Recent content by Stuart Watkins

Malcolm, thank you and no problem will look forward to seeing them.

goldie, I have replied to you wonderful post a little further down the page

Great post goldie what an insight, Dad started at the Battery around 1958, Vic Gumbly like Dad lived in Kidderminster, my sister has informed me in the last couple of days that Vic and his wife were both tragically killed in a boating accident how long ago this happened I don't know. In a...

Malcolm Thanks for your kind words about Dad its good to know he was popular at work, he had a new car every other year if my memory serves me correctly, he wrote one of them off on his way to the Battery one morning just before Christmas around 1979/80, the Police officer said he was really...

Hi Peter I have sent you a message

Hi Malcolm, I am so so sorry for my late reply to your message, please accept my apologies, I have not been on the forum for a few years but tonight I had a personal message from another of yours and Dads colleagues Peter Whiteside. I honestly thought I would never know, let alone converse...

Granddad 25 (From Weoley Castle) with his Flight Engineer 1943

Thank you Lyn.

Have been talking to Dad earlier about the battery, yes Big Gee a great many folk were under the impression that they made batterys or related products, though Dad said they did make products for the Marine and more so ship building industry's copper tubes in particular. So true about the...

Thank you everyone for the reply's and warm welcome, my interest in Granddads time in the RAF started around 1996. I remember Nan's photos of him with his crew and a couple of the aircraft he flew in as a young lad but there significance never became apparent until my adulthood, I cannot imagine...

Hello everyone, I have very recently joined the forum I hope you don’t mind me telling my story, which I hope maybe of some interest to you and especially with anyone from the area with an interest in RAF Bomber Command. I must admit I do not live in Birmingham and haven’t done so since the age...

Hi everyone have just joined the Forum after searching for info on the Battery, fascinating stuff reading some of the posts in this thread. My Dad, Ian Watkins was a metallurgist he worked in the Laboratory from the late 50’s until he was made redundant around 1988/89. I really don’t know much...