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  1. frederick

    Graham Webb

    Graham, All four parts are very good, i wish there were more to come. Fred
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    Embassy Roller Rink Walford Road

    Graham, I remember us both being worried when we past the Harp.
  3. frederick

    Embassy Roller Rink Walford Road

    Phil, Well done that saved us scraching our heads.
  4. frederick

    Embassy Roller Rink Walford Road

    The film Pathe news i don't think that is the Embassy roller rink if you look back at page one there are photos of the inside of the Embassy and it doesn't have a banked outer area and the safty rails are different, have a look see what you think. i think it is another rink.
  5. frederick

    BSA Armoury Road Small Heath.

    Graham, I think it came from playing with Meccano and then we moved onto the real nuts and bolts with can engines all good stuf.
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    BSA Armoury Road Small Heath.

    A friend of mine worked at the BSA as a tool setter/fitter in the learly 60s we took the cylinder head off my Morris Oxford and he took it to work with him, he had the head skimmed gold star valves and double springs fitted the port were opened and polished intake manifold opend up and polished...
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    BSA Testers.

    Louis Dalby, well that sounds like it could be the same Bill that lived in Leamington rd he was Irish.
  8. frederick

    BSA Testers.

    have you noticed they didn't ware a hard helmet in those days.
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    BSA Testers.

    Sticher, the man that lived in Leamington rd was Irish did you get to speaking to Bill.
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    BSA Testers.

    Stitcher, It was you that told me the name of the man that lived in Leamington rd, and that photo of him on the scrambler looks like the man i could be wrong it was a long time ago. have a look at page one and scroll up.
  11. frederick

    BSA Testers.

    Louis Dalby, that looks like the Bill Nicholson that lived in Leamington rd were he lived with his parents so he could have moved on, Leamington rd was demolished in the 70s so he could have moved to Gospel Farm rd.
  12. frederick

    Fisher & Ludlows factory

    Carol Watts, The social club was brilliant i would go their dancing every saturday night they would have a differant band each week and they all had good dance tempo.
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    Fisher & Ludlows factory

    judydog, i worked there from 1968 to 1979 as a sheet metal worker i worked in E block before going to I block the experimental dept making prototype car bodies, i don't recognize your dads name.
  14. frederick

    tower ball room

    Stitcher, i did see the door men in action one time i was their no one hert he was quikly run out of the door backwards and didn't come back in.
  15. frederick

    tower ball room

    Stitcher, good photos you don't see many of people inside the Tower. we will have to watch that Alf i am glad i got their before him.
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    tower ball room

    Stitcher, you lucky man she looks a pritty little thing.
  17. frederick

    Graham Webb

    Graham, this doing more than the speed limit it just goes on you were very fast as i know i have been out cycling with you and i had no one to talk to you had gone, which bike did you rap round a tree out Earlswood way it was so bad it was U shaped.
  18. frederick

    Graham Webb

    Graham, i do remember that bike with a fixed wheel and no brakes, you had another one didn't you the one that you would over take me in my car going to work you would be out training before you went to work. and which one were you done for speeding on for over taking Police cars.
  19. frederick

    Graham Webb

    Graham, who has been looking after that bike of yours all this time.
  20. frederick

    Graham Webb

    hi GRAHAM, IT HAS TAKEN A LONG TIME BUT YOU GOT THEIR IN THE END GREAT STUFF.
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