Recent content by Pedro42

I took my motorbike test on a Lambretta Ldb at the test centre in Sheldon. I didn't know the area well and when I was sent off to do a circuit of the local roads, I got lost. When I eventually made my way back to the centre I wasn't expecting the tester to leap out in front of me for my...

These are a good starting points in this forum--- https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/birmingham-air-raids.43244/ https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/map-of-w-w2-bombing.46272/ Peter

Here's my try

Here's my try Lyn

Is this them, based in Mount Street? https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Heeley_and_Sons

Here's another but I don't know why it keeps coming up as 'pardon our interruption'...

There are a number of corkscrews advertised on ebay with James Heeley's name on but I haven't found any that are silver hallmarked eg...

Here's my try ........

Here's my attempt ............and one with colour added

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...