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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2012 19:42:01 GMT
Hello Anne Thank you for remembering that the co-op was on the opposite side of the road to the old Baptist Chapel I was beginning to think there was no-one out there that could remember it only my family, friends and the one Allen named, of whom I don’t recognize. I didn’t know you to speak to but I would see you and you family go by are house to and from the village. We moved into the mill house October 1950 so only a few month before you moved to Canada. You may have known my late wife Shirley Phillips she lived and when to school in the village she was twelve months old than you, I did know you granddad and uncle Frank as the school holidays whitsun 1951 I when to lower rectory farm for a job worked that holidays, Saturday mornings and the summer holidays, the best time was the last two weeks getting the harvest to the rick yard, heaven for a young 14 year old lad driving tractors all day from nine in the morning until eight at night. Regards Walter PS. Nice to have a little stroll down memory lane.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2012 21:13:41 GMT
The latest photo of the Black Horse sent by Len Phillips has a Midland Red SOS type in the background - I will study this photo more closely and come back with some dates and more information.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2012 21:36:56 GMT
I've further studied the Black Horse Photo. The Bus is an SOS Standard which were built between 1923 and 1926 and it is showing PRIVATE on the destination board on the front above the bonnet. I would suggest that the photo is taken before 1930 as more modern vehicles would have been used for Private Hires by that date, by which the S types were becoming time expired, a number having been rebuilt as ODD types. If the vehicle is on a private hire then the use of a saloon rather than a charabanc type is interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 11:23:25 GMT
I wonder if this is not a family outing from Birmingham to visit the Black Horse with Midland "Red" providing the bus???
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 19:56:28 GMT
The X99 is mentioned with regard to visits to Appleby. It did not of course run via Burton on Trent but via Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 22:14:36 GMT
I have certainly discussed before the possible date for the fire at the Black Horse. 5th September 1930 has been suggested by my Mother - has anybody else been able to throw any more light on this?
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Post by Chris on Aug 11, 2012 10:22:28 GMT
Google is your friend (other search engines are available). ;D According to "The British Newspaper Archive", on September 10th 1932 the Tamworth Herald carried an article entitled - "Fire at Ancient Inn at Appleby Magna" The article began by saying "On Sunday last the landlord ....", but as I'm not a subscriber I couldn't see any more of the article. "Sunday last" from the 10th in 1932 was September the 4th. So the fire at the Black Horse was possibly Sunday September the 4th 1932. Chris EDIT - I have managed to get hold of a copy of the newspaper article - quite difficult to read (faint print) - but interesting, so I will type it up when I get a chance.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 21:01:28 GMT
Excellent - Mum thought it was around then as furniture from the pub was stored for ages in the big (unused) front room at Hill House across the road. She would have been 13 at the time and attending Ashby Grammar School - she remembers the workers rebuilding the pub calling at the girls when they got off Moore's bus coming back from School.
This means that the Ellis picture has to be before 4/9/32!
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