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Wasn't Billy Pond's ballroom in a largish redbrick building set back from Green Lane surrounded by gardens cum allotments? Did anyone on the Forum go to the St John's Ambulance Association (as it was in the early '60s) first aid demonstrations in the big assembly hall beneath the ballroom? db84124

Any photos of your teachers? This is part of a photo taken in 1958. ....... It shows the best teacher in the world, Mr Barlow of Bordesley Green Junior School. In the closeup he's sitting and in the large photo he's proudly standing beside his English folk dancing group. He was...

s-d boy, Thank you ......... now I won't be in bed before 4.00am AGAIN!!! What wonderful sites!! Doesn't 7824 look miserable? She hasn't seen soap and water - let alone polish or an oily rag - for months, and the sheer shame and blow to self-esteem for using such a "pretty" engine at the head of...

Hello again 6024, (please excuse me if I call you be your nickname!) thanks ever-so-much for your fascinating link. Very interesting to read the paragraph "it took the company (M. & M.) ..... another four years before starting any engineering work. Eventually, in April 1964, it entered into a...

' mornin', Mike, As soon as I saw my email notification of your posting, I got the confirmation of my middle-of-the-night flashback! ...... Manchester and Milford! The dates coincide too. Even the date of its arrival in Aberystwyth almost agrees with my research. Thank you. As you ask, I came...

Can anyone help me please? Does anybody know what the two "M"s in this railway company's name stand for? We are talking about the mid-nineteenth century (1860s). db84124

Stitcher, Your last sentence is the very reason I am a member of this splendid Forum ........ Thanks again and keep 'em comin', David

Thanks very much, Stitcher. I've been reading the Wikipedia article about the Valley for the last 10 minutes and your paragraph is more finely detailed than the equivalent section in the encyclopedia. Congratulations! Tomorrow I must find the time to read Peter W's thread-opener and a lot of...

Hello again, Neville, I found this on the web : ....... and you're absolutely right - I never doubted you were not - the caption says, "Duchess Of The Night" No. 46228 'Duchess Of Rutland' at Rugby Midland with a Wolverhampton-Euston train in the early 1960's". I just wish I'd've seen her...

I for one would love to have more information about the City's involvement in mid-Wales. Please put my name down! D.

Neville, Yes, I should have written, "reading the second engine's nameplate - if it had one - was nigh-on impossible due to ..... etc." because it was rare to see two named engines heading a train. But, uhmm excuse me, aren't you confusing the headboards bearing the name of expresses - which...

Stitcher ...... THANK YOU! I haven't travelled through the Elan Valley for 53 years but your snaps - nay, photographs - bring back its magnificent splendour. Thank you. David

Yes, Ernie. The first picture is definitely an artist's impression as you said during our chat. In fact, there's a signature in the bottom right-hand corner (Vernon, I think???). The fourth picture also seems to be a drawing, but - like the first posting - probably done from a photograph; this...

Although I've occasionally stumbled on this thread in the past, I've never read it thoroughly. Having done so for forty minutes, I'm left perplexed. Several members have written about their train-spotting past, and mention the Kings, Castles, Halls ..... and Manors?? which frequented Snow Hill...

I too can remember 45688 Polyphemus hauling "The Midlander" on numerous occasions. I used to cycle across the Cole floodplain from the Ritz cinema, Bordesley Green East, and watch it hurtle by along the embankment just 600 yards from Stechford station. Fond memories!! I feel sure it was...

Four fascinating photographs, ragga. Thank you. But how strange to to see Photos #3 and #4 .............. not a steam engine in sight! Interesting to think that the photographer took them purely for their environmental/ architectural aspect. db84124

"I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here." — Frank Woolworth

Good morning, Ernie, As no-one answered my question in Post #6, and thanks to johndavies's excellent link in evergreen's thread "How much would it cost now", I can now tell you that 1d in your pocket in 1894 would have had the buying power of £2.01 in 2008. As the official British government...

New ideas sent in, Jim, are simply the cherry on the cake. It's YOU, your right-hand man, Warren, and the other members on the administration side of this wonderful forum that give us the cake we all appreciate so much. Thank you one and all, David

Go for it, Graham!! Give your self a well-earned rest from all that pedalling!! David;)