Recent content by Pedro42

I don't know if theses links have been added before but here is a good site for radio memories together with quite a few old recordings http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/radio/index.htm Many of the old radio programmes mentioned above were also recorded on early TV. This is a good site to see...

An old pal of mine, and a ex member of this site "Berniew", started as an apprentice electrician with Dowding and Mills around 1964 and worked there for most of his working life. Sadly Bernie is no longer with us.

Some more photos of the Arthur Street/Coventry Road bus/tram depot and its environs

If you are lucky enough to find where your ancestors are buried, gravestones sometimes yield information that you were not aware of. Adjacent gravestones can also be of help I would recommend that you do not trust other peoples' trees on Ancestry, or Find My Past. even though they may contain...

More photos of Duddeston Mill Road

Here's another photo of the same Adderley street location..and a coloured version Pete

Two more photos of Charles Road ......

Blake Lane photos

The ultimate (lunacy??) in jet cars....

Noel Penny was instrumental in the design of the gas turbine engine used in Jet 1. He lived in Coventry and died in 2013, see attached article https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-turbine-pioneer-dies-aged-4288252

Acocks Green - Warwick Road. Red Lion is on the LHS, and the Picture Playhouse is in the distance on the corner of Station Road

I don't recall those names. Does anyone remember any Nixons, Bruces, Potters or Kettles from the 1960's?

70's and 80's pubs and clubs

Also this link lists a number of books for old Small Heath - https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/small-heath-books-and-photographs.21646/