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  1. john70

    Where is this? 99

    Great photo Mike, and we think the traffic is bad these days, whats the betting someone at the next bus stop will get on and say "why are late".
  2. john70

    Help With a Medal Card

    I am having the same problem also, Albert Haylor, Royal Engineers, 60116
  3. john70

    Birmingham on Sea

    Hi. Mike. I realise its awkward in the week to get down here, with work etc. you will make it one year I am sure. All the best. John.
  4. john70

    Birmingham on Sea

    Have been to see the carnival in Burnham to-night, was fantastic as usual, its in Weston next Monday, the 17th, at 7 30 if anyone can make it.
  5. john70

    Euro Bus Expo 2008 at the N.E.C.

    Thanks for the video,s BaMMoT, interesting stuff, nice to see a mixture of oldies there also.
  6. john70

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    I am very pleased to hear that, as you say, visiting the battlefields, and seeing all the wonderfully kept cemeterys there does have a very profound effect on you.
  7. john70

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    Thankyou Terry for your information, I respect what you say with your knowledge of WW1. His elder brother died at Hooge in June 1915 and that by all accounts made him join up allthough he was only 17 when he died. Thanks again. John70
  8. john70

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    Hello Wendy. Thanks for your reply, I have been on thr CWGC site and have the details of where he is buried and the date he died, I would now like to find out where he was taken prisoner of war, and where he died and what of. but dont know how to go about finding that out. John 70.
  9. john70

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    My great uncle Thomas Haylor is buried at Niederzwehren cemetery in Germany, he was only17 when he died on 2nd. August 1916, and I think he fought at the Somme, was injured there and taken prisoner by the Germans and transported back to Germany, is there a way I can find out exactly where he...
  10. john70

    Midland Red at Digbeth

    Thankyou once again Tardibigge, great photo,s, will look forward to the B C T. ones. Regards. John70
  11. john70

    Midland Red at Digbeth

    Thanks again Tardibigge for more great photo,s and memories, Kind Regards. John 70:)
  12. john70

    Highgate Road the former B.C.T. Tram and Bus Garage

    Hi. BammoT. I expect you have seen this photo before of Highgate Road garage, bombed in Nov. 1940.
  13. john70

    Where is This? 90

    My first thought was Meriden, but I know thats not Brum.
  14. john70

    The Tram Departing from The Tranport Museum

    Thanks for the video BammoT, great piece of driving I thought, I am personaly pleased to see the tram go also, often wondered why it was ever there to be honest.
  15. john70

    Buddy Holly & the Crickets

    This is a flyer advertising the last show Buddy, The Big Bopper and Ricky Valance did, it was after this show that the light aircraft went down killing them all.
  16. john70

    Birmingham buses

    Thankyou Tardibigge for the great photo,s thats very good of you, sorry for the delay in replying, I have been away for a week, 296 was a favourite bus for me. Kind Regards. John 70.
  17. john70

    Birmingham buses

    Hi. Mike. Thanks for the photo and info. the pic. you put on here of 296 earlier this week I have made it my screensaver, hope you dont mind, am away for a week now, up to Berwick on Tweed with our kid, show him thier buses. LOL. John.
  18. john70

    Birmingham buses

    Thankyou Lloyd for sending those, bet it was a nice atmosphere there, good to see 4031 repainted now and the D7 out. john.
  19. john70

    Birmingham on Sea

    On the local news tonight they said No. 6 has been chosen, and it should be up and running by June 2010.
  20. john70

    Birmingham buses

    Hi. Mike. I would have loved to have driven 296, thanks for the photo, that is going to be one of my favourites, I used to catch the 24 to work every morning at the Warstock terminus in the 50s,, the Leylands and in particular 296 were allways great. Did you go to Whythall last Sunday for...
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