauled a sunlounger and a six-pack of beer onto the bridge on a particularly sunny day. The police were reportedly oblivious to this until the by now refreshed woman started throwing the empty cans over the bridge onto the passing cars below.
Bournville College, by the way, has now been completely demolished, and the old people's home (or "village," as they're styling it) which is to replace it is being thrown up at a fair old rate.
Apologies if anybody else has mentioned the bridge. There are about 200 pages of this thread I've yet to see!
Martin.
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BernardR
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Tracy your post has been moved to the Ghost Sign thread - https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=40355&highlight=ghost+signs
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claireswilby
Brummie babby
I love all these old pics are there any of Acocks Green from the forties onwards please? Also where can I get copies of these pics?