Recent content by Moseley Bill

Those steps were my route to school every day, mom would take me along the path from Commercial St on our way to St Peters school off Broad St when we lived in Blucher St. Sometimes she lifted me up to see the trains in the marshalling yard.

Yes that's my mom, 8th May a date I'll never forget. Violet May Munnerley. I actually lived at 4 back of 60 after I was born in Heathfield Rd Maternity Home for a while before mom and dad were housed in Blucher St until Coronation week when we moved to Moseley.

Funny seeing this in here, my mom who grew up in Lennox St and used to reminisce about her past with Nellie her sister and the name Onions often cropped up in their chats. Mom was Violet Munnerley who had lived in a house we had to go through an entry to, when we went to visit her brother Alf...

My mates and I, with hanging on sister and brother of course, used to play in the field behind there over the river Cole in the early to mid fifties. We always thought it was part of the Aldiss company then because there were lots of pieces of broken glass and signalling 'thing parts' amongst...

Funny to think I am alive because of Hamstead Colliery, my dad was a miner in Hamilton and came to Brum in the thirties to work at Hamstead. He stayed with his cousin in Aston Lane when he came here, as many of those immigrant lads did and when he asked cousin Jimmy Anderson if there was...

Hiya Lyn, yes I know Blucher St was still in occupation up the hill, I even wandered down it during my stupid sessions of playing the wag but I was not so sure about the gas lamps, is all. Its obviously on a flatter piece than 2/57 too and on consideration the kids seem to be wearing long...

I wonder where that alley was Vivienne and when it was taken, not sure I'd believe 1963, we were all out of our bit before the Coronation. So close to the event in fact that Val and I (my little sis) didn't get a coronation mug or any other souvenir, nobody knew we were coming to the estate but...

This set of pictures my mom took a huge long time ago show our home in the distance because Jimmy and I were building houses out of spare bricks which mom thought more important, Jimmy McFadden was my cousin. You can see how much of the housing stock was left, our house on the right and Mrs...

I can't begin to say how thrilled I am at these photos. I lived at 2/57 until we were moved for the flatted factory to begin building The second picture shows a lamp post outside the entry to our 'court' and on the map I can help add some numbers The red marked building is indeed number 57...

Did we all go to Sparkhill Library? I was in there almost every day

Shhh please Lloyd, green and cream or red and cream did not quite fit my dream of a Brummy horse bus, a mate of mine is going to undertake to make a motor bus from a bit later, that will be proper coloured. Can we keep it our secret please. I know that picture of course, I used it to design...

Thank you Lloyd I thought I remembered that from reading the Forum a while back and since the blue theme worked for the time frame even if not under the exact signwriting I used it I am pleased the horse buses could have been blue and cream. Of course I can remember the green dust cars with the...

I wanted the bus to look Brummy so I adapted the Corporation scheme for it, not being sure when blue and cream actually began.

This is one of the beautiful photos I used when I researched my scratch built horse drawn bus model, I did wonder where it was taken. Seeing these new to me pictures I wish I was making another, almost [/url]

And everything past it too huh?