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Yes I too enjoyed those seaside caravan holidays. Bedtime was a ritual of almost dismantling the caravan and building beds while climbing over each other. The sea was a walk across a field, over a railway bridge where we would stop if a steam train was passing and fill our lungs with that most...

I too have some happy holiday memories of Rhyl. Severn Beach, Weston Super Mare and Rhyl were favourite holiday destinations for Brummies. A lot of people from Liverpool would also go to Rhyl too. We would travel by train (the station is still there), and occasionally by Stockland Coaches...

Yes, its being filmed in Stoke on Trent, they have a lot more historic building apparently

I don't know what happened to the heated roadway, it was one of the new fangled features of the time but how effective it was or is anyone guess

You can just copy and paste the link in your response. that will work fine

Happy birthday Janice, hope you have an amazing day x

I do have an eBike and in all fairness I am still impressed with it 5 years down the line. However that option I think is one of the better alternatives and I imagine safe too

It may be worth exploring this option, the Swytch Bike conversion: https://www.swytchbike.com/ I have only ever seen one of these but they do seem to have an ok reputation.

They built an electric car too, one in the Science Museum at Millennium Point. It had a plywood body.

To be legal in the UK power should only be fed to the motors when peddling and limited to and 15.5 mph whereas the power shut off. So the electric unit would have to go on the back wheel to be compliant. The reason why care of choice for home made kits are problems when charging resulting in...

Ok into your search box at the bottom toolbar type "mrt" click the "run as administrator". You may get the user account protection window popup, just click "yes" then another dialogue box will open with the malicious removal tool. Select a full scan and leave it to scan your computer for...

You can always pop a few stones in the tray for the bees as wasps to climb out.

Aston Unity were playing at a field of Goosemore Lane Erdington to the 70's and maybe beyond.

I don't recall those van but I do recall that some schools cooked diners for other schools without kitchens. They would pack the freshly cooked food each day into large square aluminium insulated containers. Court Farm School, Short Heath, Erdington cooked for other schools.

I can remember the Osram Riverworks between Tame Road and Witton Road. It used to run a twilight sift with an army of women working assembling light fitting. My mum was a regular there.