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    Newhall Valley Country Park

    Lovely photos again Mark. Thank you.
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    Bus Conductor uniform and ID badge

    Lynn Given the year I'm reasonably sure she would have been a conductor. I don't think they had women drivers in the early 1950s. Clive
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    Bus Conductor uniform and ID badge

    That badge with a DD prefix is a bona fide badge for a bus driver of conductor. If it has a red surround it's a driver. If it has a green surround it's a conductor.
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    Central Hall Corporation Street

    In the 1960s along with many others, I sat my Civil Service entry competition exams at Central Hall as did my wife. It's always held a special place in my memory. Daunting at the time of course. I never understood where the word "competition" figured in the procedure but it certainly did!
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    Newhall Valley Country Park

    New Hall Valley is Sutton Coldfield's second jewel in nature's crown hundreds of years after Sutton Park. It's amazing that it's been created, both formally and naturally in less than thirty years. Of course, the natural part, Ebrook and Plantsbrook were always there to be developed but those of...
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    Coleshill Street 1930's

    I qualified to work for the civil service in my final year at school in 1962. I was directed to the GPO and my first job was on the Post Office counter at the post office at 79/80 Coleshill Street. It was a rather quiet post office apart from Thursdays as that was pension day and there were...
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    The corner sweet shop

    I'm another former Yardley Grammar School pupil, 1957-62 and I have fond memories of the tuck shop and Mr and Mrs Woolley. My fading memory tells me that they hadn't been at the shop very long before I arrived at the school. Lovely people who I'm sure had infinite patience to cope with all those...
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    Grammar Schools and Saturday Attendance

    Saturday morning detention at Yardley Grammar School around 1960 for either playing football in the lunch break or caught smoking or both. Dear me - misspent youth!
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    adverse weather 2024/2025

    Settling already here in Sutton Coldfield and heavy snow predicted throughout the night. Expect to find a fair coating in the morning.
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    Beverly Hotel, Stratford road, Sparkhill.

    Janice. The bus stops I'm referring to are those just short of Palmerston Road and far enough away from that corner to allow the 13 and 13a to make a right hand turn into Stoney Lane before Stoney Lane was re-routed to opposite Walford Road. I think the hotel was just before the bus stops coming...
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    Beverly Hotel, Stratford road, Sparkhill.

    Yes it was by the bus stops. It certainly wasn't a high class establishment.
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    Beverly Hotel, Stratford road, Sparkhill.

    I remember it. Next door to the Baptist church which was on the corner of Stratford Road and Palmerston Road, Sparkbrook
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    Longbridge Factory

    Sorry JonJB. I don't have that information.
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    Longbridge Factory

    In my years in the North Works machine shop the castings we were working on were A series, B series and, from circa 1978, O series. I hope that helps.
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    Longbridge Factory

    I worked in the North Works machine shop and was gone by 1979. I had friends and acquaintances all over the plant and I'm not aware of a foundry in the East Works in my time there. However the factory was running for 26 years after I left and I couldn't vouch for the years after I left. I just...
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