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Various street pics

I love the concept of training the girls on how to keep the place clean. The text adds greater depth to the photo.
 
Topsy
Where is the picture on the right of the Globe. I can't seem to find Lashmore tobacconists in Brum
Mike
 
#89 Smashing picture at the No 8 bus stop . Stood there many of time waiting for the bus to take us to The Roller Rink Spring Hill. The Union pub is at the back of the bus (not literaly)
 
Thanks topsy. That explain it. It isn't H. Lashmore on the shop. it is H.L. Ashmore
mike
 
Hi Corol
I have this one which was prev posted, i will have a look for anymore i might have.


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Regards Stars
 
hi I thought how interesting this photo was i thought i would post it and share it with you.
I hope they still got their Divi.



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Regards Stars
 
This is interesting Stars. The caption says it was a mobile greengrocery, but was it really 'mobile' with all that produce on top?! Also in view of it being a mobile van, it has a surprising range on offer. It feels almost familiar, but I don't remember seeing one of these on the streets. Maybe they didn't deliver around our neck of the woods. I do remember we had the bread van and the milk delivery on a horse-drawn cart in the 1950s. Viv.
 
I reckon it would have been a busy mobile shop having three staff. It was amazing, in the days when things were more relaxed, how much could be loaded into and on to road vehicles. There were many mobile shops in Britain, particularly in rural areas, and were a great help to busy housewives and country workers.

In Devon, before widespread use of buses, a drovers cart carried people to market once or twice a week. The waggon was usually more than full and had to accommodate articles taken to market and also returned with items purchased there. It was often a tight squeeze - well built farm hands and bucksome ladies - but everyone knew everyone else. It was a great day out, usually, and the weekly chat (gossip) was caught up with. ;)

I never herd of these methods of transport in Warwickshire or Birmingham but in the latter part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth centuries I am sure they existed in the Midlands as well.
 
Hi Stars - I remember those but possibly from 'Ten Acres and Stirchley' Co-Op (TASCO). Yes Viv they were definitely mobile. The stuff just stayed up there until needed a they would not have got up to that much of a speed. Yes I am sure you got your Divi.
 
Hi
I do remember a grocery van used to come down our road in the 50s, and we used to save the money off coupons and give them to him in exchange for sweets.

happy days Stars
 
Hi to all
A few mixed ones to ponder over.





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I don't know if this is an older photo of the same church lyn, as the one you posted


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Regards Stars
 

Here are a few to look over, some are old some are new.





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Please keep your memories and comments coming, i love reading them. Regards Stars




 
Stars I love the old
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Aston Cross ones as my gt grandfather had the shop to the right of the clock in the late 1800s. It was No 2 Lichfield Road
 
Hi Corolina
What a nice photo, it makes a difference when you have family conections to a photo.

regards stars
 
great pic carlolina and as stars had said made even better for you with the family connection to that shop...

lyn
 
I don't know if this has been shown before, but i think it is a smashing photo.
and before you ask NO they are not related to me.




A street scene in 1898 Aston



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Regards Stars
 
That is a lovely photo, they do look poor but the two little girls on the left are very well dressed they must have been the posh kids of the area.
 
stars pic on post 114 has been posted before so thanks for putting it back on...ive always wondered what street in aston is was...
 
Hi Lyn
yes it would be nice to know where it was. It is a shame but a lot of people do not think
to put any details on the back of the photo.


Stars
 
Stars, Just found these great pictures. Very sad to see the children without shoes. Times were very hard for some. The picture #116 is fascinating as every available space is taken up with goods like an Aladdins Cave..........
 
Anthea
It is a good photo. Thats when you were served as a person and you were always right.
well so they tell me.

Stars
 
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