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Some one said he should be honoured, a knighthood perhaps ? I don't normally agree the way they hand out honours willy nilly to undeserving people, usually sports or show biz but in his case I would certainly approve. Eric

I enrolled in 3 courses in the 70's, Art History. Life Drawing and Water colour painting, forget whether I paid or they were free, probably paid. I enjoyed every one. eric

Cannot remember neighbours names except a shop top of entry called Staggs, had 2 friends nearby Geoffrey Harding and Alan Lock who lived opposite brewery went to school together 1943/44

The Garrison was very close to our PO garage where we refueled our vans and had them serviced (I was a PO telephone engineer) and occasionally popped in for a quick half, I also painted a watercolour of it for a member (I forgot who). Eric

The R101 was based at Cardington in a huge hanger, it was were I completed my RAF basic training in 1948, we were told if you ran round the hanger 4 times you had run a mile. Eric

I remember a huge statue of Lucifer in the Museum and I loved the pre-Raphaelite collection in the Art Gallery, supposedly the best collection in the world. Eric

Bob, I lost count of the candle stick telephones I disposed of whilst replacing it with the modern telephone, they are worth a lot of money now by collectors, I removed 3 from the old Vicarage in Church Lane Aston in late 50's (now long since gone). Eric

David, I was an Aircrew Wireless Op in the RAF for 8 years, 1948 till 56, but the last year I was 'grounded' because of weak eye sight and was posted to Bletchley signals centre using teleprinters, is that the same as telex, I remember the messages came on paper tape with a 5 digit code...

Pedrocut, had a look at my presentation wallet (from the Union ?)it says July 1987 so I must have been with BT 3 years, I know the first year I applied for early retirement they said no, had to wait another year and they added 6 years to my service for pension benefit, so my pension was based...

RobT, do you know the year Four Oaks went automatic ? It was one of the Exchange areas I never worked on. I finished up as a TO on maintaining customers automatic systems, mostly in the Black country Eric

I joined PO Telephones as an external engineer on leaving the RAF in 1956, I could be wrong but I believe FOUr Oaks at that time was still a manual exchange, the rest being automatic. Over my 30 years plus service I covered most of the exchange area shown in the above map. I took early...

I have done a few paintings of the Aston Tavern both historic and modern. It as rather sad memories for me, it was one of my late Dad's 'locals' and he died of a heart attack on leaving the pub in the 60's (he liked a drink, he smoked and he was over weight). I remember visiting it myself when...

Blews St, No, it was on Electric Avenue, it was where I first worked (in the drawing office) on leaving school in 1944. Eric

I have these 3 court yard paintings hanging on my wall, was thinking of putting them in our next raffle but not sure anyone would wish to have a painting of back to backs on their wall, they are from members old black and white pics, locations note on back of painting. Eric

Pedrocut, your map covers 3 places where I lived, (1) 1/69 Queens road, 1st entry down from the brewery where I was born 1930 left 1935 (2) 84 Queens road, opposite where I was born where I went to live with my gran in 1943 when my mother died in Shirley until I joined the RAF 1948 and (3) as...

Pic 3 interested me. Corner shop on left was run by Doreen's (my late Wife's) Aunt Ann, a general purpose/grocery shop opposite the Girls school Aston manor who came in for sweets, pop etc, I am talking now of the 40/50's, we lived in a back to back first entry down from the shop (1/128) from...

Does any one now why shoe repairers are called snobs ? We have one in Chelmsley Wood shopping Centre, he also cuts keys. Eric

That was cheap, Virgin Quoted me over a £100 return a few years ago ! Eric

Thanks Pat, I knew Hilda when she was a telephonist at Midland Counties Dairy, I was the PO Engineer who maintained their telephone system. Edna told me she had passed away. Eric

Are there any like me who have not used a train for years ? My last train journey was to London 20 years ago from Bham Int to take some paintings to an exhibition. I like train travel but find the cost prohibitive. This was not always the case. I dread to think what HS2 will cost to travel on...