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Some more of Bob Moore's photos of Brum's inner city from the mid '60s to the mid '70s.

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I could just not resist this is a super set of photos posted on Face Book by Angel Archer on the Old Pics of Brum page.

The narrative is refreshing and perfectly reflects the curse of the rose-tinted spectacles of a golden age that never was. Living and working in conditions like this was not a lifestyle choice or were they happy times for the adults. This was the exploitative poverty that working people endured, while doing so much, while others enjoyed an abundance doing very little.

Angel Archer says:

Some more of Bob Moore's photos of Brum's inner city
from the mid '60s to the mid '70s.
Many of the houses, shops & indeed streets
in these pictures have long vanished into history
or been transformed, hopefully for the better.
I say for the better
because the curse of nostalgia
is it tends to shade memory in a rosy glow;
colouring over the harsher truth that
for many of these people
this era was a long grind of
real hardship & abject poverty.

However,
Bob Moore didn't choose to document
his home town as some abstract academic
exercise, casting a remote, cold eye on the poor.
He took photographs of the people
for the people; to give them a document
of their lives when theirs were lives
they felt were ignored, marginilized
or forgotten.

To notice them.

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Ah yes!
Looks like those houses were saved from demolition ...
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The milk float has a Leicester registration number.

Dane Street Leicester
 

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244394196_1283526038775222_8134323018791393288_n.jpgThese are fabulous photographs, the grim weather and monochrome landscape hasn't dulled the kids' enthusiasm at making the best of poor circumstances. And the one inside the pub could have come straight from an 'Ansells Bittermen' advertisement.
 

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Wonderful photo's of a lost world, were those children happy playing on old bomb sites and building sites? absolutely they were because they were not mollycoddled like today so could climb and play anywhere they liked, now they can't even play conkers.
I had exactly that sort of childhood myself in the 1950's and never came to harm. And yes, there were just as many evil people about then as there are now.
 
Living in the Outer suburbs, the living conditions as seen in these pictures were only something we heard about or saw from the top of a bus or tram as it moved us from our home to town and back again. We must ensure they are saved and catalogued for future generations to see and understand that in the 1940s and 50s, even into the sixties we all knew what poverty was all about and how some lived in squalor, not to mention very evident racism, remember those signs in bedsit windows, to let, no dogs Irish or non whites very woke, it did not say it like that, imaginations and memories to the fore.
Bob
 
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