And 4 more -first one looking to Mosborough Crescent from the quadrangled play are between this road and Unett St. Next two feature the Boys Brigade from the local Peoples Chapel, the last one includes the moon and Jupiter - yes we could occasionally afford to see the heavens, even in Newtown........ Photos also include those moronically stupid "Please Do Not Play On The Grass" signs that were concreted into every single bit of green stuff to persuade kids the roads were where to play football and ride your bikes........
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Another photograph of the quadrangle between Unett St and Mosborough Crescent - taken from a poor quality 110-negative - this was after the play are in the middle had been upgraded and the old massive tree-trunk in the middle had been removed:-
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Hello Mark,A few photos of Unett Street from the late 1970's (when we used to get snow occasionally....) - I have merged a couple together to give a panoramic view:-
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Thanks for that. Yes they were really awful living conditions, from the pictures I've seen and your description of your family's house. We really are lucky these days. Here in Australia, we live on a large block with a huge garden and a modest house. Lots of windows, lots of birdlife, lots of sunshine.hi sue lots of streets had courtyards and within the courtyard were so many houses...
back means they were back to back houses...meaning the wall of those houses backed onto the wall of the houses on the street..so the houses on the front only had windows looking onto the street (no back doors) and the houses that backed onto those only had windows looking out onto a yard...the entrance to the back houses was down an entry...i was born in my nans back to back house..1 very tiny livining room..1 bedroom an 1 attic...no kitchen just a cooker in the living room at the bottom of the stairs and a small scullery for washing up etc...
i will ask mike to post you a map showing your court 10 house 4
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Thanks Lyn. I'mso glad you had great memories. I didn't know my grandmother as she passed away quite young in the 1940s. My 89 year old mother, now in aged care, didn't want to leave her house either. It needed repair and was old but she has brought up her family there. I shed a tear yesterday as I've found out that that house has recently been demolished. I have lots of good memories there.thing is sue housing conditions back then was bad all over the world...we have come a long way since then but i do have to say that most people tried to keep their houses clean and tidy and took a pride in the little they had...and my memories of living at nans are only good ones...she had lived in that house for the best part of 70 years and when the time came in the late 1960s to demolish them she did not want to leave and was never happy where she moved to even though it had all the mods cons
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Yes it was my grandmother on my father's side, Beatrice Wakeling, lived there as a child with my greatgrandparents and her sister. She passed away in 1939 when dad was 9. I don't know the circumstances. He seemed to have moved to Icknield Port Road (Kenilworth Place) then Shenstone Valley Road and then he remarried in 1942.and they cant take away our memories sue...was it your grandmother that lived in unett st
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My grandmother had a green grocers shop in Unett Street 1911. Her name was Eleanor Elizabeth Wood. She lived there with her six childrenMrs Daniels outside her shop in Unett Street. Viv.
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hi and welcome...just trying to find her on the 1911 what year was she born...i can find an elizabeth wood with husband john aged 50 but with just one daughter minnie aged 22 living with them ... i think at court 27 house 4 in unett st but not sure is that is your grandmotherMy grandmother had a green grocers shop in Unett Street 1911. Her name was Eleanor Elizabeth Wood. She lived there with her six children
hi and welcome...just trying to find her on the 1911 what year was she born...i can find an elizabeth wood with husband john aged 50 but with just one daughter minnie aged 22 living with them ... i think at court 27 house 4 in unett st but not sure is that is your grandmother
lyn
ahh thats explains it mark...i did not know there was a unett st in smethwick..i have now edited the thread title to include newtownLiving on Unett St, Smethwick Lyn.