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Hi Dave, you can get a view of the outside from googlearth street view which says it is July 2014 Bryan

thanks for the info on this our family was associated with this from its inception with my grandfather as organist and my father as church secretary.

i was remebering Soldier , Soldier, wont you marry me, with your musket , fife and drum and realising that there was never any discussion on the fact that these were social comments on the times

my memories of lewises is going to the remnents sales with my mom and gran. standing outside the basement doors waiting for them to open and then the mad dash when they did, us four kids going to stand where we had been told, out of the way but where mom knew where we were, and watching mom and...

In the junior school the headmaster always entered assembly to a piece of classical music, and I can remeber singing those somgs at school , great memories , and I can remember the hymn that we used to sing at the end of the school year it started with Lord dismiss us with thy blessing...

What about the electric vans that the co-op laundry at Clay Lane used to use. There was always a large humming when we walked passed at the w/e from woodcock lane across the canal bridge.

thanks phil have just had a quick look and think i shall have to get special dispensation from her indoors to sit and follow that thread ( perhaps i should wait till she goes out) am sure that ther would be other info in there somewhere

I have just come across letter written by my great uncle to my grandmother from the fire station at lingard street. I knew he was a fireman although he was dead before i knew him, unfortunatly i only have a date of 30th August with no year so would like to try and get some idea of a year as the...

My brother worked there as well and he had the front end loader which had a concrete block on the back which just had two hooks on it and used to hang on a bar acros the link arms and was forever dropping off at the most awkward moments usually in the middle of the bristol road. Great days

I seem to think that the building half way down the tree lined route was a natural history museum. my childhood memories of cannon hill are of going to see the banana plant on afternoons out with my grandma

I also worked as a tractor driver for the parks in the mid seventies but from Billesley depot and originally on the allotments ploughing and rotovating, I then moved over to the mowing grass and had both fergies and Fords, and was the first one to use a hydraulic driven mowers. Didnt move...

in the mid seventies the theatre was run by the then amenities and recreations dept of the council ( used to be the Parks dept) and somehow myself and a colleague used to perform the duties of stage fireman when the theatre was being used. It was a really arduous task and involved sitting on the...

thanks bobbygee mind was (is) going a bit but it was Goodfellow

hi folks yep i'm an ex bordsley green tech man 1964 -1969 as was my dad before me. the head master was Brown who was reeplaced by the Deputy head DH Jones.Killers name was surname was Gilbert and he used to wear yellow specs some days as he suffered from migranes The old building are still the...

what a mouth watering reminder, one always tried to lick the inside out before breaking the chocolate shell

Hi Lloyd Never really thought about the weight of coins collected daily think that copper coins were bagged in £1.00 and silver in £5.00 ( if you can remember there were 240 old pence to the pound so to bag in £20 would be a bit much ) they were paper bags and there was a nack to folding the...

Thanks Lloyd Didnt realise that there was an official vechicle for this job as far as my recollections go they just used to use an ordinary bus with the wicker hampers stacked on the platform, I seem to remember that there was only a couple of staff,on of which drove, and an inspector who used...

just a schoolboy I was just a schoolboy in school at bordesley green at the time, but remember going on the number 11 bus to stetchford so that i could gawk as the bus went over the bridge at stetchford station.

Hi folks thanks all the thought provoking threads. My grandad was on the buses for 35 years upto 1961 when he retired with a canteen of cutlery ( which i still have ), I remember him driving the "bank" bus from Acocks Green Garage to the bank in the village with the takings which were in wicker...

er mason boys club was doing some geneology research and came across cregoe street as a possible address, put in a search and found this site, not only that but I then find that I actually worked out of E R Mason Boys club in the early eighties on a government sponsored scheme. Not been back to...