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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
 
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