couple of pics of porchester st folks....if anyone has anymore would love to see them.
pic 1 shows alma st school on the right...i went there for the first 6 months of my school years
lyn
another 2 i have...pic 2 shows numbers 73 to 97
lyn
gosh that brings back memories marie...me and our kid used to go around the bomb pecks as we called them collecting the tat ...used an old pram...dad used to burn off the outer casing in the back garden..let the copper cool down then wrap them into balls.then as you say..off the scrap yard..6 kids in our family and we didnt have a lot of money but never went short of the things that mattered....very happy days indeed..oh and when we lived in villa st we used to get a leg over the vine pub back wall and pass over the empties then take them round the front to the pubs outdoor and get the money off them lol..
lyn
Hi John, My father (Arthur Leroux) and brother (Jeff) both worked at J R Pearson (shopfitters), in the 50s and 60s. When we moved to Cannock in 1962 dad used to use 2 buses and the train to get to work. JohnUsed to go to a firm in Porchester Street called J.R.Pearson, used to make nameplates and such, this was in the middle 50's.
yes i got it, and newtons lived next door, wow we used to go tatting when the houses were being knocked down, i was 10, used to take copper and lead to the scrap yard, in the bottom of my dolls pram hahahaha great years
hi marie do you rember some one who ran around with you a naughtonHi i remember the wood yard on the right picture, forget his name who owned it but George and Rita home lived next door. and the factory in the left picture, we used to jump the roofs as kids, and my brother alfy fell and was hanging from iron bars, if he had of fell he would have gone straight into the machines, and there used to be a green grocers at the bottom of the road, fantastic memories.
marie moore