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    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Mike, Does your dad remember those fascinating Turner Brothers Calendars? I think they depicted various caractures from the factory, and tools in cartoon fashion, I still have a notebook somewhere but would love to see a calendar again. Goffy
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    Kingstanding

    Dave, on your picture titled "Circle 2" There is a gentleman riding a early invalid carraige, I remember someone riding one of those vehicles around Kingstanding when I was a younger, It could well be him. they were strange vehicles, propelled by hand operated levers which were pushed and pulled...
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    First Record Bought?

    I remember the first record I ever bought, It was Diana by Paul Anka. Even though I had just been bought a "Portadyne" record player with autochanger, I still insisted on buying the 78rpm version because all other records in our house were 78. I continued buying the 78 versions until I was...
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    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Thanks Mike, It did look like him. you mention Joe Oakley, he was the foreman on "D" Department which was situated directly over "K". I worked under Joe when I moved up to "D", did my machining training there. Thanks again, Goffy
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    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Nice pictures Mike. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but in the second picture, the gentleman on the back row with the hand on his shoulder, looks like Harry Oakley, the forman from my first department, K shop. ?
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    Kingstanding from 1964

    Hello, I was born in Kingstanding back in 1943, we lived on Kettlehouse Road, I lived there actually until 1964, when I got married. My wife is also from Kingstanding and lived in Kingsland Road. Goffy
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    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Graham Hi, That list of names is amazing, one name on there is Bert Bentley, he went on to manage "Timings Tools" in Brownhills and later to become Sales director, he sadly passed away a couple of years ago. One name that is not on the list but did work there at around that time was my late...
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    Queslet Road Great Barr

    It probably has now Jean, I think the Queslett was a Ember Inn or something the last time I went in there, some sort of quiz night going on, you can't gat a quiet drink these days Goffy
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    Queslet Road Great Barr

    Hi, Pubs along the Queslett road are or used to be called :- "The Old Horns" on the junction with the Beacon Road. "The Trees" on the junction with Collingwood Drive. "The Deers Leap" on the junction with Cooksey Lane. "The Queslett" on the junction with Aldridge Road. The...
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    buses

    Great pictures Mike, seems like only yesterday. sure I recognize the Clippie ?
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    buses

    Thanks Mike, did'nt know such things went on. bet they were not to pleased with people throwing them on the floor after leaving the bus. I would be interested to see photos of your collection of bus conductor equipment. Goffy
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    buses

    Thank you Lloyd, Those are the tickets I remember, the small tear at the bottom I think was made when the ticket was pulled from the spring holder. Goffy
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    buses

    Hi Mike, I remember the bus tickets in your picture, but the tickets I was referring to where much older than those. Probably about the same size, but were a single ticket, not off a roll. these tickets were carried by the conductor clipped, by wire springs, into a wooden holder. the conductor...
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    Where is This? 42

    Hi I will double confirm Kettlehouse Road, I lived there 1943 - 1964. Thats Kingstanding Circle in the background, and to the right behind the row of posts is the Odeon Cinema, now a bingo hall. Opposite you can see the sign for the fish and chip shop, always called in there after a night at the...
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    The Kingstanding

    I used to live in Kettlehouse Road, and as a lad used to play around the old "KIngstanding" pub collecting beer bottle tops to make badges. yes those pictures show it exactly as it was in those days. The Kingstanding traffic island was also fenced in with pathways running across amongst the...
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    'Andy Carrier

    If my memory serves me right, that old women, used to stand by the steps leading up to the fish market, and there was usually someone there selling dancing dolls and the like from a suitcase.
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    buses

    I used to live with my parents quite close to the 29a bus stop in Kettlehouse Rd Kingstanding, and the bus tickets, do you remember the bus tickets, they used to be discarded as passengers got off the bus and invariably finished up in the front garden. It was always a bonus to catch the 29a in...
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    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    I have just made contact with one of the first friends I had at Turner Brothers when I started work there in 1958, Through "Friends Reunited", a "Bob Edwards" who is now living in USA. Although we didn't know it at the time, we both left the company in 1965.
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    Lister Truck

    They had at least 1 of these trucks at Turner Brothers in Cliveland street, It had'nt got any form of seating and was driven from the standing position. Goffy
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    Birmingham buses

    I remember the Birmingham Corporation buses with their open platform at the back, you could run after the bus after it had left the stop and jump on, and how many times did you wait for the bus to stop before you got off. I used to get travel sick as a child and spent a lot of time on that...
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