Whats a steery?
You know your old when some kid ask ya whats a Steery.
Its a plank of wood with two struts sticking out at each end of the plank,the back one was nailed to the plank and the front one was affixed to the front of the plank by a big nut&bolt,the axles were nailed to the struts and the wheels were obtained from housies prams which were robbed outside the washouses....lookout havelock street here I come.
It was short for a steering cart.Originally Posted by George
You know your old when some kid ask ya whats a Steery.
Its a plank of wood with two struts sticking out at each end of the plank,the back one was nailed to the plank and the front one was affixed to the front of the plank by a big nut&bolt,the axles were nailed to the struts and the wheels were obtained from housies prams which were robbed outside the washouses....lookout havelock street here I come.
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Our Da made us boss steeries
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Does anyone remember what a candle waxed board was used for?
Was for sliding down the steep decliningt streets around nethy area.
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Is a steery the same as a goey?
Dunno? different districts had different names for things like a Jigger was the name for an entry where I was born and elsewhere it was called an enog.
My wife says enog now
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You wern't from Lodgy were you?
We always said enog for entry.
"Oller" for waste ground or as they say here in Garston a "Bank".
Don't forget your steery had to have big wheels at the back and small ones at the front to make it go faster ???
The basic requirements for steery was an old pram, plus 3 pieces of wood.
plenty of nails which had to be at least 3 inches long and 1 bolt.
The tool required were a hammer and a poker as we never owned drills when I was young.
The pram supplied the wheels and the axles,the wood was a piece for the chassis and 2 pieces for attaching the axles to.
You attached the axles to the wood with a line of nails each side driven into the wood leaving enough nail showing to be bent over the axle.
The back axle was then nailed onto the chassis
The poker was heated up till red hot then a hole burnt into the chassis and the front axle bearing wood then the bolt was dropped in.
Various refinements were added later on like a rear brake,a seat made out of an orange box
This is where the famous Soap Box Derby which was held annually originated from.
We used to ride ours down Sandhills Lane as it is a good incline
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Never had a hammer, half a house brick.
No good for handling though, especially trying to turn a little at high speed.Don't forget your steery had to have big wheels at the back and small ones at the front to make it go faster ???
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Don't forget the hole , where the nut and bolt went, for steering.
That hole had to be made with a RED HOT POKER.It took a while.Me dad said it made the wood hard and so it didn't turn into a great big hole. Oh, and drills were too dangerous for us kids. Errrr...
Good road test, either Beacon lane , or the new tarmac car park in stanley park. It was smooth , then.... late sixties i think.
Got up some mad speed in the car park, so much that we had to jump off the steerie before it smashed to bits in the railings on Priory road....scabby knees again!
Pffft" ya wimp,this was the territory for steeries....Havelock Street
I lived in Toxteth until I was 10, Mozart Street at the bottom of Lodge Lane, back entries were called Jiggers in the 40's, and we had steery races, the Birrell brothers from Holdens shop on Lodge Lane were ace steery makers. I moved to Garston in 1952, we did'nt have any jiggers in the Tennies, it back alleys or enogs, and being a tenement kid we very rarely got to going in back alleys ,they were all in "enemy" territory . But what about your tyres, did'nt any have an old car tyre that they used to punt with a short stick ? You'd see kids in the street showing their wheels off to other kids, some poor sods only had old bike wheel, no tyres, no spokes ,just a rim really. And then there were the bike frames,no pedals,no brakes, no seat ,no tyres, ,we used to use them like skooters, one foot on the part where there should have been a pedal and the other foot used to propel yourself along. Those streets in Everton were ideal for freewheeling down. A guy I sailed with in the 60's told me he had a bike like I've just described, he got on it in a street by St Georges church and freewheeled downhill toward Great Homer Street. As he gathered speed he put both feet on the frame and shot downhill; it was as he approached the bottom that he realised he had no way of stopping, he crossed Great Homer street to the sound of screams and motor horns. When he came to a halt on the other side of Great Homer Street he dropped the frame and fled. Teddy Woods was his name,he'd be about 70 now,a great character.
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