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Not to outdo Lloyd for saying your granfather worked at Cadbury's, 5 Kingsley road, was/is and was what was known as a Cadbury house, now known as Bournville Village Trust (BVT) and you had to work at Cadbury to get a property in one of those properties.

This may help anvil man it shows the current view of King's Norton and an Ordnance Survey map dated 1921 https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-b/broadmeadow/

I think you are spot on there Astonian it will be a challenge for the new owners to change the image of the pub. It gained a bad reputation a few years back and that has stuck, maybe the new owners will drop the name and hopefully make a sucess of it but I think it's a big,big risk.

This is how the Beeches looks today all lower windows fitted with Sitex panels and the whole area fenced off and plenty of concrete blocks to deter vehicles entering the site. On the bright side, word is that it is going to receive a massive refurbishment during the next three months and will...

Are these the ones (that's if this link works) https://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=1&pid=6021#top_display_media

Turner Bros. used to do an amazing calendar every year in cartoon style, each month was a caricature of the staff in any of the particular departments and were also in full colour.Unless you were a customer the chances of receiving one was remote, however I had a contact in the Despatch Dept...

Can I have a guess that the line you mention is the Churston to Brixham branch Alan?

Thanks for that Alf, just added it to my favourites:courage:

That,s a cracker Postie, Henshall Hall but I can,t quite make out the reporting number.

Yes this is a British company founded in 1990 by two men and their headquarters are in Willenhall.

The name Les Seale rings a bell for me Carol, any idea what dept. he worked in and what years.

The name seems to ring a bell Graham but I am running out of sources to ask, the only person I am still in touch with is Brian Seymour. He used to work for Reg Eagles in A Dept. making the tangent benders and other machine tools, he moved down to G shop in the mid sixties making drilling jigs...

I know the one brothers name was E Frank Turner, his first name was a closely guarded secret, the other brother was only known by his knickname of "Shaggy" but Frank had thrown him out in the early days.

Signed, particularly as Poundland have forbidden staff wearing a poppy,excuse is that they must not wear any adornments to their corporate clothing, conclusion,Boycott Poundland.!!:upset:​

Don't forget Mike when the dentist says "open wide" he really means your wallet, not your mouth.;););)

I do know someone who would know him but he is on holiday until tomorrow and he does not have a mobile but I will contact him at the end of next week.There is a chap I worked with at Turners who posts on here and his screen name is Goffy, he may have more info.

Sign of good news Mike but my local ASDA has increased both petrol and diesel by 1p a litre this week !!!!

I think I can recall the name, carolina I worked there between 1958-1967, do you know which dept. he worked in?

Mike the oil companies have always operated a cartel unofficially just as OPEC used to, at least prices were more stable when they used to fix the price, now we have speculators(gamblers) who trade the oil and are only interested in making a quick buck for themselves.The question I always ask is...

The irony here is that whilst the crude oil price has slumped recently so has the GBP against the USD which is as you know the currency for oil. If the oils companies dont get you the one way they will soon find another.