hi there
I can say one thing like maggs it was a hard and poor working class area but people was working hard in those days
and yes it was a tough area as far as gangs of kids went ;but there was none of this carrying ons like today ;
it was hard to make ends meet and the houses back to backs and with there teracess and yards but neibour helped each other
it was never looked down and out of course times was hard for every body but we all worked i dare say there was the odd one out ;
such as cathy come home must to my surprize the film makers found some one but the street was never like they portrayed it never in a month of sundays ;
you go down there now its a complete disgrace the council want to regenerate theout skirts not the city for all these yuppies as we call them ;
with the expensive appartments as the big white house forgot the poor working class of today ;
even dudley rd and winson green ; if my memory serves me correct i think it was in the evening mail at the time in the years around late fifty or the early sixty period because of the over growding of the jail they was gonna do away with it andbuild a new one ;
i drove around old maggs area a week ago up pitford street and pased the old brokie school what an appaling condition ;
crab tree rd is as bad as ever at least it was clean and the proptrys was ingood condition ;
i see old r whites pop factory is all about little car dealers operating car repais more scrap cars pon the rd out side than repaired
onian best wishes , Astonian ;;
I can say one thing like maggs it was a hard and poor working class area but people was working hard in those days
and yes it was a tough area as far as gangs of kids went ;but there was none of this carrying ons like today ;
it was hard to make ends meet and the houses back to backs and with there teracess and yards but neibour helped each other
it was never looked down and out of course times was hard for every body but we all worked i dare say there was the odd one out ;
such as cathy come home must to my surprize the film makers found some one but the street was never like they portrayed it never in a month of sundays ;
you go down there now its a complete disgrace the council want to regenerate theout skirts not the city for all these yuppies as we call them ;
with the expensive appartments as the big white house forgot the poor working class of today ;
even dudley rd and winson green ; if my memory serves me correct i think it was in the evening mail at the time in the years around late fifty or the early sixty period because of the over growding of the jail they was gonna do away with it andbuild a new one ;
i drove around old maggs area a week ago up pitford street and pased the old brokie school what an appaling condition ;
crab tree rd is as bad as ever at least it was clean and the proptrys was ingood condition ;
i see old r whites pop factory is all about little car dealers operating car repais more scrap cars pon the rd out side than repaired
onian best wishes , Astonian ;;
