Recent content by Enel

Also St Silas’ School annex for the final two years at that school.

I can remember this particular chore from my time as an apprentice in 2DO. Some of the draffies mugs were quite disgusting, and once I realised that I’d have to handle them every day, I set to work with some sort of kitchen cleaner. By the time I’d finished, they gleamed, apart from one, which...

My first reaction on reading about this project, was to check the date! I suspect however, from the way that it is to be funded, that it will never be completed.

8 Fascinating. The red circle is where Canterbury house now stands. This was my place of work during the seventies. Further up appears to be Lancaster house under construction.

When I lived in Lozells back in the sixties, I can remember seeing one of these parked up somewhere near Carpenters road/Lozells road. I loved its streamlined appearance, but knew nothing about the brand then, nor of its history. When I moved to Suffolk about fifteen years ago, I learned from my...

I can’t recall my school organising regular visits to workplaces, but in my last year before leaving I visited a couple of factories as part of a small group. The one that sticks in my mind was Linread. Somewhere near Livery St. I think. Linreads made fasteners by cold forging, and the din on...

I was bemused to see the poster advertising GEC vacancies in photo no. 2. Little did I realise back then that I would end up there after school.

Thanks for these photos Lyn. A reminder of my journey to school down Church St. and across to Wellesley St. The number 8 bus stop when going to Small Heath, visiting Nan and Granpa, and many other memories of the area. Fantastic.

Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers perhaps.

This may well pre-date the rebuild, but for some time now, I have found the page buttons unresponsive when using the forum on my iPad (Safari). It’s a bit random really. Sometimes ‘next’ will work but, but not ‘previous’, and sometimes the number buttons will work counting down but not up. I had...

This one is above the entry between 41 and 39 St Silas’ Square. Rather indistinct in this screenshot, but from memory, reads ‘Maldwyn Place’. I lived nearby, and as far as I can remember, this was the only entry lintel with an incised name.

Seeing butchers mentioned in another thread reminded me of Len. He used to call my mom ‘Isobel’. I think that he must have had a pet name for all of his customers! One of his sayings was “God sends the butchers and the Devil sends the cooks”

Still heard occasionally, but not as common as it once was in these parts - “boy”. What really winds me up though is being called ”mate”.

I still have my Webley ‘Jaguar’ air rifle - a birthday present from 1964. This was a junior weapon, and came with a bottle of oil, pellets, and a target holder with paper targets. It’s definitely a budget rifle, not particularly accurate but gave my brother and me hours of fun ‘plinking’ tin...

I listened to a recent BBC programme about the psychology of a fraud, and it brought back unwelcome memories of how I was duped by an ‘authorised push payment’ fraudster a couple of years ago. At the time, this type of fraud was I think, not so widespread as now. I got away lightly, since I lost...