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It could be but even at that it is an unemployed asset that has a cost associated with it that will be passed along in price or taxes depending upon ownership. In industry we have a metric "asset utilization" be it money, plant & equipment etc., if they are idle someone pays, they have to work...

Thought the same thing! I also wondered why the ground like this and other sites stay idle for so long before being built on or productively utilized. Here in TN (not putting on a pedestal) when a building or site gets knocked down and cleared, almost the next day new construction starts...

Shame on you :)! I did experience being denied entry once after I bought the ticket. I think it was up to the collector/agent. They must have been having a bad day!

Weren’t they/are they still messey!

That shop used to be a standard UK butcher’s shop, can’t remember the name.

So disappointing, circa 1958/62 many a Friday and Saturday night is used to take the 29 night service from Snow Hill at mid night to 2.00am to that intersection and walk home without a care. If I missed the stop of traffic light I would stay on to the Villa Cross!

Oaks or Oak Station is now a suburb of Philadelphia and is/was at the junction of two navigable waterways, primarily running through Philadelphia which back in the day was a manufacturing center in south east Pennsylvania.

Very well said Paul!

Excellent photos! Every time I look at photos from an engineering perspective, I marvel at the level of effort it took to build and maintain that over 150 years ago. Our for fathers were good, let’s hope that the next generation can measure up! I’m talking about making physical thing as in...

Point very well taken! When I first came to the US in 1962 I worked with an Irish immigrant (was a denture technician in Ireland) who had a son older than me. Over time we became friends and got to know him well. He and his wife said numerous times that many left the old country to put the past...

Just a little piece of rhetorical information: the fact that they left the Black Country and settled in Ohio and Pennsylvania , two states with similar old time early manufacturing environments. Because those states are large there are also some beautiful areas. Would the initial attraction be...

Yes we used that broken white stone that some used for flower borders. And some before the stone was broken, it was a dire need :cool:

A couple of my grandchildren also found him scary!

Great point regarding the number of records and the accuracy of any records. Much would depend on social standing, very few would be offered to the lower status and certainly the accuracy of such would be marginal, in par5 because of lack of interest.

Excellent points there. I have learned that so very clearly in my own lifetime.

Went to the address and listing by various brokerage firms who are required to post the “built date”. I have friend whose business is in same town who also confirmed.

This is our old house. built in 1929. They still build like that and the one in Ohio today. Most changes are internal.

And that is typical of houses built in that period. Possibly the windows have been changed but basically the same house.

That house was built in 1924, hope that helps.

Janice, it very well could be. It is typical of the designs back then with a detached garage at the back. We lived in a house of that era. I have a friend who lives in that area of Ohio. I will see what he thinks, but I’m quite sure that would be the one.