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Old street pics..

brummie nick


A photo of the Old Peacock at Gosta Green for you.
 

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hi berie
they are some crcing pictures of all our yester years i enoyed browsing through them [ such gems ]
the last picts of the ladies all wearing simular coats especaly with the fur collars i would imagine they was the middle class tofts
and mostly they must have been in bussiness ladies purchasing there supplies for them [ where i put tofts may be not just ordinary middle clas ladies ]
best wishes alan astonian;;;
 
Yeah cracking, Have not seen #3556 before...Moat Lane I think...no Smithfield buildings yet and the lady watering, would be standing where the southern part of the moat would have been.
 
#3567 is a stunner and have not seen it before as busy as that. A wonderful photo at maybe close to the end of the horse era. The trucks look shiny and new. Gosh, how much busier could it possibly be. # 3568 is an old favourite showing the old poplars (I think) around the moat. The view direction is the same as the photo I believe but I suspect from a little further south and standing in an early Bradford Street. Come to think of it, the sidewalk corner at the bottom of the picture might be the corner of what would become Sherlock St. If this is correct, then we would be looking up to the corner of Moat Lane and Moat Row and that would be the Manor forecourt; outside of the moat. Upper Mill Lane would be up there and perhaps the buildings ahead on the right might have been Manor Mill related. Maybe unused by then. The two images are very complimentary. You can see the old wooden fence around the outside of the moat and the Poplars would be on the inside of the water.
In picture #3568 there should be a leat from Highgate dam, somewhere in the foreground (maybe below street level at that time, or maybe dis-used) that lead to Lloyds/Astericks mill pool and the top of the pool may be behind the wall on the right, if it was still there. This pool fed the watermill on Lower Mill lane. The lane is still there.
 
#3574, the young lad in the uniform of the " Worcestershire Regiment", wearing that awful, "Bradley Cap", quite a good photo Bernie.paul
 
I wonder if it is an electric tram. There were battery electric ones but also cable ones. If cable the buildings behind would be in Hockley where the winding engines and sheds were. Maybe this was a battery electric car used on the Bristol Road.
 
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