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They Were Caught In Our Old Street Pics...

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A Rolls at Six Ways Erdington in 1938 probably heading for posher parts. The workers by the roadworks seem interested but the two women in the pic don't even notice it. I can remember my one and only trip in a Rolls as a child for a family wedding and the driver told us that Queen Mary had travelled in it during a visit to Birmingham !
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Nice picture Mohawk good to see a photo when I was just a boy. Regards, David.
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A Rolls at Six Ways Erdington in 1938 probably heading for posher parts. The workers by the roadworks seem interested but the two women in the pic don't even notice it. I can remember my one and only trip in a Rolls as a child for a family wedding and the driver told us that Queen Mary had travelled in it during a visit to Birmingham ! Nice Picture Mohawk good to see a photo when I was just a lad. Regards, David.
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Summer Rd 1935 Six Ways Erdington, wonder what mum's saying to the little girl? People back then probably never looked twice at the wonderful street lights they had, we probably couldn't afford them these days. Ideal Milk and Noted Tea and Coffee - what more could you want ?....:friendly_wink:
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A good excuse to look at this nice forum photo of a bus but look at the man pushing a buggy, he appears to be doing a 'wheelie' but I suppose it's just going up on to the pavement. I'm afraid I don't know which street is in the pic.
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Yes definitely a 'Morris Traveller' as I had one just the same. VOG 223 if I recall correctly.
 
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Hard to believe, that lad if alive is near 55 now, I date the photo around 1964, given the cars.
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I would put the push-chair pusher to be more like 65 now, appearing to be about 15 years of age fifty years ago. Maybe nowadays the child in the push-chair is pushing HIM in a full-size wheelchair?

Has anyone noticed how far away the pedestrian crossing at the back of the bus is away from the belisha beacon? Maybe the road had been newly tarmacked and the crossing re-situated.
 
It does look like it was the Old College of Commerce, so it is Aston St. I've had a look on streetview and can see those glass brick windows still in the building today. So many changes in that area! The bus looks in fine glossy condition probably cleaned and polished for it's picture. It is strange what memories are revived with these pics, I used to go train spotting but also seem to remember we could buy books and go bus number plate spotting - maybe if my memory is ok !
Cars with wood trim ... we were a strange lot with our cars back in those days.
 
Looking at these photos reminds that I went to school in Acocks Green, during the thirties, and I recall the school colours were red & green. I would walk from my home in Blytheswood Road, along the Warwick Road, and before crossing the Warwick Road, to the school, somewhere around St. Mary's Church area, was a field where a horse would be standing with his head over the hedge, and I would feed him a piece of apple. It has all disappeared now, covered with houses. Looking at a map it appears to be the corner of what is now Warwick Road & Flint Green Road. I also recall the tram terminus at the village, where the trams would follow a loop round, with the terminus covered waiting area. Much like the old Lickey tram terminus, but a much smaller scale.
 
Yes Mike it is Aston Street, at the rear of the bus you can see the Sack of Potatoes pub at the top of Lister Street, behind the bus if you could see it would be Celica cinema (BBC Studio).
 

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Looking at these photos reminds that I went to school in Acocks Green, during the thirties, and I recall the school colours were red & green. I would walk from my home in Blytheswood Road, along the Warwick Road, and before crossing the Warwick Road, to the school, somewhere around St. Mary's Church area, was a field where a horse would be standing with his head over the hedge, and I would feed him a piece of apple. It has all disappeared now, covered with houses. Looking at a map it appears to be the corner of what is now Warwick Road & Flint Green Road. I also recall the tram terminus at the village, where the trams would follow a loop round, with the terminus covered waiting area. Much like the old Lickey tram terminus, but a much smaller scale.
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Hi Norfolk Brummie - The one photo of Flint Green Rd I know of on the forum is here but it won't enlarge.
There are some 1942 photos of a children's nursery in Flint Green Rd on the IWM site https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205199437
More photos can be seen at the bottom of their page under the link photo .....scroll down ...
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A forum pic of Longmore St Balsall Heath and I suppose there was a simple explanation for why the traffic warden is standing on the crossing when she was caught in the pic ...
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paul stacey said:
Is the old car in the FRHSL, (just the bonnet and NS front wheel arch) an old Austin Somerset A40.Paul
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Looks more like a Ford Popular or Prefect in post 1178 Paul - never could remember the difference. The Austin A40 would have had the flying A bonnet mascot.
 
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My Corgi Popular was pale blue. Didn't they have Police cars like that? We used to have a Prefect it was cream with a red interior. It almost blew up in Warwick. Mum drove it back is was beeping like mad.
 
A Ford Anglia has a similar chassis to a Ford Prefect or a Ford Popular. I think?
You would know if you had a big Margaret, Austin, if she was chatted up enough she would let you off on a double yeller line.
 
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This old pic of the Broadway Perry Barr brings up happy memories for me. One afternoon in the 1960s I went into an office in one of the shops on the right and reported for my driving test. I spent most of the test in traffic jams around the Witton area and returned to that patch of road where the children are standing to be told by the test examiner that I had passed ... that made me very happy !
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