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paul stacey
master brummie
Quite so , Eric!! still, unpleasant, as those creatures are beautiful animals!!
Yes i recall my nan saying that Sadly it was common among other trades but she said rag and bone men valued the well being of there horses
I Am Nico
master brummie
I don't suppose this is any better. The lorry didn't sowmdown either but the horse was not bothered
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I Am Nico
master brummie
I recall one of my earliest memories, the milkman's horse was white, mum gave used to give him a carrot . Circa1961. The flower cart horse was skewbald and the rag and bone man's horse was a fine beast. Chocolate brown cob with lots of feathering. He always picked his feet up. They were a Romany family I went to school with their son later. By coincidence was at a Christening in Bulkington where this family's child was baptised just after the one I was at and they paraded the carriages trotting fast the horses in ribbons all fine animals. That would have been mid 70s. But what happened when they get old I hate to think.
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The photo from Yardley was interesting little more than country lane. When I moved to Great Barr in 1951 ish the Brooklin farm was still a farm, now the site of the Brooklin Technical College, the Aldridge Rd. and Beacon Rd. were still country lanes for a lot of their length as was the Queslet Rd and Newton Rd. If you went into parts of Birmingham a lot of the roads were still very narrow and cobbled especially round the jewellery quarter and gun quarter. The I think it was The Mineries between the two sections of Lewises had wooden cobbles to reduce the noise from horses hooves and the steel bands fitted to the wheels.
The kings and queens of England did nothing for me in the school history, but social history would have been far more interesting, all we touched was a short section on the Black Country.
My childhood is now a museum display...
Brian
The photo from Yardley was interesting little more than country lane. When I moved to Great Barr in 1951 ish the Brooklin farm was still a farm, now the site of the Brooklin Technical College, the Aldridge Rd. and Beacon Rd. were still country lanes for a lot of their length as was the Queslet Rd and Newton Rd. If you went into parts of Birmingham a lot of the roads were still very narrow and cobbled especially round the jewellery quarter and gun quarter. The I think it was The Mineries between the two sections of Lewises had wooden cobbles to reduce the noise from horses hooves and the steel bands fitted to the wheels.
The kings and queens of England did nothing for me in the school history, but social history would have been far more interesting, all we touched was a short section on the Black Country.
My childhood is now a museum display...
Brian
Eric Gibson
master brummie
I was working for Brooklyn Garage when Aldridge Road was widened to accommodate buses and the canal bridge removed, the garage belonged to the Brooklyn farming family member John Maybury, the house next door to his sister
His sister sold the land on the next junction to a company called The First National Housing Trust for housing but to Maybury's dismay they quickly sold it on to Petrofina who built a filling station, direct competition to his Esso forecourt.
His sister sold the land on the next junction to a company called The First National Housing Trust for housing but to Maybury's dismay they quickly sold it on to Petrofina who built a filling station, direct competition to his Esso forecourt.
Lloyd
master brummie
I remember it being rubber bricks for that reason,
paul stacey
master brummie
I don't know what year, but I remember them being taken up with the old tram lines,
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Eric I lived in Pinewood Close so Brooklin Garage was my local garage spent many minuts cursing your air machine that pinged until the presures equalised in the tyre and the needle on the guage jumped up and down. Yourself or the garage on Greenhelm Rd were the only garages in the area. Before the one you mentioned oposite the Drakes Drum pub opened.
Brian
Eric I lived in Pinewood Close so Brooklin Garage was my local garage spent many minuts cursing your air machine that pinged until the presures equalised in the tyre and the needle on the guage jumped up and down. Yourself or the garage on Greenhelm Rd were the only garages in the area. Before the one you mentioned oposite the Drakes Drum pub opened.
Brian
hi dave do you have a location for that photo...i can see it says on reece shop...ye oldest shop in looks like birmingham but its not spelt birmingham...could just be the old way of spelling it..maybe a bit of research is needed in looking up the reece shop name and also grenvilles warehouse ..great photo
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Lloyd
master brummie
Where is it of, please?
A Sparks
master brummie
It looked vaguely familiar from an old photo I've seen before - is it the Law Court's end of Corporation Street somewhere?
paul stacey
master brummie
What a brilliant pic!!, love the tudor building on the left, very atmospheric of the time say, late 19th early 20thC. Well done for finding it Dave!!
Jayell
master brummie
Not sure of the date but this is at the junction of Bull Stree/High Stret/Marineau Street/Dale End. I worked at a solicitor's officers on the first floor above Reece's Tobacconists in the late 50s.
adap2it
master brummie
A gem of a photo: very atmospheric: CITY CENTRE. The Old Lamb House pub (on extreme left), Bull St; at its junction with High St/Dale End, circa1886…Notice how the word Birmingham is still spelt the medieval way on the shop front! (Bermyngham).
So much character in one picture.
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So much character in one picture.
Often evoking feelings of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness how Brum was
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paul stacey
master brummie
Wow !! what a fantastic photo, I would think early, say about, 1870's 80's, well done Viv, and you Dave for reposting!!
I Am Nico
master brummie
I can 'hear' it if you know what I mean. A fantastic photo.Holbrooks Space was that a Birmingham, Company.? Coventry has a Holbrook Lane but everybody that I know says Holbrooks and for the area.
Yes, very much a Birmingham company. They were bombed in the war. There is a thread about them at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/holbrooks.58499/