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Old street pics..

I could not find a 'Rea Street West' but it looks like Mike probably has the correct location on the maps in post#5344.
The oval court plate looks like 'Court 3' to me and I had wondered about 'Jacks Tea' and whether the Lime Juice they advertise was fresh ...:)
 
john knight said:
That's Rocky Lane, corner of Scholefield Street, Anthony's sweet shop on corner, just round the bend on left, Hughes paper shop and straight in front Nechells Green and the Beehive pub.
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Thank you John. It did look familiar, but just could not remember the name of the road, as it has been many years since I have been down that way.
 
oldMohawk said:
Shoothill have this pic tagged as 23 - 24 Rea Street West. A plate on the wall reads 'St Martins Place' and a Cigar Dealer has premises there.
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Kelly’s for around 1890 and 1900 show both St Martin’s Row and St Martin’s Place starting at 81 Cambridge Street. The Row finishes at St Peter’s Row but the Place goes on to Broad Street. This may suggest that from Cambridge Street down to St Peter’s Row opposite sides had different addresses.

No luck looking for a cigar dealer, so what would go with the ——ory?

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Pedrocut said:
Kelly’s for around 1890 and 1900 show both St Martin’s Row and St Martin’s Place starting at 81 Cambridge Street. The Row finishes at St Peter’s Row but the Place goes on to Broad Street. This may suggest that from Cambridge Street down to St Peter’s Row opposite sides had different addresses.

No luck looking for a cigar dealer, so what would go with the ——ory?

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I think it might be Chicory and Cigar Dealer but can't find that in Kelleys either
 
A photographer had set up his camera in Rea Street and some folks stood and looked at him. The house on the right is No 66 and the bricked-up derelict house on the far left is No 72. The second photo shows No 72 from a different viewpoint.
Numbers 66 - 71
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Numbers 72 - 71
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Shoothill have this pic tagged as Slum housing, Number 8 Court, Birchall Street, but on the left is part of a street sign which appears to be for Bishopsgate St. Also the large building on the right has, what at first glance, appears to a drain pipe but with a closer look it appears not. There is no outlet on to the pavement, 6 brackets fixing it, dark edges ... it looks strange !
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Morturn said:
That looks like rectangular cast iron rainwater downpipe to me, let into the brickwork. Often seen of rainwater pipe adjacent to pavements. It most likely ran under the blue brick paving’s in a cast iron duct to the kerb.
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Yes, in the pic in #5368 near the top of the building the slot can be seen in the wall and a length of the rectangular pipe on the pavement leans against the wall. I presume the landlord owns that nice car .... :)
 
1550911203491.pngRe-building Buckfast Abbey - during the 1920's - using timber supports and scaffold.
I am not sure when timber fell out of favour in the UK - I suspect timber was used during ww2 as steel was required for other purposes. The Far East still uses bamboo poles as scaffold.
 
Alan,

Spain still used bamboo scaffolding in 1969. On a business visit to Alicante in July of that year, I was horrified to see it, tied together with ropes, on a four storey building. There are still some dodgy practices here on Crete, though there are very few buildings taller than three storeys as it is an earthquake zone. But it doesn't stoop as far as bamboo scaffolding. Quite often it is two or three metal towers with loose timber planks bridging the gaps between them. Many ladders are made on site with a couple of lengths of 2 x 2 with short lengths of 2 x 1 nailed on to form the rungs.

I remember shortly after we arrived standing in a queue to get our medical care authorised and the guy in front was an Albanian with his arm in plaster and his head bandaged. When I asked him what had happened, he said simply "I fell off a building" !! :-)

Maurice
 
As an apprentice in the construction industry in the early 70’s I did some wooden scaffolding at college, just to learn how it was done. It was certainly out of use in the main industry by then.
 
Pedrocut said:
This could be part of the demo job, 3 to 7 in No1 Court Bishopsgate Street.
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It looks as this back terrace was part of the scheme that opened up some of worst back terraces in the early 1900's. They would demolish a house or pair of houses to the front of the terrace to let the air and light in and then renovate the premises and plumb water into each house instead of a central standpipe in the middle of the yard. Scaffolding of any sort wouldn't have been used for demolition on a site such as this in those days, it was obviously being used for renovation works.
 
pic on post 5365 and 5368 are of the same location..what i cant work out is what came first...the blocking up of the entrance to the court yard or the unblocking of it..no dates on the photos

lyn
 
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