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Old street pics..

Donbogen said:
Yes i recall my nan saying that Sadly it was common among other trades but she said rag and bone men valued the well being of there horses
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I recall one of my earliest memories, the milkman's horse was white, mum gave used to give him a carrot . Circa1961. The flower cart horse was skewbald and the rag and bone man's horse was a fine beast. Chocolate brown cob with lots of feathering. He always picked his feet up. They were a Romany family I went to school with their son later. By coincidence was at a Christening in Bulkington where this family's child was baptised just after the one I was at and they paraded the carriages trotting fast the horses in ribbons all fine animals. That would have been mid 70s. But what happened when they get old I hate to think.
 
Thankyou its great to see our family home on the Leopold street pics we lived at number 71 the one with the lamp post outside next to the shop which belonged to Mr and Mrs Harris I worked there after school and weekends
 
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The photo from Yardley was interesting little more than country lane. When I moved to Great Barr in 1951 ish the Brooklin farm was still a farm, now the site of the Brooklin Technical College, the Aldridge Rd. and Beacon Rd. were still country lanes for a lot of their length as was the Queslet Rd and Newton Rd. If you went into parts of Birmingham a lot of the roads were still very narrow and cobbled especially round the jewellery quarter and gun quarter. The I think it was The Mineries between the two sections of Lewises had wooden cobbles to reduce the noise from horses hooves and the steel bands fitted to the wheels.

The kings and queens of England did nothing for me in the school history, but social history would have been far more interesting, all we touched was a short section on the Black Country.

My childhood is now a museum display...

Brian
 
I was working for Brooklyn Garage when Aldridge Road was widened to accommodate buses and the canal bridge removed, the garage belonged to the Brooklyn farming family member John Maybury, the house next door to his sister
His sister sold the land on the next junction to a company called The First National Housing Trust for housing but to Maybury's dismay they quickly sold it on to Petrofina who built a filling station, direct competition to his Esso forecourt.
 
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Eric I lived in Pinewood Close so Brooklin Garage was my local garage spent many minuts cursing your air machine that pinged until the presures equalised in the tyre and the needle on the guage jumped up and down. Yourself or the garage on Greenhelm Rd were the only garages in the area. Before the one you mentioned oposite the Drakes Drum pub opened.

Brian
 
hi dave do you have a location for that photo...i can see it says on reece shop...ye oldest shop in looks like birmingham but its not spelt birmingham...could just be the old way of spelling it..maybe a bit of research is needed in looking up the reece shop name and also grenvilles warehouse ..great photo

lyn
 
Astoness said:
hi dave do you have a location for that photo...i can see it says on reece shop...ye oldest shop in looks like birmingham but its not spelt birmingham...could just be the old way of spelling it..maybe a bit of research is needed in looking up the reece shop name and also grenvilles warehouse ..great photo

lyn
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It looked vaguely familiar from an old photo I've seen before - is it the Law Court's end of Corporation Street somewhere?
 
MWS said:
Reece Bros are listed at both 100 New St and 1 Bull St corner of High St in the newspapers.
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thanks mark i thought it had a look of bull st about it...what threw me was the way birmingham was spelt on the reece shop..looks like it spelt berryngham as said earlier maybe an earlier way of spelling it

lyn
 
A gem of a photo: very atmospheric: CITY CENTRE. The Old Lamb House pub (on extreme left), Bull St; at its junction with High St/Dale End, circa1886…Notice how the word Birmingham is still spelt the medieval way on the shop front! (Bermyngham).
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berniew said:
View attachment 87504Tasco Lifford sports pavilion 1938 Iassume it means Lifford lane the pavilion has been demolished don't know where
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berniew said:
View attachment 87504Tasco Lifford sports pavilion 1938 Iassume it means Lifford lane the pavilion has been demolished don't know when
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My grandad was the last grounds keeper for this pavilion. He lived in the house on the right side of the pic. He was Albert Carter. He retired in 1989 and the house on site was a council home and given as part of the job. He retired in Doversley Road and sadly passed away in December 1991 aged 65. He was groundskeeper from 1968 and raised his 5 children in the house. I am sure people will remember him.
 
Astoness said:
dennis howell tries out his loud hailer at the back of his coventry road committee rooms dated 1961

and 2 pics of church lane aston dated 1969

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Yes I remember good old Dennis Howell , I remember he got the nickname a man for all seasons when he was in Parliament one minute he was the minister for rain after a good downpour for some weeks . Or after a bad snowfall somewhere he was minister for snow, he had to have a hat for all weathers
 
Astoness said:
cuckoo road nechells dated 1967..note the old anderson shelter in the garden..

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hingeston st dated 1967..showing the rose and crown pub where our dad was living from a few weeks old..this street was also used in the shooting of the docu/film cathy come home..
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As a nipper I used to call it Indegestion St , before I knew how it was spelt
 
Dionysius//88 said:
I've walked along St Peter's Place and Ledsam St qiuite a few times
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Attachments 117397 brings back so many memories, when my son was four I had to take him to what was then the children's Hospital Five ways, we walked past that cobbled stoned oldy worldly what became a antique shop, with different sellers, renting space, as I'm saying this, in front of me is an original solid pine chest with three large drawers and two at the top, no nails all lined drawers, on the way back from the children's, l couldn't resist going in and fell for the chest bought for the pricey sum of £48.00. then the small shop by the telephone box, the lady who ran that also had a stall in the old rag market, selling pottery glassware and nicknacks, nice lady. Thank you for the memories it brings back.
 
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