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Hello Dave and welcome to as you say a grt site we like it, i,m sure you will find what you,re looking for here. i was born in Cromwell st and went to loxton st and charlie Arther st as did a lot more of us on here happy days. click search top right hand side nechells and...

Don Everall, did,nt he run coaches, as well way back when? amazing how the old Grey cells come into use when the memories jogged grt picture though of elmdon we remember i our youth Derek.

Bang on ragga,it did lead to donkeys, we were in that area on donkeys the one day, and there again, if you can cast your mind back there were some grt big tufts of grass that we called the camel humps,we were jumping on them and there was a wasps nest and we were stung all over they were up...

Hi CHRIS B nice story, was,nt the sweet factory opp where you,re describing, or was that later, the road that went to the radleys just through the tunnel on the right hand side there was a small tunnel that water passed through, we used to call it the jumping bridge because it was water in the...

Hi JOHNT if you track back you can find several photo,s taken at the resent 70th birthday of Yardley wood bus garage, there was quite a lot posted it is even on flicker and i believe you tube. regards dereklcg.

Hi and welcome to the forum MALPASS ,you,re among friends here. I suggest you either click on the home at the top left or put what you,re looking for in the search top right see what turns up. regards dereklcg

fantastic picture,s stitch,i,ve been up and over many time,s but i can,t remember when i was young, in what 98 possibly the last time i was up there, once you got your peddle to the metal you kept going. Derek

hi stitch,Liverpool, middlesborough,hull,immingham,grimsby,felixstowe,folkstone,Southampton,and i think that's about it it was after the waiting about that then put the mockers on it,you could be there for a couple of days that,s when freight forwarding companies started to do the do,when you...

Hi ya sticher i,ve put my three penny worth on here before now i was a heavy goods driver till last day of June 1999,had some grt time,s i had a sleeper some could pic and choose where i stopped even been stuck out hours at oldbury, nine time out of ten i would stay at a truck stop,as the old...

well there you go then strange but true i used to go to lea village with terry and one of the jeys and one of the cassons i have it on good authority drinks in the white hart,also one of the kettles as it goes lives 5 doors from my sister in Tamworth, we were all in the same class,there,s...

i think that,s the lane that went down opp mirfield across the meadway, did you know the jeys kettles and the cassons?

Hello Graham,i,m with you mate my teacher was miss lumsden & miss benbow, also i remember the wooden huts do you remember the total eclipse of the sun when you were there i was there from 1953 till i left and went to Charles Arthur st into the seniors. Mr white was our teacher towards the end...

Hello annveitch, i lived in kelynmead rd knocked about with the round family used to go to lea village school with terry lived by the legion, i also worked at beals shop down the bottom had a paper round there,also helped the co-op milkman & Wilson,s bread man. Used to go over donkeys at the...

very good Arthur,seen a lot before but well worth another look. thanks for posting. regards Derek

Hi mayfield grt thread. loxton st infants and juniors (1953) Charles Arthur st seniors lea village secondary modern. i have photo of me in my school blazer for lea village if it helps? regards dereklcg Edit. Link to Loxton Street School thread is here...

lea village secondary modern. i have photo of me in my school blazer for lea village if it helps? regards dereklcg

Oh how we remember that place, my wife contracted TB in 1971, well she must of had it a long time before that, as every month,we would when she had as it was in days gone by her coarse, s spend in the general hospital. Not a lot they could do get married have a child that will sort you it was...

i remember that Lloyd why don,t they do it now, is it to do with health and safety? Derek

is that frost blower in there or frothblower? Derek

Last one one of my dads old lorries must be during the war with the lights blacked out? Derek.