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Were they the buses that had very few seats and lots of space for strap hanging passengers.

George and Hilda

Waited "hours" at the bus stop in your second picture! How often a 15B would come along with a three bell load!

In 1950's I worked in the electroplating industry, we used various solutions containing nickel, copper, chrome, cyanide. I know that in 1960's new regulations meant an effluent treatment plant had to be installed. Would this mean that until this treatment plant was installed all this industrial...

I lived in Garretts Green and so could have staggered downhill to the tech BUT always got sent to techs elsewhere, Aston, Hall Green, Matthew Boulton (Suffolk St.), North, Gosta Green, so despite walking past GG daily I never ever went inside. Provided work for local moms for years, catering and...

My wife shocked to fail Eng Lit in '56 too, but was surprised to pass history.

I suppose Birmingham has been diverting the Severn to the Humber for years! Via Elan Valley!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/never-mind-the-h20-this-scheme-to-move-water-from-severn-to-thames-could-be-the-new-hs2/ar-AA18Y8I2?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f967ef3de1d4437a97cccd3f58632409&ei=13 A proposal to divert the outflow from Minworth from the Tame to the Avon, to top up the Severn...

I watched this youtube presentation which gave an encouraging account of what can be achieved. Compare this with the sad picture displayed in the recent Paul Whitehouse programmes "Our Troubled Rivers"

A link to "What do you watch on TV" March 2021 #544 et al. would be relevant to this thread. As that thread is closed I can't create the link.

Nay, that's when it's time to hop on the plane back to Kent!

St Michael and All Saints appears to be an active church. There will be church wardens who will have access to burial records, there may be someone who has mapped these burials and know if plots have been recycled.

Happened to be on "Talking Pictures" this evening. First saw it in a school lunch time film programme around 1954. Poem by W.H. Auden. Just had to buy a mail bag set up for Hornby Dublo train set!

Have a memorable day!

Well and truly off thread, but only a tad off recent posts! I notice Channel 5 are giving their programme "The Great Fog of 1952" an airing this evening at 9.00pm. A memory of what it was like when coal was king.

KD New St.

Remember the Pinnick's shop in Green Lane Small Heath, I think there was another in Balsall Heath. Peter Pinnick, the son was an apprentice at Wilmot Breeden, Umberslade in late 1950's

The New St KD was what is the jack Wills shop in the Google Map Link ie RHS of Cannon St.

Picture in #119 is Colmore Row opposite Snow Hill Station. Known as "the goldfish bowl" in 1960's.

Been with Talktalk for ages, most times it just works. Damaged my landline while gardening on a Sunday morning, Openreach arrived to fix it 8.00am on Monday. Broadband failed recently for whatever reason Openreach had it up and running within an hour. Talktalk call centre staff can be a...