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Old street pics..

Hi Bernie - Yes I remember one or two floods there until they carried out flood improvement work in the area. I also remember seeing flooding in Old Walsall Rd Hamstead in either 1965 or 1966.
Phil
 
What a great pic that is Bernie,it certainly aint like that anymore......is that a horse and cart coming down the lane.
 
Hockley kids 1949.jpgThe next few pics are from a collection of kids photographs this and the next are captioned children playing in the street in Hockley 1943, looks later to me , from back to back and tunnel entry slums no location but if anyone recognizes the street it will be a bonus
 
Birmingham Central Goods Depotsuffolkstreetleft holliday street right allport street behind.jpgAnother view of Birmingham Central Goods Depot it stood in a triangle of Allport Street , Suffolk Street and Holliday Street
 
In # 2714-5 I'd say 1943 is about right, I think the sand buckets hanging on the walls means the war was still on, I wonder what game the girls are playing, looks like it could be one we called 'statues' were you had to pose in the position when the person turned round.
Nick
 
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That Floodgate School classroom looks to me like a very caring and nurturing place. And the children seem, on the whole, very happy children. How good to see that sort of example. Viv.
 
Your welcome Brumgum I seem to remember reading a very disturbing report on Floodgate Street school from around the turn of the century, they had installed baths and some of the kids were sewn into their winter clothes and had to be cut out to be bathed , they had all sorts of nasty infections and it was taking 30 to 45 mins to get the dirt off Viv
 
Well Bernie no wonder the little ones seem happy. The classroom probably became a very important place to them having most likely come from appalling housing conditions. Wonder if it was usual for schools to install bathing facilities at this time. Never heard of it before. Viv.
 
It's now part of the Digbeth Campus of South & City College Birmingham (previously South Birmingham College before the merger with City College Birmingham last year).

One from 2009

 
Berniew
Regarding your post #2725, I shared a flat with a teacher for 9 monthe in 1968. It was his first job, and was somewhere in Aston, I cannot remember where now. He told me that they had had one child starting who was sewn into their clothes
 
I was at a meeting of a local history group some years ago when a slide was shown of a butchers shop with joints of meat hanging outside like in the Coventry Road photo and one member of the audience could not believe that meat was displayed like that.
 
berniew said:
some of the kids were sewn into their winter clothes and had to be cut out to be bathed
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Reading this I started to wonder why some kids were sewn into their clothes and had a search on Google which was not too helpful.
One answer was 'Mothers would sew their children into their clothes because they were made out of scraps'.
 
I think that they were sewn in winter time Phil and didn't change their clothes again till they fell apart or out grew them that's why they were so dirty and there was so much poor health and disease about .
 
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