tarboat's photos with the keyword: bicycles

Castle Chambers, Opie St, Norwich, were buily in 1877 for solicitor Sydney Cozens-Hardy who had founded his practice in 1873. The building features yellow/buff brick with terracotta decoration and is listed Grade II. The firm of Cozens-Hardy LLP continues to occupy the building.

It may be selling textiles now, but this shop at 10 Mount Pleasant, Bilston, clearly offered cassettes and cds not so long ago. The painted adverts are a reminder that this was once Hartill's motorbike and cycle shop. Abraham Hartill opened the shop in 1937, having moved from a smaller unit in the same block. He sold mainly second-hand motorcycles, some fifteen or so a week. Bicycles were also sold, and hire purchase facilities were provided. The sale of spares and provision for repairs completed the service. Hartills still operate a motorcycle repair business and MOT station on Caledonia Street at the rear of these premises.

The collection of small pieces of coal and semi-coal from the waste material has been developed into a highly organised activity on the Xinghua colliery tips. Every trainload of material is sifted by the picking gangs who operate not only on the level summit area but also on the steep and dangerous slope on the other side of the tracks. There was a constant stream of people wheeling away sacks of material balanced on the crossbar of their bicycles.