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1950s brown varnished edges on the stairs, stopping short of the thin stair runner held in place with stair rods. Pride of place to a 'Birmingham Bear' from Chad Valley!

Lancaster PR1 No gun turrets, used for aerial surveys of Africa post October 1946.

I visited the Canadian museum along with a relative of my relatives who had been a Lancaster tail gunner. As our vetran moved towards the tail gun a young man in a suit detached himself from the wall and moved in our ex-gunners direction. "Excuse me sir. It may be an aircraft to you but it is...

Those were 'Supataps'. We had them in our house, perhaps around 1960. My dad constructed our kitchen worktops using 'Formica' glued with 'Evostick' to blockboard, supported on a skeletal framework made of ramin square-section hardwood. Dad considered that a proper 'engineering' wood and he was...

The BBC would probably use that photo to show that the roads have 'always' been full of traffic! They do like re-writing history. My memories of skipping include girls being given fancy wooden-handled, ball bearing mounted (why?) ropes soon discarded in favour of cheap plastic washing line...

Google StreetView September 2020

The 1962 Birmingham Airport booklet, page 7, shows JOJ 261 unloading at the airport. The destination indicator shows 'AIRPORT' while the number indicator is blank. Although BCT buses were used for the service I believe they were under contract to BEA so didn't have a BCT service number. The...

Aren't the vent pipes attached to the front wall of the building?

The best part of 50 years ago I was in digs in London. After a while I had a tummy upset and the doctor prescribed such a mixture. My landlady said she would put the bottle in her kitchen cupboard, "so it would be handy for meal times". Imagine my feelings when I went to said cupboard and found...

The trains will use a 25kV a.c. overhead system so that they can run on the WCML to destinations beyond HS2.

Strictly speaking there will be no engines, the trains will be multiple units with powered axles throughout the train. A steel wheel on a steel rail can only produce a force at the rail head equivalent of a fifth of the wheel loading which severely limits acceleration and braking performance if...

National Grid video of Windsor Street Gasholders. My great-grandfather was the manager of a small gas works in a small town. There was a single gas holder outside the boundary wall of the gasworks that survived the closure of the works after a high-pressure main was extended from a nearby...

A 'Covid Consequence'? Must admit it has been some time since I have been near New Street. Just goes to show that Modern Railways was right 50 years ago when it said trams are just vanity projects. (Edinburgh had to close its modern trams to dig up the roads to move underground services). Buses...

Isn't Stephenson Street near enough for you?

I thought West Country roads were in 'canyons' because the farmers hedged and ditched the roads to dissuade 'the hunt' which otherwise had the right to roam where they will? Road levels are quite fascinating. Take for instance the Georgian town houses in Bath. If the back garden is taken to be...

"Yardley, in Worcestershire, distant three miles. The road to this village lies up Deritend and Bordesley, then crossing the Warwick canal, you leave the ruins of Bordesley-house, and when through the turnpike, there being three roads you proceed along the centre, in which there are good...

Why do it when you can get it from here? (Saltley School - Upper 1953) It might be that more detail can be scanned from a copy held by a forum member in which case it would be a big help to know where to 'aim' for a relative rather than scan and stitch the whole. Surely to be useful to the...

Jersey cows? Pull the udder one, those are pullovers.

You should be able to download the whole school photos for the 1950s here, as Brummie a long time a ago previously posted. [Having viewed the picture that you want take a note of its file name then follow the instructions to download the full-size image. If you are using Windows you could use...