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Not sure if this has been on before. A BBC film from 1971 promoting all the Council has done and would do (!!) for the city. I wonder if any of the children being lectured at a school in one part of the film are members of the forum

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5ZtedkhAk&ab_channel=BBCArchive
 
Not sure if this has been on before. A BBC film from 1971 promoting all the Council has done and would do (!!) for the city. I wonder if any of the children being lectured at a school in one part of the film are members of the forum

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5ZtedkhAk&ab_channel=BBCArchive
Like the comments in the film about "the people not being dirty" - how true that was! Also the girl carefully coming down the staircase modelled on the north face of the Eiger - can remember a similar staircase in our back to back which frightened the bejaesus out of a 5 year old!
 
the photos are all at the back of Aldridge rd Streetly 1948 ~ 52. One of Bar Beacon
 

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I’m guessing it’s all shot at the same place but I could be wrong. It’s not actually stated in the film where the incinerator is but I grew up about 500 yards away from it and recognised it instantly. I’d be interested to know where the sofa was collected from, it looks like a very well-to-do area. Moseley? Bournville?
I think you are right about it being Lifford Lane depot, back in the 1950,s on a sunday afternoon when no one was at work there, a few of us lads would walk along the canal and climb over into that council depot, cannablise a few scrap push bikes and make them into rideable bikes, some of those bikes were used for years afterwards and passed down to siblings.
Happy Days.
 
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