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horsencart
master brummie
Is the last Horse Trough in Birmingham (or at least one of the last few) in Cambridge St ? If you look at Baskerville House, just to one side next to the Library, there is what looks to me like a former Horse Trough but is now a Flower Bed Are there any more about or is this the last one? To the left of the trough there are four drilled holes I now think that there was a plate of some sort that had details of the Trough and that the plate has fell of or has been stolen, a fellow Photographer thinks that it may have been attached to a statue, I am in two minds about this having seen photos of the same type Trough
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paul stacey
master brummie
As a boy , I remember horse troughs, and drinking fountains all over Brum 50's early 60's. Paul
cookie273uk
master brummie
I remember seeing one near The Barton Arms, as that gone ? Eric
Lady Penelope
master brummie
I don't remember that one Morturn. I think it was probably because I was fascinated by the the buildings opposite to Woolies. I'm sure there must be a picture of them on the forum somewhere but I haven't found it yet.
Apparently there was a horse trough on the Coventry Road where it forks with Cattell Road, outside the pub, the Greenaway. There's a nice picture on the Old Pubs of Brum thread posted by Phil.
Apparently there was a horse trough on the Coventry Road where it forks with Cattell Road, outside the pub, the Greenaway. There's a nice picture on the Old Pubs of Brum thread posted by Phil.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Gosh, what a memory! Now I remember it and of course Woolworths, which I had also forgotten. Thanks for the memory?
Bob
Do you mean the National School Pen?
Lady Penelope
master brummie
No Morturn, I may have imagined them but I seem to remember three (?) shops to the right of the National Schools but I don't know why they've stuck in my mind. I'll try and find out what they were.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Lyn posted a picture of Erdington High Street in 2011 https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/erdington-high-street.35330/
It's one I hadn't seen before and it shows Woolworths and the Acorn. There's a sun blind on the left hand side of the road about where the shops were.
It's one I hadn't seen before and it shows Woolworths and the Acorn. There's a sun blind on the left hand side of the road about where the shops were.
jmadone
master brummie
I'm sure I can remember one outside the Bull's Head at Hay Mills, now long gone of course.
cookie273uk
master brummie
I cannot conceive why they are removed, I realise horse transport as long since gone but it is part of our history. Eric
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Probably elfnsafety, you could fall in and drown, I'm just an old cynic of course, I expect there was a much better reason....on second thoughts nah......elfnsafety!!
Bob
I was thinking that too, but unfortunately it doesn't appear in the photograph in the book of Yardley photographs that we have. Wasn't the one near Catell Street near to a cast iron urinal? Horse troughs were usually placed near steep bits of the road so as to give the poor beasts a chance to rest too.
The Baskerville House troughs above look to be too shallow and too low to the ground. Maybe they have been 're-purposed' and repositioned?
Lady Penelope
master brummie
I have to admit that I know very little about that area jmadone as I come from the north of the city. However, my husband knows the area so I'll see if he remembers it.
One of these plastic boxes, 20 x 5 x 5 cm, has just appeared on a lamp post opposite my house. There are others in the district too, some only a few hundred metres apart. I don't see any obvious opening for a camera lens or to take in an air sample. Any ideas? (Not in Birmingham).
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Not for relaying automatic meter readings. They require a power supply and are much bigger boxes, generally on their own pole. 1415076, probably an item number rather than a location number. Does it look as if if has a power lead coming in for the pole anywhere?
EDIT: It seems to be a multi-way connectivity box, most likely phone connected.
Maurice
EDIT: It seems to be a multi-way connectivity box, most likely phone connected.
Maurice
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Re. the black box there is no wiring that I can see, they are just tie-wrapped to the poles. Most are angled at 45 degrees or so to the road but one opposite a T-junction is at right-angles. We have been threatened with a restricted vehicle emissions closer in to town and that makes me wonder if they are passive air quality monitors, (a bit of filter paper), but with modern electronics any sort of temporary data logger could be possible.
Lighting causes a stir in Marston Green in August 1972. Not sure which model was worse. Viv.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
It really doesn't matter, there are always objectors but some also who find the stuff attractive. (Windmills anyone?)
Once installed and people become accustomed to their presence they become sort of invisible, nobody notices them......except those amongst us who suffer from ocd.
Once installed and people become accustomed to their presence they become sort of invisible, nobody notices them......except those amongst us who suffer from ocd.
An impressive bus shelter from the 1930s. Viv.
Radiorails
master brummie
The bus would survive the 2nd. world war and be withdrawn in 1946. The shelter seems to be from the tramway era, probably at the former 34 tram route terminus.
