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Courtyards and yards of brum
- Thread starter Astoness
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sorry bernie i meant st georges place..ive edited my last post..there is a thread for st geos place so i will post it on there as well..
crikey bernie..although i dont look at the e papers as i dont know what they are lol i am honoured to have my name even mentioned along side the great phylis nicklin.... she was a fine photographer who ive long admired..
lyn
and not forgetting keith berry bernie...
pudding
master brummie
Hi Lyn, and all, a few more pic of our old yard
A view from the boundary wall looking towards Long Acre.
A View from the middle of the yard looking towards the boundary wall.
Looking left from the doorstep of number 3 back of 62 Malvern hill road.
The View a head from the doorstep.
Part of Malvern hill road taken from the corner of Long Acre (my first car with L plates on.. lol. )
Lyn the only reason I had these photos is because I was trying out an old camera that my dad was given by a work mate.
the yard was once all blue bricks before the council replaced them with slabs and small gardens in 1960/61.
Pud
A view from the boundary wall looking towards Long Acre. A View from the middle of the yard looking towards the boundary wall. Looking left from the doorstep of number 3 back of 62 Malvern hill road. The View a head from the doorstep. Part of Malvern hill road taken from the corner of Long Acre (my first car with L plates on.. lol. )Lyn the only reason I had these photos is because I was trying out an old camera that my dad was given by a work mate.
the yard was once all blue bricks before the council replaced them with slabs and small gardens in 1960/61.
Pud
oh wow pud you really are so very lucky to have these photos because once our old houses are gone they are gone forever..yes we have our memories which no one can take away from us but to have pics to go with them is just wonderful...i bet you are glad now that you tried out that old camera that did if i may say an excellent job..many thanks for sharing them with us all..
lyn
lyn
pudding
master brummie
Here is the last of them all I have
The door of our old house, notice the name stone above.
Taken from the middle of the entry.
The Rent book/card for the house.
View form the street my grandmothers house at the front.
Looking down the road towards Long Acre (you can just see part of the new building on Long Acre that is there today)
thats my lot folks, I found out the camera had a fault that is why there is a white spot on the right side of the photos, it had a pinhole in the bellows.
Pud.
The door of our old house, notice the name stone above. Taken from the middle of the entry. The Rent book/card for the house. View form the street my grandmothers house at the front. Looking down the road towards Long Acre (you can just see part of the new building on Long Acre that is there today)thats my lot folks, I found out the camera had a fault that is why there is a white spot on the right side of the photos, it had a pinhole in the bellows.
Pud.
Since this posting recently, I've been doing a lot of page-turning and find that the original publishing of the Betty Burden feature came in the publication 'Picture Post' dated 13 Jan 1951. I've seen the article too by way of access to our Higher Education facilities this end of the Black Country.
One should be able to access the journal when the new library opens in September, but the remainder of the photographs are just doorstep-and-parlour closeups like the photo we saw originally. "Betty Going Shopping" isn't in the feature and was obviously among a bunch of photographs taken by Bert Hardy which were then at the time 'snapped up' by the likes of the big American photo-album publishers such as Corbis, Magnum, and Getty for one of the glossy magazines at the time which Picture Post wasn't. These city-centre better quality shots could all be in different hands by now.
As far as the text is concerned, Betty is referred to as aged 17, working as a hairdresser in the children's section of a department store (Lewis's) and she lives in Cregoe Street.
Cregoe Street is referred to as "the broken side of the hill" in Edgbaston, "a ripe example of a declining 19th Century industrial portion of the city (of Birmingham) as can be found". To add a bit of charm to the locality, the article says that "despite the rotten heart-breaking fabric Betty lives in the most serene and confident provincial type of housing'.
Looking at the weather conditions in the original article, would imagine the Summer of 1950 was the photographs date, if anyone has a Register of Cregoe Street to confirm the evidence.
chinnychin
knowlegable brummie
thought provoking pictures astoness, my mom lost her first two kids to diphtheria in the1930,s while in angelina street
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Wendy
Guest
Great photo's pudding thanks for sharing them with us. Times gone now saved by you.
paul stacey
master brummie
So great to see these old photo's of Brum Bernie, please keep downloading.paul