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Was "K" dept. once "D" dept. Graham ? if so I only recall Joe Haynes the AEU convenor , when "D" dept was broken up in the mid 60's I was transferred down to "G" dept. I think you are correct with the location of the hardening shop but where exactly in "A" dept I cannot recall. A name of Bill...

Hi Graham, ground floor was "A" Dept. then going up was "B" Dept. then Canteen, then Planning Office and top floor Drawing Office

I still call it a railway station Old Boy the term train station supposedly comes from the USA but when I had holidays in that country it was always refered to as the railroad station. The beeb are the worst for introducing new terms for things. One of the worst I have heard is on WM on traffic...

I think that B45 only came into being when post codes were introduced. I attended Turves Green school and that was B31 and Cofton Hackett was only just up the road.

Hi Carolandsteve,I knew your dad when he worked in "B" dept.Following all the upheavals at Turner's in the 1970's he came to work at a company called Maurice Tool Co. Ltd. which was at that time based on what was then known as Kings Norton Factory Centre. It would have been in the mid seventies...

I recall when I was a nipper that there used to be a carnival every year around June time during the late 40's and early 50's but don't know if was anything to to with the progamme shown.

It is not a bridge Vivienne but the roof of New Street station before it was buried under the Pallasades.

I reckon it could be Severn St or Gough St. as the old canopies of New Street station are in the background.Trying to remember what garages they were on the photo.

RGL as he was known within the factory was certainly still working at A.E.Harris a year ago (see post 14) but I am sure he remains as Chairman and has handed the MD position to a person within the organisation, but he is the sort of man who will be carried feet first from the factory.

The sphinx was the mascot on,I think all the Armstrong Siddeley cars, but I would guess that the car in Edgbaston, which was very upper class pre 1960, would have been a Sapphire or a Star Sapphire, they were the top's of the range.

Tales of the Alley Cat was the back page of NME and I think it must be 60 years old as I was buying in 1958/9

I think the number books would be Ian Allen's " The A B C of British Railways Locomotives " rosie.

Nice picture Elizabeth had a good few happy hours playing darts in the bar there in my late teens, the beer was always a bit iffy as it was an Ind Coope house, better known as Ind Coope and Allslops.

Nice pictures there Phil, took me back to my youth had my first ever pint in the back room of the Oak at the age of a very mature 16 year old ssshhhhh:friendly_wink::friendly_wink::friendly_wink:

The Davenports pub in Pershore Road is The Three Horseshoes I think astonian, not sure what they sell these days, British Oak was M & B.

All I can say to that is "hear hear" had it not been for those brave young men who knows who our masters might have been.

Looking at some photo's taken by the Butlin's photographer in one of the dining rooms there is on the table a bottle of OK brown sauce, forgotten all about that one and wonder if the next to go the same way in the future might be HP !!!

Not sure if bread was baked on these premises as the TASCOS bakery was on the corner of Charlotte road and Maryvale road, always used to have the delivery vans backed up for loading in the afternoon.The buildings are still there and there was a company called Rubberplas occupying most of the...

I am amazed at this news as whilst I was taking my daily walk on Friday I noticed one set of doors open on the frontage and what looked like contractors working so I just thought things were moving to open the Clifton up again.Wendy, you are not sceptical in my opinion it seems to happen with...

I stand corrected ladylinda, I was always under the impression that a family member had to work at Cadbury to get a house on Bournville estate. Just to illustrate my point I used to have a pal who sadly died at a very early age but lived with his dad in Old Barn Road,one of his parents had...