RE: OUR MEMORIES OF GROWING UP - 5

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #61

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Two more things i recall do any of you remember british rail having horse and carts,they delivered and collected big items to go by rail ,there stable yard was i think it's called pitsford hill,in icknield street under the railway bridge and left turn up a steep hill the old cobbled road use to be bad for horses ,so they had a little truck called the tug the horses waited under the bridges down it came hooked up the cart in front of the horse took them up the hill doing all the pulling the horse just had to walk up ,no slipping easy for them. Also as a kid in the war every sunday morning tanks made at saltley carriage works came up villa road,under there own power it was a must to go and watch the tanks go by,on there to icknield street goods yard,off to where they were needed.

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Hi Slow Jo and Sheldonboy
Fancy bringing up about the Railway horses, This opening you're talking about was in All Saints Street and belonged to 'Gods Wonderful Railway' (G.W.R) it was in this opening that I was run over by car,fortunately (or unfortunately) it stopped on my foot, I believe I was on the way to All Saints School, just along the way, I was only five years of age possibly my first day of going to school. My father worked at the goods yard in Pitsford Street. As I used to live in that area it brought back great memories, not that I have ever forgotten my childhood in that area.
Brookieboy

I thought it would have had to have been one or the other. The great Western Railway was probably one of the smartest in the world.
This is one of their early engines.

just posting some pics for jo of what i think was the goods yard in pitsford st showing the old stables known as hockley port so im not sure if i am right but its situated at the very top of pitsford st.. i took these 4 years back..may interest you as well norm..

lyn