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Way back in the early sixties the Garage I worked for in Ryland Street reconditioned Wolverhampton corporation transports Gardner engines, I can remember collecting the old engines and delivering the reconditioned ones back to one of the Bus Garages in Wolverhampton, maybe it was the one...

I've never smoked but was caned at school and a letter sent to my Mother saying I a had been caught smoking. Unfortunately I was standing with a group of older boys who were smoking so also got the blame.

There was certainly one in the old Bull ring market hall, I also seem to remember a land/sea mine also being there.

Very interesting though I also recognise little but there again it has been 40 years since I left.

You certainly deserve to be proud of both your parents and especially yourself.

Used to love journey in to space, seem to remember them landing on Mars.

Never realised it was also called the creeping unknown. Just started to watch it on you tube, couldn't stop laughing.

Had our first TV for the Coronation. Remember being scared out of my wits watching Quatermass, something about silos and melted down bodies if I remember correctly.

The 1a was my favourite as it took me into town from Ryland st on my way home from work, 51 and 52 were my next favourites s they completed my homeward journey.

Occasionally caught the 118 from Perry Avenue in to Town but the extra fare often persuaded me otherwise.

You can take the predictive txt off in settings but to be honest I usually find it quite useful, it certainly teaches you to check your post before posting or to edit with ease :)

The Perry Barr underpass opened in 1962 as per previous post but it was a long time before the wallsall road widening started.

I certainly don't recollect any work starting on the Duelling of the Walsall road before the early seventies. I left home in September 1970 from off Perry avenue and still visited my Mother, who moved to Rowood drive Solihull, well into the early seventies.

I worked for Stocklands from 1964 until middle of 1967 then part time driving until 1969. Stans stardom was related to his singing pennies from heaven in the Grand Blackpool where other drivers threw their money to him for charity. I bought Stans Morris Isis off him, would have been 1966...

Thanks Viv. I seem to remember the railway lines at the far side of Perry hall playing fields so presume these would have been the main line to/from Perry Barr station.

I was born in Perry Barr and lived there, by the parks, for 25 years and never realised there was a railway station there.

The problem here in Cornwall is that even though the houses are priced from app £150000 many of the jobs are minimum wage, the carer business is one of the few that is booming due to the amount of elderly retirees but is very poorly paid, which prevents youngsters from obtaining a mortgage. So...

Inflammable gas being rarely found in the collieries of South Staffordshire, candles were usedby workmen throughout the mine and, in which Mr Redmayne's opinion, the disaster wascaused by the practice occasionally followed by the workingmen of separating the bundles ofcandles by burning the...

Friend of mine worked on the door at the queens head late sixties, I covered a couple of times when one of the other doormen were off but didn't enjoy the cleaning up when it closed for the night.