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Do you still wear that earing that Frank told you not to ? :)

Just browsing this thread again to again see this. Graham Ford poor chap suffered an uncureable brain tumour in 1986.

That's tickled the little grey cells. In 2010, didn't 2 come over here ? I was working in Wolverhampton at the time.

It passed over the Wolverhampton site about the same time. Do I recall correctly, it met with disaster not long after it went back to the USA ?

Colin moved on from Cannings D.O. to the Gas Board. That would be about 1980, long time ago so not sure.

Try Society of Genealogists. You may have more luck.

Paddy would frequently come out with a number of mind boggling phrases as you were talking to him. Phrases such as auchta muckty, hum de la haa, the higher they fly the fewer.

Two different people, Ken Vickers and Joe Vickerstaff.

C.F. Resting was Danish born, a manager at F.W. Woolworth and employed variously a maid and a chauffer.

28 Groups up to date, and a good mix for historians.

An event after the "main week" so not on the Birmingham Heritage Week website, I am sure will be just as educational and informative - Birmingham History Fair 25th September at the Midland Arts Centre.

In the Engineering D.O. we would have go see Wilf in the Tech centre to get advice on effluent treatment, handling and disposal. He would always be referred to as Have Gulley, Will Flow.

Just remembered some other names as well as Sid Willets the shop gaffer. Johnny Jukes, Chris Leather, Cyril Collins

The Triumph Herald parked on the double yellow lines outside the Gothic should be getting a ticket by now, plus it's MOT is well overdue, 1st May 1986

The demolition put a stop to those old moaners always complaining about the draught from the open windows.

Seeing the railings in the pics with the Minerva pub, brings back some memories. They formed the edge of all the car parks at Cannings You can see the railings were made from RS channel uprights and lengths of scaffolding tube. In that view by the Minerva, at the near end a sliding version of...

The plant layout drawing would likely be numbered LJ/........ 4 digits and could also have /..... suffix. I recall Rodney C-D, always reminded me of David Niven, very dapper. Always polite. Rodney and I went to Japan together for about 10 days.

Tks Mark for these. What a memory jogger. I spent 20 years of my life in that building. Pic 1 - View down Mott Street The iron sliding gate gave access to the tank loading bay and cycle sheds. I used to park my 650 BSA there. The fire escape gave easy quick exit at lunch times for any drawing...

Looking like Oct 69

Sid Willets Tom McKnight, then Ray Rudge, then Moss Taylor then Ken Vickers. Might have the order of these latter a bit mixed. Didn't Joe Vickerstaff do a turn also ? Tom McKnight got killed when he was bowled over by a car. He was off on his hols to N. Wales or someplace, when in getting a...