Although the road crossing sweeper has gone since the introduction of Tarmac, the street cleaner is alive and well. Saw two today in one street. Viv
PETROL PUMP ATTENDANTS still around in the sticks.
The bus conductor has not far off disappeared either!
Come to that, are there any bundy clocks about any more?
Maurice
The coal man was a sight to behold for me as a boy in 1950s Sparkbrook..........
i was a park keeper.at week ends. i worked for bham parks dept. as a tractor driver, and was sent to parks were the keepers was sick or on holiday. not nice too much aggro.Park keepers, don't see them anymore..
there is one in porthmadog.stillPet Shops. which sold gold fish, jerbals, rabbits, they also sold bags of dog biscuits and canaries, budgies etc.
paul
furring was due to lime,in hard water.the rolling around of the items put in the kettel stopped it sticking. electric irons suffer'd from furring. as people called it. washing machines still do there is a tv add. for a chemical. that stops it it.The theory was that the furring was attracted to the coiled wire. Don't recall furring was that big a problem with Brum water.
Nan had a mangle which broke all the new plastics buttons and bent the metal ones. My aunt who ran a children's home had her charges sent home from school as they couldn't afford to supply them with the uniform which included starched shirt collars. They had rubber ones which you wiped she said. I do remember the seperate collars fastned with a button at the back I think, and collar stiffeners.
Mum's 1st job was in a grocer's shop. She weighed the butte and patted it with wooden patters? They were grooved and smaller than table tennis bats. Some old ladied only wanted a tiny piece of butter which she would weigh and wrap in grease proof paper. Her 2nd job was in a metal bucket factory. I think they are mostly plastic now. They also made coal scuttles. Two of my mates' dads were a French polisher and a brass polisher. Did your mum write her name on the sheets Sylvia or did she sew them on or embroider them on?
And what officious fellows most of them were, give them a uniform and sometimes a bike and you thought the 3rd reich had been reformed.
yer i was 20 and could handle my self .back then i would put there lights out.so we had not much. aggroAlas, we now see the result of not having such Park Keepers.
I think they are afraid of being thumped or worse as I don't see much respect about. Not tarring everyone with the same brush though. My dad was a steward at Coventry City but the terraces got very violent. He gave up 1971.#229, "disappearing park keepers", this is just a sympton, of Modern Britain, to have things such as Parky's, and patrol crossing wardens, and other forms of behavioural controls, you need a disciplined and respectful society. Britain now has at least 2 generations who have never known any form of discipline or been taught any type of respect for others. When I was young it was endemic, in both infant, and junior school education. Paul
There is one in Cov too they sell rabbits and gunieapigs kittens and puppies. Not in great quantities. In a large cage with blankets or straw. One lot of animals at a time.there is one in porthmadog.still
Just a part of the famous 1000 trades for which the city was once famous.
My mother used to talk about one of her uncles who was a lamplighter, I've been trying to find out more about him but I'm struggling because I don't know which part of the family he came from.
He could be a Taylor or a Coughlin, those are direct family names but he could also be an in-law from either side.
As she used to say he lifted her on his shoulder and lent her his cap I can only guess she would have been very young at the time, she was born in 1909.
Any suggestions please?