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The original line to Paddington from Birmingham ran through Oxford etc and thats what gave it the name, the Great Way Round. As far as I am aware there has never been a need for reversal through Reading

What a loss the Wimbush bakery is, their lard or dripping cake was a marvellous and came with a glazed top. I remember first getting them in the cake shop on the corner of George Road and Slade Road, Erdington. Opposite Donahue Builders. We have been trying to make similar ones recently with a...

I went there several times after it opened. I know Denis Lotus's manger insisted on taking the admission price on the door personally as he was concerned Denis would not be paid

No but she told me later she didn't want to see me again as I had no tax disc on my car

Its very likely he would have known Oscar Deutch and Michael Balcon as well as the Joseph family. Many Jewish businessmen had interests in cinemas

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268159/20-countries-with-the-highest-rail-network-density/ The above makes good reading, look at the size of our country, and that mileage is after 6000 mies of cuts. We have a very dense system in a small country its always going to come with operational...

We in this country are only now realising that rail transport is the future, unfortunately we are 50 years behind the times and the investment! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Boraq Even Morocco is ahead of us and we invented railways. Beeching, Marples and Macmillan got it wrong!

My son went to London and back today for £32, its cheaper than driving, congestion charge and parking. In fact a car park for the day would cost you that

Just had to give a shout out to the Empire Fish Restaurant beside The Locarno in Hurst Street, not only great chips but where I had my first Doner Kebab! Run and owned by Vassus, retired now, last known living in Moseley. Its now a Dixie Chicken. I once had a stuck up pretentious girl friend, I...

From Birmingham Snow Hill you would have changed at Reading for Portsmouth with a journey time of around 4 hours. In May 1943 on a Sunday the first train of the day is shown as the 12.47 am! to London. calling at Leamington Spa, Banbury,Oxford, Didcot, READING & London. The Great Way Round

The AID would have been very busy in Birmingham from late 1939 onwards due to aircraft production at Castle Bromwich, Longbridge and Elmdon. Also all factories that produced aircraft parts had to be inspected (parts and machinery) and there were many in the Birmingham area. Eric Holden, one of...

I have a very rare wall time table for May 1943 for Birmingham Snow Hill Station if you want some timings but and this what makes is very rare, is that it is Sundays only

The say the definition of old age is when you can know longer understand and participate in the need for change. The only thing we can really say about tomorrow is it will be different from today. For you to have a tomorrow someone had to change today.

I remember Roger Bic or Blick from Kynoch, especially at the Salford Bridge track. One evening I was struglling towards Drayton Manor on a training ride and the biggest group of cyclists ive even seen came past me at speed and Roger was in the middle

Dont forget one of the world greatest manufacturers of ornamental glass was F & C Osler in Broad Street, Birmingham. The son of the founder also paid for the Bells of Big Brum! Several lovely pieces of Osler Glass are exhibited in BMAG

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh were in Sutton Coldfield in August 1957 for the Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Park. There is a delighful picture of the couple sitting in the back of their Limo while at the petrol filling staion in Eachelhurst Road, Walmley in the Sutton News Archives. Not...

I got two roads named in Birmingham by writing to the council and explaing the industrial history of the site and amazingly they agreed and named both roads!

Just to the right of that picture was a 20 speed limit sign, its in my garden now! The last full wall timetable from Snow Hill is also on my wall now too!

Anyone remember CYRIL HALL who worked in the Signal & Telegraphic Office at Snow Hill Station and also had a green grocers shop opposite the College Arms public House on the Stafford Road.

I can remember Mr Jones saying at Metchley Lane that no one was tackling properly. He made about half a dozen boys line up and said he was going to show us all how tackle properly. He tackled the first boy (C stream) very hard and he continiously screamed until the ambulance arrived, Jones had...