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Small world isnt it Bob, my dad died in 2019 in Redditch but stayed in touch with a lot of his old colleagues and enjoyed chats about his "old times" at work and growing up in Moseley in the 1920s & 30s..thanks for saying you knew him at Cannings...Cheers, Tony

Hi Bob, it was Jeffrey Dry, he worked in the offices and knew Sir Ernest...was only young then he would ave been about 33 in 1957, it was his 2nd job after leaving London University. Died now I'm afraid!.

My dad was at Cannings from about 1954 to 1960 so might have known him, shame the way old Birmingham engineering companies all disappeared, Cannings, Lucas, etc...my dad was in the offices as advertising/publicity manager, he left to join Beatties in Wolverhampton in 1961.

I dont remember Johnny Windsor, did you mean Jimmy Cowboy ?, yes Pete Heyes, he went with the Cycletramps but is dead now, I remember Fats Black, Big Tom, Ringo, Franny B. Lots of them all past now I think, some still around with Outlaws and HAMC, what happened to Dave Collyer the old vicar ?.

Think the Cycle Tramps became Outlaws mc didnt they, so did 69mc as I remember Frenchie, Fluff and others from those way back days, funny how people still around 40 years on...

Just as an aside the Wolvo became Hells Angels England...still have the Penn clubhouse I think..

Sorry, was 1906 not 1907 but whats a year that far back ?, I was wondering when Waverley secondary became a grammar school, oh and I mixed up addresses for them but i will go back through my family history stuff and see if I have anything else thats pre-WW1 on their old schooldays in Birmingham...

Hi, I think my interest was much further back than that, see the scanned details from when my grandma was a Waverley pupil way back in 1907, she lived at 24 Lloyd Street Small Heath at the time and met my Grandad at school, he lived at 103 Golden Hillock Road. Attached the school prize details...

Thanks to those who replied with an area map and photos from around 1906. I checked back through the 1901 census and found that my great grandad and his family lived there so 7 of them it must have been very tight in a 2up 2 down terrace. My grandad moved to Moseley at some point between 1901...

Agree with much said, I was a young trainee at Times Furnishing opposite the rotunda in 1972, very different times, on starting I was told to call the General Manager 'Sir', and remember customers coming in for Bits and bobs. Mind it was only a stroll to the nearby pubs which as an 18yo was...

If you mean Etta McKenzie-Campbell she was the site buyer when I worked at Mere Green in 1987, she had office in the main Engineering dept, i moved to College Road later then other places but yes LMG was a good place to work...if you didnt upset Alec McDonald the Operations Manager that is...

Talking of old Birmingham schools and awards I have a copy of Historical Studies by John Richard Green dated 1903 (Macmillan) presented to my grandmother Dorothy Jefferies in 1906 for 1st prize in History in VI form at Waverley Road Secondary School with HG Drew as Headmaster. I'm not sure...

Indeed it does...I remember the old Lucas alternator factory at Marshall Lake Road and the Lucas lighting factory was at Walkmill lane Cannock. I think Shaftmoor Lane also made these, too many to research if you think Lucas Industries grew to encompass everything automotive and aerospace over...

I thought it was Tesco but your right it was a supermarket of sorts I heard...

electronic engine control units for lighting, thick film, various really, it was really a daughter plant to the mother plant at College Road, much smaller than CR, i think its a tesco supermarket these days as Lucas was sold to Varity, then it became TRW, then ZF bought it all out. Sad another...

Lucas made electronic assemblies for the car industry, customers were Rover Group and others, the Chief Engineer was John Lewis, and the General Manager was Alex McDonald. I worked there for a while in purchasing around 1988 with Etta Campbell, the site buyer.

TRW Technical Centre, Shirley, Solihull, as it was in October 2008

I left ZF as it was after the TRW takeover in 2015 having worked there since 2010. I heard the ZF technical centre as it now is will move to Blythe Business Centre. Pale shadow of Lucas days since I joined the company at Shaftmoor Lane in 1985. Thats progress folks !!