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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 10:24:40 GMT
Steelhouse Lane with the iconic Gaumont Cinema on the right.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 10:25:29 GMT
Steelhouse Lane - Loveday Street island
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 10:27:56 GMT
Perry Barr Village The Crown & Cushion Pub on the left
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 10:29:31 GMT
Rea Street School
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Post by pedro42 on Apr 27, 2014 16:29:36 GMT
A knocker-upper Pete reckons this is Jerry
oooooo...you stirrer, Ray. You'll get me into trouble, you will.
Anyway, Jerry doesn't get up early enough to be a knocker-upper
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Post by pedro42 on Apr 27, 2014 17:43:06 GMT
Town Hall 1960's
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Post by pedro42 on Apr 27, 2014 17:44:02 GMT
Building the Rotunda
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Post by pedro42 on Apr 27, 2014 17:53:52 GMT
Green Lane library 1895. I'm not sure if this early photo has been posted before
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Post by Jerry on Apr 27, 2014 19:13:00 GMT
A knocker-upper Pete reckons this is Jerry
oooooo...you stirrer, Ray. You'll get me into trouble, you will.
Anyway, Jerry doesn't get up early enough to be a knocker-upper
Pete
I once used to be a knocker – upper, waking people up to go to work. I’d tap their windows in the summer sunshine and also in the winter rain and murk I knocked up Pete, a grumpy geezer. Did the early shift at the Beeza. I knocked up Ray, a man of note, did the milk round with a horse drawn float. I knocked up people up and down Grange road, most of whom have passed on But when I knocked up the publican’s daughter I had to move to Aston Jerry
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 20:48:31 GMT
oooooo...you stirrer, Ray. You'll get me into trouble, you will.
Anyway, Jerry doesn't get up early enough to be a knocker-upper
Pete
I once used to be a knocker – upper, waking people up to go to work. I’d tap their windows in the summer sunshine and also in the winter rain and murk I knocked up Pete, a grumpy geezer. Did the early shift at the Beeza. I knocked up Ray, a man of note, did the milk round with a horse drawn float. I knocked up people up and down Grange road, most of whom have passed on But when I knocked up the publican’s daughter I had to move to Aston Jerry Hi Jerry,
A studied verse if I may say so
Speaking to Pete on the phone, he reckons you were run out of Grange Road to Aston, was this what you were trying to get off your chest
Ray.
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Post by daddio on Apr 28, 2014 11:18:50 GMT
Are you serious, was there really 'KNOCKER UPPERS"? If so I think I'm suffering from memory loss. Daddio
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Post by vince on Apr 29, 2014 10:35:57 GMT
Are you serious, was there really 'KNOCKER UPPERS"? If so I think I'm suffering from memory loss. Daddio Cant say I remember knocker uppers, heard of em though. I been told the lamplighter used to do it where I lived, still had gas lamps till about 1964 but I think they had timers by then, still used to see him cleaning the glass, and presumably winding up the timers.
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Post by daddio on May 2, 2014 5:56:09 GMT
Thanks Vince. I certainly remember the lamplighters. I seem to remember they used a wooden ladder that narrowed to a point at the top of the ladder. I also remember helping the my old man to rip out all the house gas lamps and the some of the gas pipes after electricity was put on. Years later after they banned coal fires we had to have some gas pipes re-installed. I think some of the house's down Prince Albert stayed on gas lamps for a few years after the electric was available.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 6:21:44 GMT
Thanks Vince. I certainly remember the lamplighters. I seem to remember they used a wooden ladder that narrowed to a point at the top of the ladder. I also remember helping the my old man to rip out all the house gas lamps and the some of the gas pipes after electricity was put on. Years later after they banned coal fires we had to have some gas pipes re-installed. I think some of the house's down Prince Albert stayed on gas lamps for a few years after the electric was available. Morning Dennis, A couple of pictures of long gone jobs from our youth. Ray.
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