Recent content by John L

To be fair, I have seen that done recently and driver's stopping between bus stops too, where the WM passenger is a regular and isn't as mobile as he or she once was.

An "open and shut" case indeed. :( (to quote The Black Country Hunter @ #44).

I hope you had a great day.

Sorry I'm a day late.

Was it called Global Warming then? :cool:

Hope you had a good one! :party:

The café on Worcester Beacon photographed in 1963 and sadly destroyed by fire in 1989:

Some further photographs of the Worcester Beacon:

It would just have been the place for my decorating skills, I never could line up the pattern so it was straight... ;)

There is one on at Pype Hayes Park at the moment (see below) and a visit to that, might help your son compare and contrast a fair of today with those of yesteryear, in his project. Lots of photographs along with member's memories, can be found on previous threads, searching at the top right of...

Spoiler alert: The BSA factory bombing is featured in the new Peaky Blinders film and at the end, the film itself is dedicated to those that lost their lives when the BSA was bombed.

Villa have sadly lost two of our former players recently on 27th March Alex Cropley died aged 75 and two days earlier on 25th March we lost Geoff Vowden, who was aged 84 and had earlier made 221 appearances, scoring 79 goals for Birmingham City. Geoff left St Andrews for Villa Park in March 1971...

I remember that too, we often used to come back from the game as muddy as the players were.

An interesting piece is coming up for auction next month. An official programme dating back to 23rd October 1909, when Villa beat Bradford City 3-1 with their goals coming from Albert Hall, William Gerrish and Harry Hampton. Villa finished league champions that season. 18,000 were at the game...