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They Were Caught In Our Old Street Pics...

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When I type tyres into the reply box it is red under-lined, but when I type tires it is accepted, so I must have an American spell-checker in my laptop.
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Don't have that problem on the ipad as dictionary set to English UK, not used the laptop much since buying the ipad last year but think I also changed Windows 8 to English UK.
 
No I don't have a problem with my ipad which I use most of the time. I've just noticed that my ipad has red underlined ipad ... In this this reply !
 
Your iPad was probably telling you that you should have put a capital P. I thought that the spell check was on the forum and that they had used an American one as we did not previously have a spell check here. I have a problem with Windows Mail which came with Windows Vista as it has an American spell check but the English spell check works in Word.
 
I wonder if the "Tires" on the front window is a trade name (looks like Ti res) - conjecture here.
And the english tyres is on the side window

From the 1700's English spelling was standardised after recognised dictionaries were published.
English spelling followed Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755).
American spellings followed Noah Webster's Dictionary (1828)

Webster (US) proposed many standards himself (and some never caught on).
English spelling was influence by Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings.
So spelling changes in the UK had little effect on today's American spellings and vice-versa.
 
Maybe Pedley was an American supplier and John Bull was of course a British company, but I mainly remember John Bull for their puncture repair kits.
 
I saw a 'scrap man' today in his white van, not a bit like this 'scrap man' from the 1970's. Just thinking, 1970 seems like only yesterday to me !
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That picture would be nice in a frame.
I remember them sellinf second hand goods from prams on The Hill, in Dublin, circa 77 and fruit by the Halfpenny Bridge and in Moor St. My mate's mum said was because they didn't have a licence and they could do a quick runner.
Our scrap man gets stopped by the police because of his piled up load in his open back lorry, he blows a squeaky trumpet and sets the dogs in the area off.When I first heard him I thought he was one of those preachers, who blow a trumpet. We had twin religious sect neighbours like that, ruddy silly foowells Nan called them.
 
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I wonder if the "Tires" on the front window is a trade name (looks like Ti res) - conjecture here.
And the english tyres is on the side window

From the 1700's English spelling was standardised after recognised dictionaries were published.
English spelling followed Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755).
American spellings followed Noah Webster's Dictionary (1828)

Webster (US) proposed many standards himself (and some never caught on).
English spelling was influence by Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings.
So spelling changes in the UK had little effect on today's American spellings and vice-versa.
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I guess that's why we have Adwick le Street, and Poulten le Fylde, and NEwton Le Willows, and a bit nearer to Brum Enville. I know the nobility spoke only French at one time.
 
We occasionally had a scrap man on a horse and cart, he offered really nice goldfish and balloons :) but my Mother always said no :(
 
You had to be alert getting off trams in the old days, watching out for the cars passing on the inside. That lady stands in the way of that car is she saying something ?
That man crossing the road looks like he is in his own little world !
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This tranquil 1950 scene shows the only tandem I've seen in a forum old street pic. Never rode one myself they were probably tricky !
Coventry Road and Arden Oak Road Sheldon 1950
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oldMohawk said:
You had to be alert getting off trams in the old days, watching out for the cars passing on the inside. That lady stands in the way of that car is she saying something ?
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On the far left Mohawk, look you! The very first turban in Birmingham!

The woman too.....having conveniently left her car there earlier. The very first 'park and ride' traffic project in the city. Either that, or the tram wouldn't have got up Hill Street carrying her!
 
oldMohawk said:
Well spotted Richie, I'm trying to think what that rather plain building behind him is ?
I will have to look it up.
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Its the Navigation Street end of John Bright Street. The wooden fenced area became (in my time) the Scala Banqueting Suite, later to be a casino.
 
Maybe long ago some folks wanted to be in an old street pic but had a long wait for action from a photographer with his old camera so they leaned on something.
Seven leaning men, but only one lady and she just wanted to be in the pic !
I recently noticed the forum's earliest 'leaner' below - click on him if you want to ....
 
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Thanks MoHawk for that.
Interesting that it's mostly blokes leaning in our pics .... Infact they were expert-leaners :)
Whereas most women wouldnt be caught leaning ~ might be seen as inappropriate - I guess.

Dunno really ... just thinking outloud.
 
Mum said ladies don't sweat, they perspire they didn't go in to pubs either, my mum wouldn't go up to the bar even when ladies did venture in to pubs and clubs.
So I guess as you say they didn't lean either. Apart from Eileen. Eilleen O'Ver.:devilish:
 
Maybe it was not 'lady-like' to lean, whereas men had 'street-cred' to maintain although they didn't know that back then. I recently tried leaning like the Maypole bus conductor - most awkward it was !
 
I was in Dublin with my mate's auntie and we walked to catch the 'DART' and they were some diggers leaning on spades and she said to them, "them shovels stand up on their own you know", and they laughed and when we came back again, she said, "and yer still leaning on them shovels" and they were!
 
The Full lean is with the foot across and arms folded too then ? Pondering the next move :)

Men seem to slouch but ladies never seem too - whys that ?
Perspire and Glisten Jayell - lol - good one :)
 
I think the big puzzle in this thread is the man below. How in 1964 could he run across Corporation Street dressed like that wearing sunglasses while no one else in the pic appears to look at him ? Well maybe the Midland Red bus driver saw him !
 
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I don't think his appearance is that unusual for the era. I guess I used to go around with a similar look around that time. I'd probably run like that as well if the E Type I'd nicked had just run out of petrol. :friendly_wink:
 
Two similarly dressed girls pushing their similar prams in this nice old pic of Slade Road, are they racing ? A boy on the right seems in a hurry !

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