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I think of those times when people sat so close to the fire it made their legs look so red and raw. Nice Photograph Lyn.

Phil it looks like Coleman Street but a lot was done by us kids. We used to make rabbit runs, a hole in the wall from one house to the next and so on to see what people had left behind.

That’s right David, they seemed to be unique to Birmingham or Aston to be more precise in the early 1900’s , they earned the name by sewing razor blades into the peak of their caps, using this as a weapon to slash the face of anyone they disagreed with to blind them. It is said that the police...

Phil. Moss. Thank you so much, I could never have figured that out for myself.

Turn-of-the-century Birmingham was home to the Peaky Blinders,fearsome street gangs described by city church workers as the worst "social, civic and Christian problem of our great city". Look further back and you find 18th century Britain staggering along Gin Alley. Alcoholism was the norm...

Many stars to the likes of Harry Tate, Vesta Tilley, Harry Lauder, Little Tich, Pavlova, Wilkie BardFlorrie Ford and a host of others appeared at the Royal Command Performance, But the highest paid comedienne and darling of the people , the queen of suggestive humour Marie Lloyd too suggestive...

Anyone know where MARTINEAU STREET was ? I am sure I have heard of it in the past

Probably should have been posted on the 1911 thread. TRAM ROUTES TO SAINT LAURENCE CHURCH.

I dont care as long as it will always be there.

Please May I Add.....Where it says " Air battalion of British Army formed " this is not the Royal Flying Corps as this was founded in the following year of 1912.

Around this time and up to the end of the First World War in hundreds of towns they had " Hiring Fairs " workers congregating in the street , farmhands were hired for a year. Intending shepherds wore a piece of wool in their hats, carters wore a twist of whipcord,a servant girl would carry a...

I could only think it may be a police station but could not guess where.

The caption reads, The Aston end of Gem Street c 1912-13 The woman holding the baby is Mrs Scott. The shop window shows an enticing display of sweets and groceries. I would say Christmas of 1912 by the trimmings at the top of the window and the shelf edge trimmings.

Estimated population England and Wales 36 million. Now 54 million Life expectancy for women 54, men 50. By 2011 expected to be 82 for women, 74 for men. Average family 2.8 children, now 1.8 100 centenarians, now 9,300 January Troops support Metropolitan police against armed gang who fight to...

Industrial unrest Between 1910 and 1914 Britain experienced a wave of industrial unrest. Wage cuts, poor working conditions, and rapid inflation (between 1889 and 1910 the cost of food had risen by 10 per cent and the cost of coal 18 per cent) left workers deprived and disgruntled. The various...

In 1902 George Barnes, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, formed the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pension. Barnes spent the next three years travelling the country urging this social welfare reform. The measure was extremely popular and was an...

Was there recession around this time ?

CAN ANYONE ADD TO THESE COMMENTS ? In 1912, there was quite a lot of industrial unrest in England. To halt a national pit strike, Asquith introduced a miners minimum wage bill in March. In May there was a London dock strike which lasted until August, there were frequent violent clashes with...

Could well be a wooden mould for the manufacture of a metal part.