Recent content by odeonmillfield

Hello, thanks for prompt reply. I remember the VOLs as each Saturday for 6 weeks, I did the 'BARMOUTH' holiday express. Departing Stockland Green @0845 and returning from Barmouth @1400hrs. Being a holiday service I had a uniform. A White coat that came down to the knees. Being a hilly journey...

I remember the TIM machine. I was Based at Miller Street in the mid 60s. It was issued to me for a six months trial. I found it lighter, quicker and easies to use than the normal machine of that time, Roy Gregory 59989 Conductor and 47649 Driver.

Hello, I drove for Stockland Coaches in 1963/4. Lots of fragmented memories, One of the brothers was into drag racing and the car was tested in the garage which was emptied and the coaches parked in the road at the back of the garage. Anyone got memories of VOL 1,2,3 and 4. I remember Stan, John...

;)I used to go to school between 1953 and 1957 in Slade Road, next to the Star. What a luxury, out at 4.30 and start a queue at the 'STAR' Happy memories, Any school friends remember me, Roy Gregory. Before demolition the film studio belonged to Birmingham Commercial Films. They held a few open...

My Mom used to travel from Stockland Green every Friday, to Aston Cross, on the 78 tram, to go to Thompsons for the weekly supply of PORK SAUSAGES. I can still taste them now! Regards Roy Gregory

Esteemed Ladies and Gentlemen, Transporting me back to the late 40s, in Short Heath, (just down the hill to the 78 tram terminus) Edgware Rooad actually, between 12.55 and 1 oclock we heard every weekday the sounds of deep 'steam whistles'. they came across rpoughly or roughly from the Witton...

Many a young teenager looked maybe to'loose' something at the back of Rackhams, but now at 69 I can't remember what it was I would enjoy losing. A true brummie to me was being educated in Brum from infants through junior and on to seniors. I am Roy Gregory, went to Marsh Hill infants and...