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  1. Bob Davis

    Sutton Park Station

    I thought that this was on the cards under the reopen Beeching cuts lines scheme. On youtube plenty of videos of the line. Bob
  2. Bob Davis

    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Of course Bob
  3. Bob Davis

    Sutton Park Station

    I thought I had read that this was on the list of requests for reopening of Beeding closes and was a probable. Go to Outube and there are lots of goods trains movements. Bob
  4. Bob Davis

    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Have you noticed in the photos of public houses on the forum, how many are on street corners a point really made stronger by the pictures above? I was always aware of this when on the 5 bus going in and out of town up and down Summer Lane. Has this been discussed ,dissected anywhere on the...
  5. Bob Davis

    Hobbies

    The machine he bought was made by EMI, I think, I financed about 20 of them over Devon, Cornwall and Somerset over a two year period. They were a punch card operated unit and cost £K6 to £K7 per m/ c and became the go for unit at the time. Mods sorry if I have diverted from the thread. Bob
  6. Bob Davis

    Hobbies

    How long did it take you to train the worms and do you have to have specially bred ones or will common or garden worms do. Seriously though what a super bit of kit, it takes me back to the fifties and sixties when all the lathes had to be operated by an attendant human and there was thar oily...
  7. Bob Davis

    IN OUR GARDEN 2023

    Can anyone decipher the little sign just by the Western class unit? Bob
  8. Bob Davis

    Goosemoor Lane

    Remember it there until I left Court Lane/Goosemoor Lane area December 1959 Bob
  9. Bob Davis

    HAPPY 70TH VIVIENNE14

    Lucky the family ĥaving a baby sitter staying Bob
  10. Bob Davis

    IN OUR GARDEN 2023

    My wife had just finished planting some Bellis Daisies when we had a torrential downpour. Temperature 10c Bob
  11. Bob Davis

    HAPPY 70TH VIVIENNE14

    Happy birthday Viv, have a great day Bob
  12. Bob Davis

    Hobbies

    A favourite walking and çycling route. We were there the weekend he did this. Bob
  13. Bob Davis

    Aston Villa history

    And the great Johnny Dixon ah! Happy days, Bob
  14. Bob Davis

    Aston Villa history

    Can you see me I am ìn this pictures somewhere. The stand the changing rooms are in. August 1952. Walsh scored for Villa and Lishman and Oakes for Arsenal. This was the last season when Dad and I watched regularly as i had started work and also discovered other pursuits, including...
  15. Bob Davis

    Kardomah

    Reading through this thread, I realised that there has to be an outside chance that two or three BHF members were sat in there, possibly next to each other, not knowing each other on the same day. My friends and I regularly met there Fridays and Saturdays to plan our weekends etc (dancing...
  16. Bob Davis

    Birmingham Cinemas

    1943 Bob
  17. Bob Davis

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVEM

    Have a good day Dave and don't forget the photos of the birthday cake Bob
  18. Bob Davis

    Practice thread 2021-2024

    Aaaaah!
  19. Bob Davis

    ITS Eric Gibsons birthday today.

    I just remember Eric today's your birthday. Hope you have a great day Bob
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