but with a beautiful metaphor for a Friday pmMoseley Road depot opened January 1907 and Kyotts Lake Road was taken over by the BCT from the CBT at the same time.
..........but we are now steaming into thread drift.
Two photos of the back of 22 Blews Street (presumably the one in the Newtown area) and the condition of these buildings contrast with the those in #926
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The notice on the door is mentioned earlier in #767
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ourtyards-and-yards-of-brum.40378/post-566377
Maurice, I've just been looking at the 1939 register and I find that not only was my grandparents living at 5/15 Barton's Bank but my father's sister and her husband and children, James and Ada Biddle, Victor and Vera, were living at number 17
Williamstreeter,
If we are talking about the Bartons Bank which ran through to Rifle Crescent, it was redeveloped in the mid-1960s. Three tower blocks now stand on the site. I was born in my grandmother's house at 2/15 and knew the Gibsons at 5/15 well and vice versa. What address were you living at from 1976-1996?
Maurice
Hi, My family, the Carleys lived in Chequers Walk around 1919. Great Grandma Carley had a 'shop', but I imagine it was a front room filled with produce to sell. My Grandma and Mum lived there in the 1920s too. They seemed to work for Jones and Barclay, which was round the corner.Has anyone ever seen a photo of Chequers Walk? One of my relatives were there around 1880, but I have never seen a photo. I think it was only a tiny place.
we lived in terrable conditions uptill 1970. then had a propper house. with bath room.thanks everyone..so pleased that you think this if a good idea for a new thread...sue you would be surprised just how many families were still living in unsuitable housing well into the late 70s..villa street where i grew up from the age of 5 to 18 was not demolished until the 80s and that street was first cut round about 1850 possably a bit earlier....have sorted a few more pics out for scanning tomorrow...too tired tonight as ive been doing a spot of decorating and i nodded off earlier lol..
lyn
Hi, My family, the Carleys lived in Chequers Walk around 1919. Great Grandma Carley had a 'shop', but I imagine it was a front room filled with produce to sell. My Grandma and Mum lived there in the 1920s too. They seemed to work for Jones and Barclay, which was round the corner.
The backs of 32 - 33, Cliveland Street. That box above the window is in an awkward place perhaps there was access through the wall from the attic.
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The fronts of 30 - 33, Cliveland Street. Using long exposure the cameraman asked the children to stand very still but it looks like they did not.
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i like to see which houses have been added on,and patched by different brick work. there has beena lot of foot traffic on that stepHouses in Court 2, Rea Street. They are in very poor condition and note the worn doorstep. The photographer has again put his equipment case in the pic ...
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