Hi Kev I used to be your next door neighbour, you actually lived at no. 55 frankfort st. The factory facing where we lived was indeed john e. mapplebecks, my uncle jimmy lyndon worked there and still maaged to be late occaisionally.The pub on the corner of frankfort street and hospital was the dolphin the none one the cnr. of frankfort & russell was the justice . thera was also one on the cnr. frankfort and summer lane was I think the birmingham arms .i remember your parents am glad to hear they're ok
here you go gill the dophin...can you tell me is that hospital st to the left of the pic...
lyn
i remember carol singing outside this pub, my uncle Jimmy used to take the hat round......good memories, that was about 1955....wow time flies
Albert Clayton
sydney, australia
i was born at 59 frankfort st 1946 left 1954.mapplebecks was the factory and shop was days.what memories.remember tony shuttleworth.and the weetmans lived at 61 am amazed houses were still standing so long..i thought they were condemned when we were there.shared toilet with 8 families,also brewhouse.had great coronation party with piano.s wheeled onto cobbles.then into factory in the evening.loved the bomb site off gee st.,called it ,the old peck?such poverty but such fun.went to cowper st school,and lived to tie big rope onto lamp post while a grown up turned it and dozens of kids skipped for ages.also remember blackie raven with his peri winkle barrowHi, does anyone remember much about Frankfort street? I lived as a child at 55 Frankfort street--a back-to-back council house, from 1957 until 1965. I remember a noisey Non-Ferous metals factory located right across the street from our door. There was the corner shop whose name neither I, nor my parents can remember. There were a few pubs on the corner too. Someone suggested they may have been The Great Bull, The little Bull, and The Trees. I remember the smell of beer wafting through the windows as I walked up the hill to my nursery school.
There were still bombed out buildings along the street, too, and we were forever for later...
Anyone have any memories or thoughts?
Thanks,
Kevin