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John Ball and F Leonard Ball photographic collection

Astoness

Astoness

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i was looking through an old 2013 thread and spotted this link on one of the posts...looks like some great photos on it..i cant recall seeing this before but the owner is a john ball and reading it looks like the photos were taken by his dad leonard ball...just going to plough through them

lyn


JOHN BALL AND F LEONARD BALL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
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Astoness said:
i was looking through an old 2013 thread and spotted this link on one of the posts...looks like some great photos on it..i cant recall seeing this before but the owner is a john ball and reading it looks like the photos were taken by his dad leonard ball...just going to plough through them

lyn

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They're great, don't you just love pictures of Brum in the 60s.
 
Thanks so much for those Lynn. Those pics of the Lickey Hills brings back so many memories for me when our neighbours used to take my brother and I regularly. That was over 80 years ago !! The thought of the tram rocking away down the Bristol Road with us always in the open front on top deck. Whose bothered about health and safety ???
 
A wonderful collection of photos. John Ball, photographer, took the 1960s photos and his father, (Frank) Leonard Ball (commercial artist), took those shown in the link of the 1930s. Please note John Ball is the copyright holder of this collection.
 
Thanks for unearthing that, Lyn. How do such wonderful things come to be buried and forgotten about, even with our well-structured site? We almost need a determined effort to comb through some of the older threads and "bump" them up, Facebook style. Great credit to the gentleman concerned: he has created an excellent website.

Have to say that the images confirm the memory that the middle of Brum wasn't a bad place at all in the 1960s. A bit more imagination at the time with regard to conversion to modern needs, an external clean-up and what could some of these streets have looked like today?

Chris
 
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