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Where is this? #80
- Thread starter motorman-mike
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motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
Sorry folks, nobody has got it yet. Jean it's nowhere near that far away (and not at Arley either!). The destination is a clue.
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
No John, it's not that far out of town.
C
carole-fordy
Guest
Is that Kitts Green on the destination ?
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Well I think it is a No 14 bus and the destination is Tile Cross Estate Via Kitts Green. From the clues Mike gives I would put it between Gosta Green and Alum Rock.
As I don't recognise it as being part of Great Lister St, and knowing that there were some mock Tudor buildings in Saltley up over the viaduct I am going to take a guess at the area around The Gate Saltley.
Phil
As I don't recognise it as being part of Great Lister St, and knowing that there were some mock Tudor buildings in Saltley up over the viaduct I am going to take a guess at the area around The Gate Saltley.
Phil
Louis Dalby
The Ham Man
2829 Woodcock Street
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
Well done Louis, the bus is turning in to Woodcock Street heading towards Gosta Green (you were on the right track Phil) for Great Lister Street on the experimental 99 limited stop service to Tile Cross in 1959. The sevice was not considered a success and soon withdrawn leaving it to the original 14 service to serve Tile Cross.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mike
The older we get, the more tricks our memory plays on us. I have walked down that road a thousand times on my way into town. Even now I have been told, I still don't recognise one of those shops behind the bus. Yet I am able to recognise places I have only seen once or twice in my life.
Phil
The older we get, the more tricks our memory plays on us. I have walked down that road a thousand times on my way into town. Even now I have been told, I still don't recognise one of those shops behind the bus. Yet I am able to recognise places I have only seen once or twice in my life.
Phil
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
That's Ashted Row behind the bus Phil, the shop to the left of the bus is Gladys Bickley's Tobacconists and to the right of it is Nicholas Leslie's Barbers Shop. When I lived in Alum Rock I would use the washing baths in Woodcock Street and get a haircut at Nick's before jumping on a 55 bus on the way home from work in Congreve Street. I smoked back then and would maybe pick up a packet of Olivier cigarettes (1/9 for 10) in the tobacconists for a smoke on the bus - as allowed on the top deck at the time.
Mike
