RE: Summer Lane - 3

#31 by lynne webb , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:15 pm

My brother in law worked at the ambulance depot for over 30 years.

#32 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:16 pm

glad you like them jo...where abouts in gt hampton row did you work..

i didnt know that lynne...

#33 by Slow Jo , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:20 pm

Fredrick restall's but it's gone now ,when the gaffer died in an accident ,his sons just wanted the money so it was sold bit by bit.

#34 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:22 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #33
Fredrick restall's but it's gone now ,when the gaffer died in an accident ,his sons just wanted the money so it was sold bit by bit.

jo i dont know why but i always thought restalls was in gt hampton st not row...mind you you should know where you worked

#35 by Sheldonboy , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:24 pm

Does anyone know what year The Ambulance station opened, I didn't realise it had been there so long. our Union of ice was just around the corner in Lower Tower Street.

#36 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:29 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35
Does anyone know what year The Ambulance station opened, I didn't realise it had been there so long. our Union of ice was just around the corner in Lower Tower Street.

sorry cant help with that one but if i get time tomorrow i will check me kellys for you...

#37 by Sheldonboy , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:30 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #36
Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35
Does anyone know what year The Ambulance station opened, I didn't realise it had been there so long. our Union of ice was just around the corner in Lower Tower Street.

sorry cant help with that one but if i get time tomorrow i will check me kellys for you...

Thank you so much Maam

#38 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:31 pm

and here is a full pic of the woolpack i mentioned in earlier post..

#39 by Sheldonboy , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:34 pm

Quote: astoness wrote in post #38
and here is a full pic of the woolpack i mentioned in earlier post..

great picture What is the Woolpack now, (a restaurant)?

#40 by Slow Jo , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:41 pm

Where was the woolpack ,I thought it was in emmerdale .

#41 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:52 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #39
Quote: astoness wrote in post #38
and here is a full pic of the woolpack i mentioned in earlier post..

great picture What is the Woolpack now, (a restaurant)?

oh dont go there SB out of the 15 pubs that were on summer lane in the 60s only 3 remain and they are not pubs anymore..the barrel..the stag and the royal george..

#42 by astoness , Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:22 pm

couple more summer lane pics tomorrow folks...considering how long it was photos are very hard to come by...

#43 by Voltman , Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:20 am

Those Ambulances are classy looking motors, judging by the radiator ornaments, which look like flying A's, they must be Austins.

#44 by mikejee , Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:31 am

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35
Does anyone know what year The Ambulance station opened, I didn't realise it had been there so long. our Union office was just around the corner in Lower Tower Street.

I appears in Kellys between the 1950 and 1955 editions. In 1950 it was British Road Services on the site

#45 by astoness , Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:30 am

Quote: mikejee wrote in post #44
Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35
Does anyone know what year The Ambulance station opened, I didn't realise it had been there so long. our Union of ice was just around the corner in Lower Tower Street.

I appears in Kellys between the 1950 and 1955 editions. In 1950 it was British Road Services on the site

thanks mike

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