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hatchett street pics

Astoness

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hi folks..would anyone have any pics of the old houses that were in hatchett street newtown please...

thanks for any help

lyn
 
oh thats a great start...thanks moss...im just trying to help someone who was born in the back to backs in hatchett st....its only a small street so i guess pics will be hard to come by..

thanks again...

lyn
 
must be slipping folks...i have had these photos for couple of years now and thought i had posted them...couple of the street and of havergal house which opened in 1890 as a girls club..a place for factory girls young and old to socialise..learn to knit and sew and were taken on outings to the lickey hills or the seaside...it was eventually opened to boys and continued until the 1960s when it was taken over the boys brigade...the building is still there..

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map here for new member martyn showing no 53 hatchett street in purple almost on the corner with summer lane...the house was still there in the 1950s

lyn

hatchett st map no 53 in purple 1950s.jpg
 
Astoness said:
must be slipping folks...i have had these photos for couple of years now and thought i had posted them...couple of the street and of havergal house which opened in 1890 as a girls club..a place for factory girls young and old to socialise..learn to knit and sew and were taken on outings to the lickey hills or the seaside...it was eventually opened to boys and continued until the 1960s when it was taken over the boys brigade...the building is still there..

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The Havergal House in these photos dates from the autumn of 1934, the foundation stone being laid in September of that year.
 
Does anyone else remember the accident on Newtown Row in the early 60s, when a van/lorry with a ladder protruding from it's roof came down from Hatchett St and pierced an out of city bus and killed a passenger?
 
Banjo said:
Does anyone else remember the accident on Newtown Row in the early 60s, when a van/lorry with a ladder protruding from it's roof came down from Hatchett St and pierced an out of city bus and killed a passenger?
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Banjo said:
Does anyone else remember the accident on Newtown Row in the early 60s, when a van/lorry with a ladder protruding from it's roof came down from Hatchett St and pierced an out of city bus and killed a passenger?
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bit early for me banjo but maybe someone could take a look in the newspapers for you

lyn
 
mikejee said:
I assume this is what you refer to, though the damage was done by 30 ft steel girders, not a ladder

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Thanks for that information Mike, it's certainly brought that incident back to focus for me. Although I can't remember all the details (the fact it was girders makes it more shocking than I remember), every time I've ever passed Hatchett St since, I've thought about that day. Is there a date Mike?
 
banjo if you hover over the snippets the dates are there...the one with the photograph is dated 2nd nov 1960 and says the accident happened the day before

lyn
 
Astoness said:
banjo if you hover over the snippets the dates are there...the one with the photograph is dated 2nd nov 1960 and says the accident happened the day before

lyn
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Lyn, I think I may have a cropped version as apart from the yesterday reference, I can't see that date anywhere. But, thank you for giving me the date anyway.
 
Lyn. Ive always said what you just posted, but have just noticed on my android mobile that that does not seem to work.i doest of my work on.mynlaptop so had not noticed it
 
mikejee said:
Lyn. Ive always said what you just posted, but have just noticed on my android mobile that that does not seem to work.i doest of my work on.mynlaptop so had not noticed it
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mike i only use a lappy and when i hover over the dates do show up...obviously not the case for some

lyn
 
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