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Hi, I remember seeing the 2-8-8-2 Beyer Peacock 69999 on the Camp Hill Line some time between 1954 and 1956. Quite an impressive looking locomotive but as stated before, not popular with the crews. Kind regards Dave

Hi, Royal Nord was a Belgian bike - 1950s to 1960s Kind regards Dave

Hi, I remember there was an Army and Navy store in Union Street, right by the Tax Office. Only down the road from Cherry Street so I wonder if this was the one you worked at? Kind regards Dave

Hi The Angel Fountain seen here in its original location. Kind regards Dave

Hi, I thought the era when all the soldiers wore peaked caps went out well before WW2? Happy New Year. Kind regards Dave.

Hi Nick, Many thanks for the info. My recollections were from the middle 60's to the early 70s when I worked at R. Whites just up the road. I remember getting an Xmas turkey from the management one Xmas, and it was just as slaughtered. One of the staff who lived locally took it to a local...

Hi TommoCo, Oh yes, I remember him very well, - he put me off going voluntarily to dentists for the rest of my life. Now I only go when the pain exceeds the fear. Kind regards Dave

Hi, Back in the 1960's and early 70s I sometimes used the 96 bus which went down Hingeston Street, and I was struck by the fan shaped patterns which were in some areas of the cobbles which formed part of the street. This suggested that at the time when they were laid down the street must have...

Hi, I worked in the city centre during the early 60's and once a month I visited Hollingsworth's and treated myself to a packet of Lucky Strike. Happy memories! Kind regards Dave

Hi Covroad, I think there's a slight error on the map, showing the Elite in Garrison Lane when it was actually on Bordesley Green on the corner of Crown Road. I lived in the flat above the tobacconists (Walker and Walker) on the other corner of Crown road, and that was no 36 Bordesley Green...

Hi, I remember seeing it at Norwich (32A) when it was shedded there around 1959/60 Kind regards Dave

Hi, I worked with a lady called Dorothy Thornton at Metro-Cammell in the 1970s/80s who had worked at the Castle Bromwich factory during the war and was involved with the electrical wiring of the aircraft. Kind regards Dave

Hi, I lived on the corner of Crown Road in the mid 60s, and I can't remember anything resembling a road there. Kind regards Dave

Hi, And one taken by me on the GWSR at Toddington in the early 2000's Kind regards Dave

Hi. Just inside the gate to the right was a smallbore rifle range. This was still in use in the early 60's, and was used by a shooting club of which I was a member. The rangekeeper there was a Mr Flook ("Flookie"), and he lived at the big house.

Hi, Yes, that ties in with my memory of it from when I lived in Stechford. I used to get off the 14 bus by the Bulls Head on my way home from work in the early 60s, and pop in for a quick one. Kind regards Dave

Hi, I remember the Bulls Head from the 1950s, and into the early 60s. I think it was renamed rather than rebuilt after that. Kind regards Dave

Hi, I don't think anyone has mentioned the concrete/brick? footbridge that joins the two halves of the park on the opposite side of Bordesley Green East from the Ritz. Kind regards Dave

Hi I have the Tun as equal to 4 Hogsheads , 6 Barrels or 2 Butts making 216 Imperial gallons. The smaller measures being the Pin at 4 1/2 Galls, the Firkin at 9 Galls, and the Kilderkin at 18 Galls. The type of tundish I remember using in my time as a bar/cellarman was like Pete's picture in...