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I dont remember the tea lady but times were different, who else ?, Bo Kelly rings a bell, Graham Mallinson, Linda Yapp, Simon Barley, Mark Weymouth, Tony Dry, some stayed with Lucas, others joined TRW, and others went to all sorts of companies. I think York Road now under Goodrich/Rolls-Royce...

I guess you knew Peter Holland as well its a small world in electronics, I think the GM i remember was Martin Williams something like that anyway, Sarah Robinson in Purchasing with Mark Dutton ?, good days!

You must have been there around same time as me. Simon Cardall was Factory Operations Manager, Mike Tomlinson and Bob Tench in Purchasing, Mike Burrows in Programmes, I cant remember the GM but he was a miserable sod I think ?. I worked with Mike/Bob on Rolls-Royce Trent, was there time of...

My mum was born here in February 1928, her parents came from Wales, and my mum's sisters lived at 229 Church Hill Road, Handsworth.

Yes I have photo of no.59 where my mum was born in 1928 will add it to the chat but agree with Lyn on google street view you can see most of the road, am sure others photos exist back in time to today.

My wife remembers being woken up by the hooter at the GWR engine works in Swindon when she was a child, living in old town, that would be about 1945 to 1950 then her dad moved to Tyseley yard as an electrician where he stayed until retirement around 1980

I saw the same article and an ex girlfriend of mine went to Harrison Barrow school, the names are Lyn Willis, Elizabeth Simmonds, Diane Nash, Diane Taylor, Linda King, and the Art Master a Mr Craven. It caught my eye because I knew a Sue Taylor who I used to pick up from school on my old...

It's nice enough as we live just off St Bernards Road in Mereside Way, it's close to the Olton Mere but most of the large Edwardian houses are still there though some have been converted into flats now. Obviously Solihull has changed greatly over the last 40 years since we moved here from Hall...

Times change don't they...Franny B died, I don't know what happened to Big Tom, Fats Black, Ringo and all the others from the Digbeth Old Crown...gravitated to Bogarts and from there to mc clubs...and yes those that were around in that time are now pensioners but some still ride bikes...great...

Thought it was same guy I hadn't heard the name in 30 years though takes me back to the Bogarts, Speedwell days and Mean Street Dealers at the Haven ta for the update.

Is that the same Pete Hayes who was in the Birmingham Cycletramps motorcycle club around 1980, they mixed it with the Sixtynine club who eventually became Outlaws years later. I'm dredging old names ?

Lucas Sports became the Lucas Automotive Electronics manufacturing site I think at 44 College Road, Perry Barr B448DU, unless I'm in the wrong place, I joined that site in 1986 after leaving Great King Street.

Thanks to all on this forum for giving me a much better idea of what my father may have been involved in work wise when he worked at Cannings in the Publicity Dept around 1958-1962 but I don't know exact dates. His name was Jeffery Dry, then aged around 35 and on his 2nd job. He told me some...

I was born at the Sorrento, 18th June 1954, I don't remember it much but with my mum having lived in Park Hill and my dad the same and in Church Road too it still meant something driving past it most days, lots of old Moseley now gone to rubble including our old family homes at 9a and 11a Park...

I used to visit Hilver when I worked at Lucas Aerospace Shaftmoor Lane in 1980s, I remember the pulpit, would have been a lovely home back in the 1900s when my Great Grandfather and his family lived in Church Road. Glad that the house was kept as it was by the professor.

do you have any photos of the Dingle as my Great Grandfather died there on 26/12/36, I just wondered what sort of nursing home it was ?

Interesting as the letter I have from Dorothy Jefferies to Lucy Taylor is from 80 Oakfield Road Cannon Hill, dated 29/10/1908. I wonder if same family spread across 2 houses. It must have been a nice area back in those days near to Moseley on city outskirts.

Thanks for info, it's 80 not 84 but I ran the 1911 census and agree it must be a teacher student friendship if the ages are right and it's the same Lucy Taylor. I will take a drive to look at the houses after lockdown.

Am hoping to track down relatives that might remember Lucy J. Taylor of 84 Oakfield Road, a friend of my grandmother Dorothy Louise Dry, nee Jefferies of 32 Forest Road, Moseley. I have a letter written by Lucy to Dorothy dated October 1908, so presume they were at Waverley school together as...