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Old street pics..

Looking at some existing forum photos of poor children they look as if the photos were taken and published to raise awareness of their conditions.
The children in the first pic are poorly dressed but seem to have chubby faces so they seem to have meals.
I like the way the tall child appears to be holding the hand of the worried looking little chap on the left.
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Original pic is in https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=40378&p=463618#post463618

Playing with a chair ...
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Original pic is 2nd in https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=40378&p=463617#post463617
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There are lots of pics where the kids have no shoes on the forum Phil I wonder what their life expectancy was bet it wasn't long
 
#2738/2 photo of the two girls playing with chair!!, in the back ground on the wall of the house opposite the girls yard, looks like a WW1 residents memorial, these wooden boxes, still existed in the late 50's showing the house numbers of the houses where the soldier killed lived on enlistment.paul
 
That's right Paul it's Arthur Street Small Heath I've seen a few of the memorials around , they look to be made of wood so that's probably why they don't seem to have lasted
 
re Singer building was it Rootes ? I remember the writing on the front of the building was ..HUMBER HILLMAN SUNBEAM SINGER COMMER KARRIER we use to compete with each other trying to remember the names when we were going past.
 
Hi
Yes you are right crimble. I worked just down the road at Vaughan motors and Sheldon motors. I had to
Go to roots to pick up the new hillman hunter which was just being released and the gaffer said get back
Quick and cover it up as it should not be seen by the public before launch date. I remember the names
On the front of the building.
Regards stars
 
Going back to the point about children being sewn into their clothes. I remember a radio programme many years ago in which it said that for the winter mother got a bale of red flannel and sewed all the children up in it as a protection against the cold of the winter. They when all the children were done Mom and Dad sewed each other up. All this done lying on the table. Remember houses were not well heated in those days and few people probably had thick outdoor coats.
 
Thats pretty much what I assumed happened to the kids David but they must have slept in the clothes as well for months , doesn't bear thinking about poor little souls
 
I know they're all Roots makes Richie but I,m not sure they made trucks and lorries at the Hay Mills plant but I'm often wrong
 
I think but could be wrong that the trucks were made in Southall. Will look it up when back home.

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It was Singer Cars that was situated there Paul.

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Having been the owner of Singer sewing machine, in my experience they were superb. Hopefully the cars were too. Viv.
 
Hi Viv; yes the old singers was a good reliable car and robust in manufacturing
and on the subject of the name of singers and there sewing machines
they to was a good make and brillient sewing machine
last week i was in upton on seven and in the little town it is there was an old and is still open for clothes cleaning and repairs they hold a big display of yester years products for cleaning materials and also the ironing implements
but i notice a tin of there own products of singers and that was a can of singers
oil in a little can what you would used for your old singer sewing machines
with a picture of a lady on her machine with the oil can in her hand
there was a huge bar of carbolic soap in green with the logo of the coop engraved through it there was lots of things to do with singer and there machines going back in the very early 1900s what our parents used to use
on the subject of the singer cars they was made on covenrty rd by a firm called rootes motors and they was taken over and sold the land to Asda super stores on cov rd today best wishes Alan Astonian;;;
 
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