I find it hard to believe that this is later than the 1950`s. Surely people didn`t live in such terrible conditions in the 60`s? I can`t remember such slums as in the photo? I spent most of my time in Erdington, Aston & Lozells. In the early 60`s I had to live with my sister in Lozells for a while & i thought that not having a bathroom was terrible but it was far from a slum as in that photo.
Smudger - I can't speak from personal experience but (and I think this might have been posted before) have a look at this Birmingham Mail article about the conditions in the 1960s https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/wh...irmingham-streets-poverty-1960s-poor-11800488I find it hard to believe that this is later than the 1950`s. Surely people didn`t live in such terrible conditions in the 60`s? I can`t remember such slums as in the photo? I spent most of my time in Erdington, Aston & Lozells. In the early 60`s I had to live with my sister in Lozells for a while & i thought that not having a bathroom was terrible but it was far from a slum as in that photo.
I must have lived a sheltered life, for i never encountered any slums. The nearest thing to `slum` was my lovely sisters house with no bathroom & a loo at the bottom of the garden. I seem to remember they got moved to a high rise flat in Newtown. The house where i lived in Erdington was a large 4 bed house, with bathroom & toilet. I lived there till i was `disowned` at the age of 17 & went to live with my sister in Lozells. Unsettling times but i`m glad i experienced them. Made me realise, you don`t know what you`ve got till you lose it.Smudger - I can't speak from personal experience but (and I think this might have been posted before) have a look at this Birmingham Mail article about the conditions in the 1960s https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/wh...irmingham-streets-poverty-1960s-poor-11800488
I recognise 2 of my cousins.smudger i lived in lozells from 58 to 72 eldest of 6 and that sort of housing was well around into at least the middle 70s even in parts of that area...i should know as myself and my family were not moved from our poorly built house until 1972 and i know of people who were still living in my old street in the 80s having said that i would not have swapped a min of my time there for all the tea in china although it would have been our mom and dad that bore the stresses of the hardship of material things...love was never an issue..a lot depends on the areas you lived in...some areas where these photographs were taken were pretty grim and dire places to live in..after many years of fighting for better houses and conditions folk just gave up in the end..a lot had no fight left in them as their houses were so bad no amount of trying could make them look any better....as there seems to be doubt on the date of some of these photos postie did give us some information about bob moore the photographer also when and roughly where these photos were taken which you could have missed when he posted the first photograph so i have copied and pasted it below
lyn
Bob Moore was born in Birmingham in 1940 and has lived all his life in and
around the city.
Many of the photos are from the 1960s and many of the buildings and streets photographed from this time have now disappeared from the face of Birmingham, the majority seem to have been for the general benefit of the citizens of the city.
If we are not very careful however, nostalgia can be an uneasy bedfellow. It can easily influence ones memory. It is too easy to forget that, in truth, this was a time of real poverty and hardship in the inner city area.
Dedicated to all the friendly and co-operative people of Birmingham he photographed.
I have a collection of black and white photos taken by Bob during the sixties, unfortunately they
are not named locations although some have been discovered by some clever detective work.
Bob did say that they were taken in the inner city areas, mainly Balsall Heath, Highgate,Ladywood and areas in that general direction.
With a bit of luck some of the faces or places may be recognised..
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Thi was defo Ladywood. xsmudger i lived in lozells from 58 to 72 eldest of 6 and that sort of housing was well around into at least the middle 70s even in parts of that area...i should know as myself and my family were not moved from our poorly built house until 1972 and i know of people who were still living in my old street in the 80s having said that i would not have swapped a min of my time there for all the tea in china although it would have been our mom and dad that bore the stresses of the hardship of material things...love was never an issue..a lot depends on the areas you lived in...some areas where these photographs were taken were pretty grim and dire places to live in..after many years of fighting for better houses and conditions folk just gave up in the end..a lot had no fight left in them as their houses were so bad no amount of trying could make them look any better....as there seems to be doubt on the date of some of these photos postie did give us some information about bob moore the photographer also when and roughly where these photos were taken which you could have missed when he posted the first photograph so i have copied and pasted it below
lyn
Bob Moore was born in Birmingham in 1940 and has lived all his life in and
around the city.
Many of the photos are from the 1960s and many of the buildings and streets photographed from this time have now disappeared from the face of Birmingham, the majority seem to have been for the general benefit of the citizens of the city.
If we are not very careful however, nostalgia can be an uneasy bedfellow. It can easily influence ones memory. It is too easy to forget that, in truth, this was a time of real poverty and hardship in the inner city area.
Dedicated to all the friendly and co-operative people of Birmingham he photographed.
I have a collection of black and white photos taken by Bob during the sixties, unfortunately they
are not named locations although some have been discovered by some clever detective work.
Bob did say that they were taken in the inner city areas, mainly Balsall Heath, Highgate,Ladywood and areas in that general direction.
With a bit of luck some of the faces or places may be recognised..
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The girl at the back (tallest) is the twin to 'Ballerina Girl' Ballerina Girl was Lorraine & her twin at the back of pic was called Wendy, When I said two I was thinking of the twin ha ha no hope for me, If poss i'd like to put up some more pics (if I can manage it) taken the same time 1964.
errrr when I said the girl at the back I didn't mean the one far back slightly out of focus I was referring to the girl attached to the group but the tallest1 (bet I've made it more confusing now. xhello oneofsixteen how wonderful that 2 of yours cousins are on that photos if you dont mind me asking could you point them out please
lyn