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Now lets go to the Austin Motors Factory which, in 1918 was making aeroplanes for the war effort - again with lots of female labour:- Fuselage Stitching Fun in the Carpentry Shop!!! Spray Painting Painting Distinction Markings Group photocalls! Airframe Manufacture Canvas Doping...

Some more under the same heading:- Shell Weighing 1918 Soldering Cigarette Tins 1918 Shell Gauging 1918 Shell Brass Plug Manufacture 1918 Priming Pin Sorting 1918 (what a belter of a job this must have been.....) Copper Band Cut Gauging 1918 Gauging Fuse Manufacture 1918...

To the first world war now, and the highly dangerous job of working in the Birmingham munitions industry. Most have no captions from the IWM website as I guess this info was highly classified at the time:- 1918 Aeroplane Frame Tug Welding 1918 Turning Gas Mask Angle Tubes 1918...

Next to Flint Green Road Nursery in Acocks Green 1942:- And - this is how those terry nappies were dried out.....

Anyway - now to some photos - firstly from the Carnegie Institute on Hunters Rd / Nursery Rd (Lyn's back yard) - these were from 1941 when it was being used as a war workers nursery:-

I have spent the last few nights browsing through the photo archive on the Imperial War Museum website www.iwm.org.uk/collections. Its only a tiddler (so far over 1 million images online it says......) but even a simple search on "Birmingham" looking only at those records with digitised media...

Don't worry about the accuracy of the captions Steve - I can often not decipher my own captions on my own negatives that I shot meself......

And cats in the garden too:-

One of our chickens in the garden yesterday:-

Three contrasting local views this week:- Firstly from Sutton Park on Monday evening - lovely sunset and crescent moon:- Then a lovely tree in blossom from Newhall Valley Country Park yesterday:-

I also remember seeing a Vulcan (the last one to fly) over Sutton Coldfield some years ago - superb site. Not as loud as when Concorde overflew East Drive at Fort Dunlop back in the 80's though - that WAS loud as it had just took off from Birmingham Airport (I think it could only fly with a...

Brilliant - like going back in a time warp!!

What a thing!!!

Nearly-last quarter moon in the early morning haze today:-

In the early 1980s my old school St Georges Comprehensive performed an old style musical hall night in the upstairs function room at the Bartons Arms (I doubt a school could perform a show in a pub these days but.....). Here are a few photos - I will post some more tonight:-

Hi Lyn - its not in the MACE archive, although I assume you had already checked this.

Hi Richard - very close! Sutton Park station is on the left - the site is is now the Royal Mail sorting office. Sutton Coldfield station is in the middle, and Sutton Town station is on the right. 5 minute walk between each.

A closeup from a different angle of the signal pulley wheel mentioned in post #19 above:- Now I have looked at this wheel on a number of occasions - and until today never noticed that 6 ft to the right of it is another one:- Just goes to show there is always something else to find - and...

This building is remarkable considering it was closed 100 years ago - and still survives reasonably intact in the middle of a very built up area. The user of this ticket would no doubt have exited through this very building after spending their elevenpence:-:- The user of this eight-penny...

Next - Spaghetti Junction of rusting roof support bars:- Roof flashing trying not to go the same way as the roof:- Rotting roof beam complete with rusty nails and many colours of moss and mould:- Very new life on a very old wall:- Another window with branches growing through it:-...