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Post by Jerry on Nov 25, 2012 15:36:23 GMT
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Post by Jerry on Nov 25, 2012 15:37:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 18:14:16 GMT
Hi Jerry & Vince
What a great find, I had never heard of this Small Heath paper.
After a little digging, being located at 365 Coventry Road puts it opposite the Brighton Arms Pub, in the spot where the rolls of carpets are on the picture. [/center]
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Post by annels on Nov 25, 2012 20:17:44 GMT
Remember this shop when it was house of holland,bought my first small spin dryer from there in 1972.
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Post by planetmalc on Nov 26, 2012 13:28:23 GMT
A great find, Vince! I'll savour it one page per day. I note that he calls us 'Small Heathens' and not 'Small Heathians'. Is he right or is it an in-house joke? (Don't ask me, I only lived there ;D). Our scribe, 'Pinfire', is no poet (but he does his best). "I'll hie me far away, where the n i g g e r s only play." - oh dear.
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Post by vince on Nov 26, 2012 15:43:09 GMT
A great find, Vince! I'll savour it one page per day. I note that he calls us 'Small Heathens' and not 'Small Heathians'. Is he right or is it an in-house joke? (Don't ask me, I only lived there ;D). Our scribe, 'Pinfire', is no poet (but he does his best). "I'll hie me far away, where the n i g g e r s only play." - oh dear. Twas the language of the time. Wonder if he meant small heath park...
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Post by planetmalc on Nov 28, 2012 14:18:47 GMT
You get the n-word bandied about quite a lot in old publications; it's in one of the verses to the theme song for Felix the Cat, too. I also remember using it to name a stray black cat that we took in, back in the 50's. On the first page of the journal, he also talks about using a room in the turret at Green Lane Library. Looks like the tower was more than just ornamental, then. Not surprised it fell out of use, though; places like that usually end up as dens of one kind of iniquity or another.
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Post by planetmalc on Nov 28, 2012 15:59:18 GMT
On page 2, they talk about 'the mile of shops from Kingston Hill to the Park', so it was 'Kingston Hill' in 1903. years before the Kingston cinema opened in 1935. I looked around the 'net and found this:- billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-k/kingston-hill/ It looks like the name origin is a bit of a mystery (1928 is being bandied around in the article, which is clearly wrong), and I also found a genealogy site that contained a query from someone who had a birth certificate with a 'Kingston Place, Greenway Street' on it, dating from 1872.
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Post by vince on Nov 28, 2012 17:08:22 GMT
You get the n-word bandied about quite a lot in old publications; it's in one of the verses to the theme song for Felix the Cat, too. I also remember using it to name a stray black cat that we took in, back in the 50's. On the first page of the journal, he also talks about using a room in the turret at Green Lane Library. Looks like the tower was more than just ornamental, then. Not surprised it fell out of use, though; places like that usually end up as dens of one kind of iniquity or another. Yeah. We had a dog called Rastus at one place I worked at. I dont see why these things cant just be taken in context, times were different then, and most of the time no harm was intended. PC nes is doing a lot of harm in a way. The BBC removed every reference to, and every scene containing the dog in the Dambusters film. In case he offended the white people who thought that the black people might be offended by scenes in a film made by white people about a black dog that lived 70 years ago.. Trust me, they wouldnt. .
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Post by planetmalc on Dec 9, 2012 16:53:20 GMT
The 'E. R. Billingsley' (hairdresser), in the advert near the top of column 1, page 8, is a member of a family that I'm related to (probably by marriage). They still had a business there (at 78 Muntz Street) when I was a nipper.
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Post by vince on Dec 10, 2012 10:41:53 GMT
The 'E. R. Billingsley' (hairdresser), in the advert near the top of column 1, page 8, is a member of a family that I'm related to (probably by marriage). They still had a business there (at 78 Muntz Street) when I was a nipper. 'Nearly opposite the football ground' Sort of brings it home how different a place small heath was 110 years ago somehow.
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Post by planetmalc on Dec 10, 2012 14:24:11 GMT
Sure does. It's a great pity that the outside of the ground never tempted a photographer (I guess we're lucky, though, that more than one was taken on the inside). It's a bit like the Small Heath Lido in this respect.
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Post by planetmalc on Dec 12, 2012 15:25:31 GMT
I found issue 1 of the SHJ quite entertaining and would have been queueing up for issue 2; I wonder if it ever came out? Vince, did the seller tell you where they found issue 1?
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Post by vince on Dec 13, 2012 16:18:04 GMT
I got it off ebay, the vendor says it was given to his fathere years ago.
I wonder if there are any issues in the Central Library.
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Post by planetmalc on Dec 13, 2012 16:38:42 GMT
I got it off ebay, the vendor says it was given to his fathere years ago. I wonder if there are any issues in the Central Library. Yeah, it's so much easier to track stuff down when you know it existed in the first place! Potentially, the follow-up issues could be even more interesting as they're likely to contain a variety of readers' experiences of our old patch.
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