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Chummy in Cowley - Tony Griffiths - 16-01-2022
Chummy in Cowley
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Steve kay - 16-01-2022
Splendid historical statement. Chummy still evident in Cowley, but not a Bullnose, ohc Minor or Eight to be seen! Unless of course, the Chummy was sent there by computer in which case we'll soon have pictures of fleets of Morrises at Longbridge, Brooklands and in the paddock at Shelsley.
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Erich - 16-01-2022
One of many things I like about this photo is the comparative lack of change. Not in a negative way. Driving through a small bedroom community of Seattle where I grew up, with farms and pastures and in which the tallest building was a modernist structure of six stories, today, I was confronted with sky scrapers and developments. Traffic in the thousands. Time to move to the countryside, if that still exists.
Erich in Mukilteo
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Andy Bennett - 16-01-2022
Assuming they haven't been added as per the chummy in the second picture, on the original what are those double lines? I understood double yellows were introduced in the 60s or is that picture a lot later than it might appear?
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Mike Costigan - 16-01-2022
They're a double row of granite setts, a common feature of road edges.
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Andy Bennett - 16-01-2022
Ah right, were they to add wear resistance to the edges or emphasise demarcation between pedestrians and road users when there perhaps weren't generally defined pavements?
RE: Chummy in Cowley - John Cornforth - 16-01-2022
Are the double lines not a form of Braille to mark the road edge for drivers using Austin Seven headlights at night ?
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Mike Costigan - 16-01-2022
I don't think there were any thoughts of emphasising the demarcation of pedestrians and road vehicles - there was usually a substantial kerbside to do that. It seems to have been the convention to finish cobbled streets with edging like this - here's a pic from the Gallery of Berwick on Tweed which shows this:
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Even today it seems to be traditional to lay a contrasting edging to block paving:
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I suspect it may have been easier and neater to lay a row of setts rather than trying to spread tarmac up to the pavement edge, maybe we have a civil engineer amongst us who would like to comment?
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Malcolm Parker - 16-01-2022
In the olden days the street edges were swept by the appropriately named street cleaners. A double row of smooth granite setts was probably the best surface to sweep. Tarmac laid up to the kerb at the edge of a pavement would have a tendency to get washed away with heavy rain, granite setts will last forever.
RE: Chummy in Cowley - Tony Griffiths - 16-01-2022
(16-01-2022, 07:38 AM)Steve kay Wrote: Splendid historical statement. Chummy still evident in Cowley, but not a Bullnose, ohc Minor or Eight to be seen! Unless of course, the Chummy was sent there by computer in which case we'll soon have pictures of fleets of Morrises at Longbridge, Brooklands and in the paddock at Shelsley.No, it's an original postcard - the image pinched from eBay. I'd not noticed the double-edging to the side of the road (it must have been a considerable additional expense) - you learn something every day.