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That name doesn't ring a bell with me but as he worked in so many clubs and with so many people I would think highly possible, he then went to work for British Actors Equity as an area organiser for Midlands and South Wales.....and was also in the VAF in earlier days as were many, I recall many...

I just came across this thread with all the names I remember so very well....so many worked with my late dad who was a comedian by the name of Jack Delaney....I met so many of these people mentioned in previous posts and I can recall walking in very early hours of the morning from The Little...

I wonder if they will arrange the 2nd mortgage for the fare ?? ha ha.........

Will we be seeing the NEW Midland Blue Pullman coming into Snow Hill like it used to ??? very doubtful as it has M numbers on it so....I guess New Street will be it's call.... or Maybe Curzon Street when it's finished......

There was a Brian Neale I remember working at Colmore Depot in Cherrywood road.....he was the spares stores counter boss......was he also a family member ???

I used to use them to buy various items for hairdressing as I worked at Bernard of Mayfair in Corporation Street, everyone there used the company...they were in Edmund Street from my memories of shopping there and I still have a pair of scissors I bought there in 1962......still in use today as...

Yes I read it and have just sold it on....my grandfather used to live right by the depot and used to spot from their attic room.....c1905......a bit before Ian Allan brought his train refs out...lol..... I seem to recall he and his brothers logged their kops on the walls and ceilings in pencil...

21E ??? ....... it was 3E in my spotting days way back in the 1950's !!! I had a friend that was a fireman there and he worked mostly on the Harborne line....... he had some interesting stories to tell and such a shame he never put pen to paper.

Did you ever know a guy there called Geoff Bye ??? I'm sure he worked there....lived in Selly Oak

the gauge will be 00 gauge

I think it's amazing what the members on here find in their archives......and a colleague and I are still researching the Longbridge Halesowen Branch line and we both are astonished at photos coming out of the woodwork so to speak, what have you got hidden away ?? my colleague is planning a...

No Way certainly not mono photos................I was going on a manufacturers sample swatches of Cobalt Blue......but I think each manufacturer has their own ideas of what they name the colours they are making now in their range

Cheers Ray...what I've seen of Cobalt Blue is too light, I've seen so many guesses over the years of what the shade of blue it is...the most recent one was Blackberry....but who really knows ????

That bus was often on the 2b route and we often caught it...and YES it had a plaque in the lower saloon at the drivers end telling it was on show at Festival of Britain.........does anyone know the name of the blue colour that the City Transport buses were painted in....WMPTE was Oxford...

Very good DVD from Tennents Trains at Hayley Green....done by John Tennent...well worth the money and has some amazing footage of this railway branch line

RTP was in Bennetts Road Alum Rock/Saltley when we supplied their vans and cars, I always remember having to take one of their vans (a Morris LDO) that had a prang round to the repairers in Silver Street Kings Heath (Karspray) ... RTP was a good customer of Arnold Genders !

They always had their vans and vehicles from Arnold Genders in Kings Heath, when I worked at AG we always supplied RTP Crisps with their vehicles as the Genral Manager there was friendly with the owner of RTP....I think they were Villa supporters too....we supplied a lot of cars to Aston Villa...

I lived in one exactly the same as that in Selly Park.... 4 Selly Avenue to be eaxct...It just came to me my mom said ours was an Arcon type......she though Canadian but I looked online and found they were an American company....https://www.prefabmuseum.uk/content/history/one-arcon-story

21B Bournville Engines........ they used 58138 and 58143 in the 1950's..... lovely little Johnson 2F

And there is a great DVD of the line that is sold by Tennents trains of Halesowen...it was done by John Tennent......a very worthwhile purchase I might add.......in my collection of course