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Who needs Sid James and his pipe? Mr Needham pioneering the Peaky Blinders look. And smack in the middle, no idea we had Stan Laurel playing for us back then.
 


Great photo. Presuming this is Haymarket as the Castle Market is being constructed. Couple of observations.

Looks as though Timpsons ended up moving as they always had the corner spot opposite the Castle Market entrance.

In the 1960's we almost had two town centres with two Woolworths, two BHS and two Marks and Spencers.

Now totally non PC, but there weren't many obese people about in those days.
 

Back row from left Armfield, Norman, Bobby Robson, Swan, Hodgy, Springett, Howe, Flowers, ??, Wilson, Moore
Front Row from left ??, ??, Eastham, Connelly, Greaves, Kay, Haynes, Charlton, Douglas.

The 1966 World Cup team could have looked so different if there hadn't been the 1958 Munich disaster and the Wednesday betting scandal.
 
Back row from left Armfield, Norman, Bobby Robson, Swan, Hodgy, Springett, Howe, Flowers, ??, Wilson, Moore
Front Row from left ??, ??, Eastham, Connelly, Greaves, Kay, Haynes, Charlton, Douglas.

The 1966 World Cup team could have looked so different if there hadn't been the 1958 Munich disaster and the Wednesday betting scandal.
Stan Anderson (back row). Alan Peacock and Roger Hunt on the left of the front row. That is Gerry Hitchens not Tony Kay
 
The second lamp post up is on the corner of Earsham St. You're correct, it is Forncett St. When I played on there, there was a decent sized concrete air raid shelter, complete with gas masks and other WW11rubbish. Got many a cut and bruise playing in there. Used to play football on the Olla, well that's how it was said. Moved from Earsham St to Lowedges in 1958. Was like moving to a different world with fields and trees to play in instead of that old air raid shelter and a muck heap for a football pitch.
I was born 1957 at home in Thorndon Road (front room, not actually in the road) one road up from earsham.
 
Great photo. Presuming this is Haymarket as the Castle Market is being constructed. Couple of observations.

Looks as though Timpsons ended up moving as they always had the corner spot opposite the Castle Market entrance.

In the 1960's we almost had two town centres with two Woolworths, two BHS and two Marks and Spencers.

Now totally non PC, but there weren't many obese people about in those days.

The block in that photo where Timpsons was was renovated in order create a gallery like the one opposite on the actual CastleMarket building. That's when they moved and Woolworths was modernised and I think enlarged.
 

I love to drop into the thread every now and again. Thanks again OP :)
 
full of coal?
no that was in the bunker
we had an inside , sort of , toilet , was across from the kitchen rear door the other side of the vestibule
on Fretson road , when they were new houses in the early fifties, We had one of those new fangled bathrooms
but had kept the tub
 

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