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    Courtyards and yards of brum

    Hi Terry; Armoury Road, do you know the house numbers where your ancestors were living? We of the Harrison family lived at number 44. Cheers M
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    Courtyards and yards of brum

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    Courtyards and yards of brum

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    Lucas Shaftmoor Lane Branch Works 3

    I worked in BW3 for about 12 years leaving in 1990, for most of that time I was a tool setter on the starter armature shafts centre-less grinding section. There were a great many long service people working there and the factory had a good working atmosphere with due allowance for one or two...
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    Midland Red Around Birmingham.

    I would never park a bus at Dorridge Station without using the chock; we could never be too careful. Once when parked on the level at the 154 terminus in Solihull, I was sat in the lower saloon talking to my mate when the hanbrake released itself.....As for chocks that were lost, the solid...
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    Midland Red Around Birmingham.

    Adept Brummie, The three D9s are 'on the patch' at Digbeth. I collected the bus for my very first 'turn' one dark winter morning in January 1970. ExMidlandRed
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    Travelling the 'wrong way' over Camp Hill Flyover.

    I actually witnessed such an incident at first hand. I was working a service from the Bull Ring bus station on a summer evening in the early 1970's, the bus itself was a saloon. We had just reached the right hand curve at the top of the flyover when a black Rover 3 Litre was spotted coming...
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