Recent content by jjgriffin

Hi jules i don't know if you still peruse this forum, but i picked up on T Elvins and Sons, i worked for them in the late 60,s my brother in law david myatt got me a job as an improver brickie, my first job was in walsall at sydney brown's furniture shop, then the new boiler house for sandwell...

hi pebab, i also worked at wrensons around 1965, i was at the bearwood branch, i cant remember the managers name, i did the bacon cutting and ham boning, unwrapping the big cheeses, i also used to deliver the groceries to the posh people up lightwoods hill on the bike, i remember once being sent...

i am pretty sure it was Nova Scotia

Can anyone trace the above name for me, i know he was a navigator on Lancasters towards the end of WW2, he did his training in Canada and he showed me a picture and one of his mates was Bert Weedon (Guitarist and Teacher), he said he was involved in missions over Dresden and took no pleasure...

thanks for the pics carolina, very interesting, my girlfriend and wife now of 43 years lived in a back to back in Park road, with the entry in Whitmore street, would you have a picture of the top right of Whitmore street by any chance, thanks john

hi again lyn, how can i access your pictures, thanks john

Hi master brummie, like the picture, it looks like the opposite side of the road to where eva lived,you had to go through a gate to get to the back to back houses which were backed onto park road, cheers john

Hi Lyn thanks for replying, i didnt live there but Eva my wife lived there in the fifties and sixties

Hi everyone, has anyone pictures of Whitmore St Hockley, 50's - 60's, many thanks john