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Hi Nick - Yes I can vaguely remember it but Picture Post was the main magazine of those times.
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I remember John Bull and Illustrated. We had Illustrated London News at school. Titbits title was bought by a soft porn publisher and became a top shelf mag.
 
"Dickie seat"! How could anyone be carried in one of those without a seat belt or head restraint? Come to think about it, how could anyone drive one of those old Roadsters with no servo steering or braking, airbags, head restraints, reversing lights, parking sensors or cameras? And however did anyone get to Southampton without a Sat-nav? :culpability:

Ah yes, the smells of fresh sliced bacon and cheese cut with a piano wire; who can forget George Masons? Strange isn't it how the produce was must cheaper when totted up on the paper it was wrapped in with a freshly licked tip of an indelible pencil? :abnormal:

My parents are probably at my parents fault for allowing me access to the pictures of you ladies showing their stocking tops in the Reveille and Titbit while listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjjdpFZmEc that made me the warped individual I am today. :crushed:
 
As you sign off Oisin, You used to have a life now you have the internet. I used to ride a bike and cyclists didn't have crash helmets in those days. I used to get a lift to work from a colleague on a motor bike also without a crash helmet, and neither did he have one.
 
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"Dickie seat"! How could anyone be carried in one of those without a seat belt or head restraint? Come to think about it, how could anyone drive one of those old Roadsters with no servo steering or braking, airbags, head restraints, reversing lights, parking sensors or cameras? And however did anyone get to Southampton without a Sat-nav? :culpability:

Ah yes, the smells of fresh sliced bacon and cheese cut with a piano wire; who can forget George Masons? Strange isn't it how the produce was must cheaper when totted up on the paper it was wrapped in with a freshly licked tip of an indelible pencil? :abnormal:

My parents are probably at my parents fault for allowing me access to the pictures of you ladies showing their stocking tops in the Reveille and Titbit while listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjjdpFZmEc that made me the warped individual I am today. :crushed:
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My mate used to get turned on by the can can lady on the fron of the sheet music for Song From the Moulin Rouge. How well they judged the cheese portions with the cheese wire. When I was at school cheeky girls would lift up the boys blazers and say he's got a cheese wire bum? Loved the sound of the bacon slicer. The butter patts and the Libra style weighing scales with the individual brass weights and the way they packed lookse tea in to a packet made from flat paper and string. My partner is my Satnav she says turn right and I do then she says why did you turn right I said left.
 
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"Dickie seat"! How could anyone be carried in one of those without a seat belt or head restraint?
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Had to look up on Google why they were called dickie seats and one of the answers was that they were also called 'mother-in-law seats' !!
 
must have been a laugh a minuet to watch "the mother in law, getting in and out of, "the dickie" seat #459. I too read the "reveille" .paul
 
The ejector seat in my wild imaginings would be funnier. I have stopped the car in the past turned round and shouted at herin the back seat but it doesn't do any good. My partner did the same once without stopping the car and went in to the side of another car. Imagine having your mother in law in a combination. You would unhook it.
 
Stoney Lane 1960 (1).jpgThis is a photo of Stoney Lane where I grew up until 1967 when we all had to move out, the houses were demolished and it is now a green area.
 
Those blokes on the pavement knew which street this airplane was being transported along but I've searched here there and everywhere and even though I've traced every one of those type of aircraft, I still don't know !
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All quiet on the Aldridge Road. I've often wondered about the three cyclists in the early 1930s, if they could have seen 80 years into the future they would have been reassured to see the houses on the right are still there, but across the skyline behind them the road is crossed by the massive M6 bridge. Makes one wonder what will be there 80 years into the future - maybe Perry Barr Park completely covered by houses ....
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Twenty odd years later that would have been my two friends and myself on our way to Sutton Park, we would fill our water bottles, and sometimes share a bottle of pop bought at the shop just up the road, and pedal our way to another adventure.
Living between Perry Barr park and the playing fields didn't hold the same spirit of adventure as a trip to Sutton held.
 
angela burley said:
Re. post 414, photograph put on by Old Mowhawk could he be a Telegram delivery boy ?
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It looks like a man and two ladies cycling on a Sunday morning to go to St Johns church ....maybe !
Telegram boys ....I'd forgotten about them. If one knocked on your front door with a telegram it was usually bad news.
Perry Barr Park was a place I often went to in my childhood with my jam jar and fishing net to catch tiddlers.
 
angela burley said:
Re. post 414, photograph put on by Old Mowhawk could he be a Telegram delivery boy ?
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Hello Angela
Sorry I did not notice the post number #414 in your post, it's a possibility he could be a telegram boy, although that round badge looks like a bus driver's badge.
I will have to have a look at telegram boy uniforms, although he looks a bit old to be a telegram boy !
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Nico said:
Never seen telegraph poles like that before?
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Hi Nico - I remember them up the Kingstanding Rd as in the pic below, 14 bar poles ! The lady at the bus stop has probably picked up her baby from the nursery which can be seen on the corner of Goodway Rd
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I never saw any with so many bars as that Mohawk. I remember the actual cables used to have little rubber things at intervals, Nan sad they were for the the birds to perch on. Looking back I doubt that is what they were for.
I have seen cables with what look like fleurescent lamps on near water and I was told that was to stop swans and ducks crashing in to them.
 
Does anyone know if Market Hall in the parish of St Martins was a district itself or would it have been the Market Hall? Nico.
 
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I never saw any with so many bars as that Mohawk. I remember the actual cables used to have little rubber things at intervals, Nan sad they were for the the birds to perch on.
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Hi Nico - Looking at the poles you can see 4 crock insulators on each bar which means 56 thin wires between each pole. This was a bit of a problem for flocks of pidgeons speeding through the air, so they often put the little rubber things on the wires so the pidgeons would see them.
 
Nico

According to this 1885 Birmingham Street Plan Market Hall was a ward adjacent to St Martins ward. I don't know if this answers your question.
 

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That bus drivers leaning on someone behind that pole Im sure. Was this a role that conductors usually fulfilled ? - ie. position themselves as a balance post for the driver at intervals along the route while he has a comfort breaking ciggy.

Wasn't Titbits named due to the smaller articles (ie tittle tattle) in said publication - rather than in reference to the orbital upper part of a ladies appendage - cough - well thats my story and Im sticking to it lads :-)
 
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That bus drivers leaning on someone behind that pole Im sure. Was this a role that conductors usually fulfilled ?
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At that leaning angle he would need something solid to lean on and it might be a Bundy Clock. He's probably waiting for the moment when he can turn the key. The pic below from 1900 shows the earliest leaning man I've seen on the forum.
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