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Various street pics
- Thread starter Astoness
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This is interesting Stars. The caption says it was a mobile greengrocery, but was it really 'mobile' with all that produce on top?! Also in view of it being a mobile van, it has a surprising range on offer. It feels almost familiar, but I don't remember seeing one of these on the streets. Maybe they didn't deliver around our neck of the woods. I do remember we had the bread van and the milk delivery on a horse-drawn cart in the 1950s. Viv.
Radiorails
master brummie
I reckon it would have been a busy mobile shop having three staff. It was amazing, in the days when things were more relaxed, how much could be loaded into and on to road vehicles. There were many mobile shops in Britain, particularly in rural areas, and were a great help to busy housewives and country workers.
In Devon, before widespread use of buses, a drovers cart carried people to market once or twice a week. The waggon was usually more than full and had to accommodate articles taken to market and also returned with items purchased there. It was often a tight squeeze - well built farm hands and bucksome ladies - but everyone knew everyone else. It was a great day out, usually, and the weekly chat (gossip) was caught up with.
I never herd of these methods of transport in Warwickshire or Birmingham but in the latter part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth centuries I am sure they existed in the Midlands as well.
In Devon, before widespread use of buses, a drovers cart carried people to market once or twice a week. The waggon was usually more than full and had to accommodate articles taken to market and also returned with items purchased there. It was often a tight squeeze - well built farm hands and bucksome ladies - but everyone knew everyone else. It was a great day out, usually, and the weekly chat (gossip) was caught up with.
I never herd of these methods of transport in Warwickshire or Birmingham but in the latter part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth centuries I am sure they existed in the Midlands as well.
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BernardR
Guest
Hi Stars - I remember those but possibly from 'Ten Acres and Stirchley' Co-Op (TASCO). Yes Viv they were definitely mobile. The stuff just stayed up there until needed a they would not have got up to that much of a speed. Yes I am sure you got your Divi.
TOPSYTURVEY
brum
Lovely pictures. The kids in#109 look fasinated by the horse.
TOPSYTURVEY
brum
#116 lovely picture of the shop. I bet those ladies didn,t have to work in a factory to make ends meet.
florence butler
master brummie
I really LOVE looking at all the old Birmingham photo's Lyn...Great thread. Thank you for all your hard work...Regards Florence