Recent content by mikeflan

I moved to West Sussex some 25 years ago and renovating the garden I came across a salt glazed pipe in the way, so removing it revealed a makers name....I Googled the company and they were in Poole Dorset many years ago and the surprise was....they had a fleet of old Birmingham Corporation buses...

Yes and no RAAC in those buildings either !!! have we really progressed ????

And the one we got the train to Tamworth on

How brilliant of you and you have also brought back some wonderful memories that are exactly the same as mine.....remember that waste truck at the end of the platform and that never put us off either........I can still see my first Scot of the Glasgow ....the sun was shining and lit up the red...

Yeah me too...but 1953 to about '56 and also Tamworth field..OMG the memories...we had the best of the years

Amazing shot of the period, I see where I used to nip up Queens Drive and across Worcester Street to the Market Hall for a saucer of Cockles....between train spotting.......thanks for that brummy-lad

Thank you Lloyd that's quite a help. just trying to create the back drop for a model of the first Scot I saw there....just so memorable and I'm just doing an 0 gauge model of it back in 1953 and they had red backed nameplates back then , not black as BR did them in the later 1950's......

I'm certain I'm on an impossible task here , but does anyone have a photo of Platform 3 taken from Platform 6 without any locos in the shot and would be possibly 1950's era......? it may possibly have the back view of Queens Hotel as well and although , too much to be expected to be a colour...

I did see a photo of I think Princess Alice 1951 in New Street Station....with sloping smokebox too....you may well find it still about somewhere

As a spotter of those days all sorts of stories were about, they hit the tunnel with the chimney...they couldn't make the curves of the bends leading to New St.....and so on...but...did we have the traffic that called to pull a loco off the London to Northern regions to warrant a Semi being put...

Bunked that shed a few times and got called some names.....unknown to me at the time what they meant ha ha

Me too

What a superb shot and such a reminder of ...how many hours did I spend on this spot...spotting ???

And when they'd had their life....the Fairground and Circus folk loved them to live in.......always great to see them in their retirement ...if one could call it that