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The iconic K6 red telephone was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V in 1935. Around 60,000 examples were installed across Britain, which is why the K6 has come to represent the red Telephone Box. Over 11,000 K6s remain...

Well folks, it's the 140th anniversary [thank you google] of the birth of Sir Giles Scott. If you were a scouser like me you would know that he designed Liverpool Cathedral - a truly incredible building reflecting civic pride at its' best. More popular he designed the K2 Telephone Box in 1924...

Yes I did! But it was about adulteration of food etc products in the Victorian/Edwardian period! Truly awful what manufacturers got away with. I though it it was clear from my original posts that I was taking about RECENT changes arising from takeovers by MULTI-NATIONALS of traditional...

You are probably right about the size/inflation angle. But "health & safety" as a reason for changing ingredients on popular items when taken over? So HP sauce made in Aston was so dangerous that when a dutch company took it over they immediately changed it. And do you really think Andrews...

The best ever Stones recording!!! but early Beetles comparable I think. But then I also rate Gene Vincent at My family find my taste in music very odd. Hey, but who cares, I like what I like. From Superdad3/76yr old rocker.

As well as a lot of good old products vanishing from the shelves, it disappoints me how many traditional products have been "bought" up by big companies and immediately altered for the worse. HP Sauce was never the same after taken over by the dutch - darker & doesn't taste the same. Brillo Pads...

My mouth is watering already! Can't beat good home cooking using proper ingredients My wife's makes chips like this: 1. Cut potatoes into chips as usual. 2. Parboil. 3. On an oven tray spread x1 table spoon of cooking oil. Sprinkle with sea salt, cayenne pepper, paprika, mustard powder & black...

Came across this book on ebay. Fascinating history of the school until 1969 when it moved into the new building on Oxford Road. The origins of the school arose from meeting of the Freeholders in June 1827 when it was agreed "that it is expedient in the present state of this chapelry, that a...

Henry Pooley & Son was famous for having a virtual monopoly of making weighing machines for railway goods yards etc. Many still in existance especially in preserved railways. Head office moved to 72 John Bright Street. Company was absorbed by Avery's in 1913 but continued to trade as a separate...

My apologies. My mistake. My wife's relative was Jane WILDEN not Walden. Also the settlement took over 316/318/320 and not 216 & 218 as I said.

Might be of interest...........just a slight chance that your Walden's are related to Jane Walden mentioned below. My wife's great, great grandfather was Joseph Stevens. Joseph was a hinge manufacturer with a factory in Hanley Street. He married Jane Walden in 1841. Joseph died in 1887. At the...

Bit remote from the original thread but......... My wife's great-grand aunt's father was William Shelton Terry who was a publican at 26 Bishop Street in 1881[PH on map?]. On the corner of Moseley Street was a Methodist Chapel - perhaps where the foundation stone mentioned by Robert in 8 above...

Street furniture [well almost!]: A few years ago O2 installed this mini phone mast and associated cabinets on the pavement in our road. Never mind that it is in a conservation area [phot 1]. O2 are now applying for planning permission to erect a 20 metre high mast in the public car park in...

According to BCC website planning permission has not yet been decided on. Let's not forget that this occupant has built a garage, installed block paving, ugly gates etc etc ALL ILLEGALLY. This is the real issue not the location or otherwise of the post box. Occupant shows utter contempt for...

One of the best TV programmes we ever watched was the original "All creatures great and small". Loved the programme and recognized many of the scenes from numerous Yorkshire Dales holidays. Particularly memorable was the scene in the round cow shed - been in it when we stayed on the farm...

Yes, almost next door to Prince of Wales. A specialist antiquarian bookshop, probably why he didn't like the looks of me - a poverty struck ex student! Lowe Brothers was one of the oldest of Birmingham's antiquarian bookshops. Originally in Newhall Street [well it was in 1910!] Here's a...

How strange. I had an almost identical experience at the Lowe Brothers secondhand book shop which was in Moseley. This would be about 1968 - went in to look around and saw some books by Boswell in a locked case. asked if I could look at them & was told rudely they were too expensive [for me] and...

UPDATE: Planning application for Moseley Station and associated works was approved today. No traffic lights; it's going to be a roundel, which is similar in appearance to a roundabout so the planners say. I'm not sure but I think a traffic roundel is just road markings. Having crossed the...

I think it is very easy to condemn the 11+ with the benefit of hindsight and 70+ years of gradual progress. But let us not forget what it was like before the 1944 Education Act and its implementation. The act gave everyone the chance to go to grammar school or the new technical or commercial...

I think the King Edward exam must have changed. No music questions in 1986 or 1989 when my two children passed. What a can of worms mention of the 11+ opens! I was born in a rough, poverty struck part of Liverpool: Toxteth. I passed the 11+ and frankly going to the best grammar school in...