Search results

Close ! I grew up in Sladepool Farm Rd, the Highters Heath end. From my bedroom window I could look up Aldbury Rd.

I have'nt driven through KH since the mid-90s, sounds like a bit of a challenge now ! Where, on the Maypole border, did you live, Terence ?

It opened OK for me too. I have vivid memories of those respirators, the Mickey Mouse one for me and the baby model for my brother.

I have a dinner knife that was among my mother's cutlery. It is stamped "V(crown)R, WILSON, 60, KING St MANCHESTER." It's either from my Gran or G/Gran and very sharp !

Not so much a Claim to Fame as a near miss. The first London Marathon came through Woolwich Barracks and among the runners was Jimmy Saville, resplendent in a gold lame track suit. He waved at me (gulp !) but looking back he was probably waving at my young son who was with me !

Anybody else on here who also cancelled their membership ?

Nice area that. My parents lived just down the road, in Wilmcote.

Thanks for bringing back memories of my childhood. My Dad used to take me with him to all his contests, they used to be in all sorts of obscure places ! You've reminded me of how we used to go on his motor bike to Evesham too. Those misty mornings you've mentioned. We used to fish near Huxley's...

The impression I get is that, in the early days of the war, there was a rush of men, keen to 'have a crack at The Hun' before the war was over. With local units being fully up to strength the War Office started to allocate men to other regiments, that had been decimated in the earlier battles.

My great uncle, (died of wounds, 1915), was in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. A long way from Smethwick !

Alfie the window cleaner, I'd forgotten about him ! I think we connected a few years ago. At the time I mentioned you to my mother, no longer with us, she remembered you. The girl you mentioned, (Pat Firkins), back then, I think, actually, the girl was Carol Reid. She lived a few doors up...

I left early '56.

Yep, 210 !

There was a fuze setter mounted on the gun which was connected to a machine called, (I think) a predictor. The predictor estimated the speed and height of the target and constantly updated the fuze setter. The loader inserted the shell into the fuze setter before loading it into the gun, this...

Highters Heath Infants & Juniors was about the same distance from Pendeen Rd as Yardley Wood school.

I have a copy of 'Lander's War', (and recommend it). Can I help ?

Thanks for this. My granddad was in 10 RWR at that time.

I had a crystal set, in the early '50s. It came in a heavy bakelite case, I remember. I loved putting the earphones on and tuning odd stations in. One morning I heard a strange clanging sound and no music at all, what I heard was Big Ben chiming, continuously. Queen Mary had died.

Yes. Thank you Cpl Jones.

A smart Gunner ! I'm interested to see your Dad is wearing a bayonet on his belt, I thought it was only the infantry that did that.