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Introduction
Building
House description
The garden
The garage
Improvements
Neighbours
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| The neighbours down
the hill at No. 40 were Mr & Mrs Geary. They had a car which was
kept in the garage for most of its life - memory recalls a green Wolsley
1500. The Gearys were Christadelphians and the car was taken out to
drive to the chapel in Pedmore Road on a Sunday. When they came
back it was washed, dried off and put back in the garage until the
next week. During and after the war they
had a pig sty at the bottom of their garden and kept a pig - not that
unusual in the Midlands. By the 1950s this had stopped with the
pig sty remaining as a memory of times past. It always seemed a
small area to house a fairly large animal. |
1961 - Mr Geary in the
background |
On the other side the gap site was built on but, as
the houses in the road had been consecutively numbered was numbered 36a.
This was occupied by the Worton family into the 1960s and then by two men,
Al and Frank. Nora, without prejudice, found them pleasant and
friendly neighbours, always ready to help. They enjoyed their large garden growing lots of
produce, though on occasion they must have despaired the times when our
garden became overgrown with weeds and the seeds drifted over to their
garden. |
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