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Found at last

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Peter Walker

gone but not forgotten
Forty five years ago I bought a useful little book entitled 'Transport in West Bromwich', written by Arnold Mason and published that year by the Omnibus Society, of which I was then a member. It was only 40 pages thick and the old quarto format (about 8 x 10 inches) and, after I catalogued all my books over ten years ago, I lost it. It would have come in useful when I was writing about bus routes in Birmingham, and West Brom buses ran into Great Barr and through Kingstanding to Sutton, I have been trying for some time to find it again.
Tonight I was sorting through some old stuff to find something for tomorrow's recycling collection, and spotted this little book. It's certainly made my day.
Peter
 
I am so pleased you found your little book Peter. I found it strange when I read the bus route. My mother was born in West Brom moved to Great Barr and then to Sutton. I remember as a child we would get a bus in to Sutton and then I think it was a Walsall bus to Great Barr where my Nan lived.
 
west brom buses

hi Bren
i lived in Kingstanding and used to drive midland red buses from Sutton Coldfield Depot i traveled on the West brom bus to Sutton most days Allen
 
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