1946pat
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Post by 1946pat on Oct 30, 2012 11:55:58 GMT
over the weekend i was trying to explain about a character that used to wander around the local streets hooping and a hollering with ladders on his shoulder and peddling his old bike , so my querie is can any bone throw any light on a bloke who called himself "SashCord Ken" ??
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Post by bernie120g on Oct 30, 2012 14:58:56 GMT
There was a bloke called sashcord Ken used to ride a bike with ladders that may have been him
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dollar
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Post by dollar on Nov 1, 2012 17:46:20 GMT
Hi i dont remember sashcord ken, but it is things and people that stick in your mind when you are young about 1957 a lady used to walk round little green lane she had a son who had a large head and she wheeled him round in a basket i think they lived in grange road. also there was a man named peter and he would run up and down little green lane with his arms out like a aeroplane and all the kids would shout him and he would chase them with his stick he lived in wyndcliffe road any one remember. keith.
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Post by Jerry on Nov 1, 2012 19:14:55 GMT
Hi Keith, I remember both of them. The lad in the basket was fully grown and the basket was the size of a small bed. Sad really, I suppose nowadays he'd be supplied with a powered wheelchair and his mother would have access to a lot of help and support that just wasn't available then.
The guy who used to run around pretending to be a plane worked for one of the dairies, or one of the milkmen at one time delivering milk. He used to deliver to our next door neighbours and we used to watch out for him because you could always scrounge cigarettes off of him when he had any.
Jerry
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Post by walt00 on Nov 1, 2012 21:02:58 GMT
Even though i did not live in Little Green Lane i do remember both of these people. I very often saw the lady pushing the large Basket around the Coventry Road and the Lad/Man, was very visible.The other person used to help The Milkman around Green Lane, and he never stopped Running. I often wondered what happened to him. Wal.
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1946pat
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Post by 1946pat on Nov 2, 2012 6:37:48 GMT
i recall them both vividly,peter used to meet me in cartwrights newsagents at 7 am and help me with my paper round, his mom was a friend of my moms,the milkman he used to help was aguy called gorden,as regards the lad in the basket i think his name was brian and he had fluid on the brain and was blind i,m sure planetmalc could throw more light on him because they lived in the same road
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Post by vince on Nov 2, 2012 14:05:58 GMT
I think the lad in the basket was called John, as Pat said, he was born with water on the brain and he was blind. His mother had devoted her life to him.
She had a relative who lived up our entry in Greenway St, and she used to leave him in the yard while she visited. I dont remember him well, but he used to always know who I was when I walked past.
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Post by planetmalc on Nov 2, 2012 16:09:49 GMT
as regards the lad in the basket i think his name was brian and he had fluid on the brain and was blind i,m sure planetmalc could throw more light on him because they lived in the same road Yes, I remember him well. His name was John and he died around 50 years ago. He lived in Holmwood Road, about a third of the way up from Grange Road, on the east side.
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