devonjim
master brummie
It was clearly 3 on the original. Couldn't read the Ridgacre Rd.I thought possibly PORTLAND ROAD 7 but I am slightly more inclined to thinking RIDGACRE ROAD 3 which predated the 3A now the 24
It was clearly 3 on the original. Couldn't read the Ridgacre Rd.I thought possibly PORTLAND ROAD 7 but I am slightly more inclined to thinking RIDGACRE ROAD 3 which predated the 3A now the 24
I thought possibly PORTLAND ROAD 7 but I am slightly more inclined to thinking RIDGACRE ROAD 3 which predated the 3A now the 24
Thanks very muchBob, I have converted your images to JPEGs and rotated them so they are easier to view. I have also enlarged on the bus, but the detail is too fine.
The original is extremely blurred, while I don't want to argue with your dating, the Valentines serial number is clearly recorded in their archives as 1927, but they could have reissued and even rephotographed but kept the same serial number. Nothing is straightforward in the postcard world.Its too blurred & pixellated to see clearly - the original or a better scan might be better - but I think the route shown is "PORTLAND ROAD 7". The bus is one of the 1930/1 AEC Regents, and Colmore Row is one way so its post 1933.
A postcard view of Lichfield Road.
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Our road has 'high-level' lighting (yellow) and 'low-level' lighting (white LED). The low-level lighting is a relatively new thing, we have gone through many generations of high-level lighting, heads, arms and poles being replaced singly, in pairs and altogether.Another pre-1915 view. A curiosity is the street lighting. There are low level lamp posts with gas lighting and high level lamps. I wonder if the high level were new fangled electrical ones? Presumably they would be difficult to service and light at that height by the lamp lighter - assuming there was one of course.
The high-level lighting in Lichfield Road would have been serviced using tower wagons, something that survived into the early 1960s I think in Birmingham. Nowadays the low-level lighting doesn't even have an arm to prop a ladder against. Either a hydraulic platform would be used or, in the case of the ones in our street, they are made to swing down to the horizontal.
Another pre-1915 view. A curiosity is the street lighting. There are low level lamp posts with gas lighting and high level lamps. I wonder if the high level were new fangled electrical ones? Presumably they would be difficult to service and light at that height by the lamp lighter - assuming there was one of course.
wonder if the men are looking in the pdsa.A postcard view of Lichfield Road.
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