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News about Tony Hancock I have read today in The Guardian (internet) that BBC Radio 4 is to recreate the lost episodes of 1950s radio sitcom Hancock's Half Hour, with a new cast including Pirates of the Caribbean actor Kevin McNally in the title role originally taken by the late Tony...

Some information from the German side. A white Knight who fought for The Dark Empire. Adolf Galland, The most respected, and Germanys highest scoring Luftwaffe pilot during The Battle of Britain. After the end of WW2, Galland becames friends of people like Johnny Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck...

Thanks Astonian, you are right about this special group of soldiers. Sorry to hear that your relative failed to get in. Hitler and The German high command detested the commandoes, because when ever they went in to action, they caused mayhem, death and destruction, whenever they attacked German...

Re: The Commandoes Another story about the Commandoes and how flexible they were. This force was originally sent to Crete to re-take Maleme airfield, but by the time they had arrived there, a full scale retreat was in progress and the island was being abandoned. Freyberg V.C. the island...

Memories from "The Few" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaN7B4NwmrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxEK9DL6W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5c6_iv7SHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30MpS5mMQc Memories of Douglas Bader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3mdMlC7BAA

This is a documentary about The Spitfire, it features a number of our Fighter Aces (Sadly, I believe they have all since died) from The Battle of Britain. There is a lovely cameo about Birmingham, and they have interviewed The Brummies about their experiences with this aeroplane and the long...

See below, it shoes the people involved building The Spitfire, and the pilots who went in to action with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8rFPLN_Fg Action before The Luftwaffe launch a raid and afterwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbYh1RBgrq0 Dog fighting over Britain. The 3rd...

When planning for The battle of Britain, Gòring (Head of the Luftwaffe) said to Hitler " Give me 4 clear days and The R.A.F. will be destroyed by The Luftwaffe". When the battle turned against the Lufwaffe, Gòring had a meeting with his fighter station commanders and changed the tactics, which...

The Full story of The Battle of Britain and casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

This is the epic story as told as it happened, but with a slight twist by modern day historians who looked at it. They found out the effect that The Spitfire had on some German pilots who had been shot down and captured in Britain, by taping their conversations secretly at a mansion where they...

Hi Pictures of Brookfields that I thought would of contained Icknield Street as well, unfortunately it doesn't and would be off topic so I have cancelled them. Sorry.

Hi I have put some pictures up that show a lot of Icknield Street absolutely cracking, but it also shows my e-mails and eveything, so I have had to delete it. How is the best way to get these photo's back up. The Captain

Hi I lived in Icknield Street from about 1967, the number was 207, it was opposite The Royal mint, in a shop. Before I lived at 35 Hingeston Street, I remember Wrensons shop on the corner because there was a street light outside it. Opposite was Mary Paste's The friutter's, to the right was...

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Carolina I think it is in Handsworth on the Soho Road, nearly opposit the library, I never went to The Revue bar The Captain

Has anyone mentioned "Steelys" early 70s(I think that was the name), it was situated opposite New Street Station, by Thorntons Chocolate Cabin inside that arcade that was there, I cant remember the name now. I would make my way to this club, it wasn't very big at about 22.00 on a Saturday night...

If there are any relatives/friends out there of Alf Tombs or Bert Evans, any contribution about them would be very welcome. The captain

The Wormhoudt Massacre May 28 1940 This is the story about The 2nd battalion Royal Warwicks, 4th battalion Cheshire Regiment and soldiers of The Royal Artillery as well as French soldiers in charge of a military depot who were taken to a barn in La Plaine au Bois near Wormhoudt and murdered...

Paul Thanks for the information about your son, he's following in the family footsteps. Its a fair old journey from Brum to there. I did 2 weeks there as a T.A. recruit ( I was aged 36 at the time I still think I was the oldest recruit to get through), I must admit most of the time spent there...

Did any of you guy's Royal Engineers serve your time at Cove or what it is now called Gibralta Barracks?