paul stacey
master brummie
I think it may well be a "GIG", Nico. paul
-
Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.
We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team
Old street pics..
- Thread starter Astoness
- Start date
brummie nick
master brummie
I think it might be a Milk Float.
Nick
Nick
I Am Nico
master brummie
They used to be small, the floats didn't they. My mate doesn't beleive me but I remember gas lamps, the horse drawn milk cart, veg cart and flower cart and the scrap cart. But I was interested only in the gee gee pulling it then. Mum used to give the milkman's horse a carrot. He was skewbald. This one looks chestnut to me.
paul stacey
master brummie
when a boy, "Waceden Milk" and "Scriven's bread", both were horse drawn, I remember waiting with dad in town near the Town hall, and watching the man with little 'A' ladder and pole, lighting the gas lamps, not so very long ago.paul
I Am Nico
master brummie
And me Paul. In Cov. The man who lit the lamps wasn't quite the ticket said dad. I am guessing about 1961. He put his ladder up to each one. They have 2 mock ones now in the old watchmaking quarter and these bend in half, I suppose to change the bulbs now. I don't know what bread it was but there was a Mother's Pride Bakery and lots of little private bakeries. I went to school with the rag and bone man's son. His horse was always well turned out, they were of Gypsy blood but they lived in a house.
I Am Nico
master brummie
Lovely photos Phil. I think they may be older than 1961 though. I remember the white type of milk float. They had similar one on Weston Supermare sands made to look like a helicopter pulled by a sturdy horse called Carol. I have a great memory for the past but not for now.My mate lived in an older quarter than me but treckoned they didn't have gas lamps in hs street.
paul stacey
master brummie
brilliant photo's #3282.paul
HEY Nico I hope you are not taking my name in vain for that donkey??
I Am Nico
master brummie
Neigh, she was a horse, Carolina, but I can remember some of the donkeys' names. Mandy, Noddy, Bob, Dixie and Daisy.I can't remember where I put my secs though just forked out an arm and a leg for a pair.
Fantastic Photo. I'm pretty sure this is the row of shops where I got my first job upon leaving school around 1980. If I'm correct, the shop underneath where the man is on the canopy was Kwik Save. The chimney you see is that of the Brighton Arms.
And then next door to that was Tesco, where I got my first job !
Phil, hope you're still reading this thread, but I've just done the first 70 pages now its time for bed, can't wait to continue this journey tomorrow. Just want to echo what somebody seems to have said on every page I've seen, and say thanks. The photos are brilliant, even for a relative youngster like me !
I Am Nico
master brummie
Carolina I meant specs not secs, I can't see for love nor money (nan) I remember having the runs on Enville or Highgate Common and went in this tatty old loo in desperation. I remember the poem on the door, "my xxxx are long I cannot see I have not brought my bra with me, that has stayed with me forever.
I Am Nico
master brummie
Pewster for a mo I thought that was Cov Precinct till I looked at some of the older buildings. Smart Brummie birds/wenches in the foreground but tje lghts look like cotton buds.
Love this picture, makes me think of the Lewis's record store where so many of my childhood purchases were made.
brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
Wasn't Lewis's record store in the Bull Street subway?. The Old Square subway precinct seemed in my opinion to be one of the more successful pedestrian underpasses in the City,this picture makes me almost wish we still had it.
You may be right and I'm getting my subways confused ( but these were the days when there were more of this type than the foot long ones with a free drink that todays kids relate to ) as thinking about it, the record shop was at the bottom of a ramp by the corner entrance to the store. This I think would have been next subway up, opposite corner bringing you up to corner of Rackhams ? As MWS said, this is the one with the route up to Harry Parkes, Law Courts, Childrens Hospital etc, the old Gaumont on Colemore Row in the background gives it away. The other thing about this subway is I remember the boozer above it on the same side as the Oasism Argos, Market, was it called the Cabin ?
These are my favourites of the lot. Living down on the Firs estate, the Beaufort was the first ever Cinema I was taken to as a kid, sometime very late 60's or early 70's. The other Cinema I would have frequented was the Capitol in Alum Rock which was by where my Grandparents lived. As for the Fox and Goose pub, it still stands today, and for me as a 16/17 year old around 1980/81, the back room Disco was the place to be ! The shops around the Fox and Goose were the usual lunchtime venue for myself and a lot of the Hodge Hill pupils, which led to some interesting altercations with some of the lads who also made their way there from the nearby Washwood Heath School.
Another great childhood memory, I'm loving you for these Phil. Once a week, shopping with Nan and Grandad, always got my sweets from here. They lived in Alum Rock, and at Grandads pace it was a good 20 minute adventure drive to get there in his old Morris Minor !
Those of you with a knowledge of maps may well help on this one. But if that is Alum Rock road bearing left ( towards the Pelham ) and Cotterills Lane continuing forward, my granparents lived on a road next right after the junction. In the late 60's , this was Bamford Road, when was this picture taken ? and would that be Bamford Road in this picture that you can just make out emerging ?
I will never know and cant even ask them as alas they are no longer here. But I wonder how long this café remained on Dolphin Road after 1952 ! I know I was born in the house at Dolphin Road in 1964. We left around 68/69 but I have no idea how long my parents had lived there ! My only real memory of the area being so young was visiting the barbers amongst the shops on the left of the Warwick Road just before the Greet Pub, but haven't seen a picture with these in them yet.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
pewster
I think the building is still there today but it's now a house. I suppose the business went in the early 70's when they closed off the Warwick Rd end of St Johns Rd as there would have been no passing business. Here are a few photos of the shops on Warwick Rd in Greet, perhaps not quite what you want but you should recognise them.
I think the building is still there today but it's now a house. I suppose the business went in the early 70's when they closed off the Warwick Rd end of St Johns Rd as there would have been no passing business. Here are a few photos of the shops on Warwick Rd in Greet, perhaps not quite what you want but you should recognise them.
