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They Were Caught In Our Old Street Pics...

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Kynochs workers on the way home maybe two years before the start of WW1 according to the date on this forum photo. Interesting vehicle next to the horse, and everyone wearing a hat.
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The description 'sit up and beg' comes to mind, but that might be in relation to something totally different. What do others think?

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I always liked this forum pic with the bowler hatted man sitting upright riding his bike on those cobbles. It is Navigation St and some heavy girder work on the right. I had a look on today's Street View and at least the building at the end of the street is still there but the girders have gone !

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I notice the advert on the right, "Mitchells Stout", when did it become our beloved "Mitchells and Butlers", a true Brummy beer.
 
Don't like the beer here, it' vile! (Baz) but I used to drink M&B bitter. I had a nice pint of Bathams in Stourport but I am not sue how to say it.. My grandad like Adnams and Davenports.
 
Thanks for the info. Adnams is,big here in the East, being brought up on M&B Mild beer I have struggled to find any in the south or east of uk, but a new pub with its own micro brewery has set up in Cambridge and they brew a light dark stout which is as near as dam it to the old taste.
 
Radiorails said:
The description 'sit up and beg' comes to mind, but that might be in relation to something totally different. What do others think?
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I certainly used the description in my young days when there were bikes with 'sit up and beg' handlebars and other bikes with 'dropped' handlebars. I eventually acquired a dropped handlebar bike (also known as racing handlebars) but found it not so comfortable riding to and from work.

Looking at the photo I wonder, did the photographer think 'I'll go out and take a pic of Navigation St today' or maybe he was commissioned by the railway company concerned about slightly untidy unauthorised adverts on their property. I notice the cyclist appears to be reading the adverts.
 
I read that we now have a brewery called Byatts? And I went to a brewery pub on a farm at a place called Willey that everyone raved about going towards Leics. Vile beer. Chao said they put too many hops in?
Most of the Cov pubs are chains like Scream, Chef and Brewer, Sizzling and Ember Inns oh and Weatherspoons that sell cheap beer which I am told is the end of the barrell. but there are some that sell proper beer. Usuaslly tucked away somewhere. At one time they had a lot of Firkin pubs but they seemed to fizzle out. Does the poster ay Hartleys?
 
oldMohawk said:
Looking at the photo I wonder, did the photographer think 'I'll go out and take a pic of Navigation St today' or maybe he was commissioned by the railway company concerned about slightly untidy unauthorised adverts on their property. I notice the cyclist appears to be reading the adverts.
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I doubt that the railway would be complaining about the adverts as they were getting the revenue from them. What we are seeing in the photo is the street level view of the Navigation Street Bridge. From the platform leve the road bridges over the station are more obvious. Look at this satellite view from Google Maps for the bridges over the station.

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oldMohawk said:
Hi Baz - Well I typed 'Clarkes Thunder Clouds' into Google and it is tobacco and there is an old tobacco tin for sale on eBay.
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Thanks for coming back on this.
I can't imagine why they would give a baccy such an ominous sounding name !
I remember "Passing Clouds" which I think came over from Ireland, they sound a little better.
 
This photo appeared in a post on the forum in September 2012 with some discussion about which street it was in. The 'thunder clouds' had gathered !
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Nico, The Raven was demolished and in it's place --------a block of flats. My apologies, they are not flats but a Care Home for people with Dementia.
 
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I lived in Bartley Green for a time in the 50's, I went to the village school of St Michaels, next to the St Michaels church and grave yard, I called around when my Dad died in 1998, they had demolished the old school and church, left the grave yard, and erected a huge block of flats where the old church had stood, still surrounded by the grave yard?????????????????????????????????????
 
Thanks Jimbo. The church where my grandparents married and my dad was christened was allowed to decay the roof fell in and they put benches in it. The church where I was christened is now a dual carraiageway. The churchyard has benches in it. Didn't think they could do that with consecrated ground. St Mark's church here is now part of the hospital. At least they left your graveyard. My aunty Nelly lived in Bartley Green.
 
She lived in Adams Hill. Moved to Quinton after. Don't know the dates but she was in Adams Hill around 65 and before that.
 
Adams Hill was a very long road, it stretched from the village to Woodgate, I lived at 112, on the corner of Romsey Road, facing the old dairy.
 
Yes you are right Nico, but it seemed more modern in Bartley Green, I cannot remember to well over 56yrs ago, but I seem to remember my MOM having a friend called Mrs Naisbitt, whose husband was disabled, my Moms name was Bella, and I think they met at the Whist club.paul
 
Sit up and beg
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a great phrase I think this is a modern version below.

Thank you Phil for the sandwich board men pic - I asked on another thread ages ago if anyone remembered them and didn't get any takers.
We used to have one on Soho Road 50+ years ago - and I'm guessing he might have been self employed - his signs seemed hand made.

My guess would be that the Navigation Rd pic is a scenic pic using the road direction to draw the eye in to the shot.

I wonder where the name "Thunder clouds" came from.

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#1111 thank you Bernard for the 1967 New Street date - that explains it.
New St Stn always seemed modern to me - do we have any pre 1967 pics ?

Hats -> That's another great pic and "everyone" was hatted - wow !
 
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Yes you are right Nico, but it seemed more modern in Bartley Green, I cannot remember to well over 56yrs ago, but I seem to remember my MOM having a friend called Mrs Naisbitt, whose husband was disabled, my Moms name was Bella, and I think they met at the Whist club.paul
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Everybody was Mr and Mrs then. When he died she eventually remarried and moved. She became Mrs Southall. I know she went to a club she had a real Brummie accent very high pitched and always laughing, I wouldn't like to say a whine cos it wasn't. But when she phoned it always threw me as she sort of launched words at you. Very bad on her feet yet she had nice legs. The eldest was always in trouble, had a motorbike, I used to play with the younger one.
I can only remember 56 too for different reasons.
 
Seeing an old charabang in another thread today, here is a photo of one that was lost from the forum in the 2011 'hack' attack. A quote from post #5 in the old thread describes it much better than I can.
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I think that is the oldest sharra I have seen. Look at the doors in the side one for each row. And the folding roof at the back in case of rain. Solid tires. The ride itself must have been a bit of an ordeal. Can you imagine these things sailing along the roads with everyone singing 'knees up Mother Brown' and 'when father painted the parlour'. There's an old mill......
Wonder where they put the brown ale on that thing.
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Some interesting information about it in post #8 in the old thread ....
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Certainly looks its age. Stockland coaches used to have a model T ford chara which they used to show at the (if I remember correctly) Erdington shows. We used to have to make sure it would run prior to the show, not quite you're modern day technology.
 
"Baggsied" Stephen! Haven't heard that in years. Haven't done it in years either. Shall make it a special task to Baggsie a seat this weekend, see how it feels again. Any excuse to be a child again..... Viv.
 
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